About
I’m a graduate student; very long in the tooth. Somehow I got the idea that if I was in my department long enough they’d go ahead and just start calling me Professor, and start paying me like a professor. 
So far it hasn’t worked.
I’m a pipe-smoker, who enjoys a wide range of tobacco, but whose first love are Balkans. Don’t try and tell me to quit, unless you’re a pipe-smoker as well, and can talk first hand about it. I hate to say it, but the stats (if you believe those things) actually show that pipe-smokers live 1 year longer than the average adult. 
So much for killing myself. Oh wait- I ride a motorcycle and work with deadly chemicals as well. Woops.
I love to read and have fallen in love with “Jack” (C.S. Lewis)’s writings. His theological works are his best. Tolkien is a close second, as well as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s work. Recently I’ve stumbled upon Terry Pratchet’s Disc-World novels. I highly recommend them. Each one I pick up has been a lot of fun to read.
Finally, my newest love has been the fountain-pen. I currently have 2 of real worth- a Pelikan m150, and a Parker “51″. (I have a few others lying around that are still good writers, but which I don’t use daily.) Slowly I’ll build a small collection.
I know you are likely to be a cute sexy young woman interested in long-term love and have come to my awesome blog by word of mouth… and therefore, I hate to mention that it appears that I’m spoken for… at least I haven’t been able to convince her otherwise of late… no matter how hard I try. Hopefully that won’t turn you away from these wonderful wordsmythied pages… [tongue firmly implanted in cheek]
fwade said,
October 5, 2007 at 10:04 pm
Grad student,
I love that you covered Hurricane Dean in your blog! I was a bit surprised to come across that entry.
I wanted to invite you to visit a proposal I have at ChangeThis.com for a new
(hopefully revolutionary) approach to time management. The link is
http://www.changethis.com/proposals/1064 and if you like what you read, please
encourage its conversion to a full Manifesto by clicking on “Yes, write this manifesto.”
The dry, theoretical ideas that I hope to pull from can be found on my blog at
http://2time.wordpress.com
I was a grad student once… an experience I plan never to repeat! I love to learn,
but the environment sucked so badly I could not bear another day…
I’ll be reading your blog (esp. the productivity topics.)
Francis
lachlan said,
April 28, 2008 at 7:11 am
mate ur website is great. u have and ads i can click to support ur site? or any other ways?
Allen H. said,
June 25, 2008 at 5:36 pm
Hi Lachlan,
I’m sorry.. I’d love to have any forms of ads here so that I could make a bit of revenue, but WordPress.com sites aren’t allowed to be commercial, as far as I can tell.
So, that means there’s no good way to support this little blog.
And, well, it also means I can be a bit more anonymous, and be a bit more free in disclosing my “confessions of St. Allentine” 
That also means, of course that I can’t devote a lot of time here… as you can see, I post only sporadically. I’m sorry for that.
Thank you both, Francis, and Lachlan for your very kind words. I really appreciate them! So, I hope you know that you have made someone out here happy with your kindness!
Wishing you both the best this year!
-Allen