No, I didn’t go shopping. I worked. I worked yesterday too. I’ll work tomorrow and Sunday. All of this is most unfortunate because I had a series of conference calls and email round-robins with folks as early as July, and yet no one figured out until about a week ago that *something* needed to be […]
I live on a 9% grade hill, which is nothing to sneeze at. I’ve biked up it, run up it, walked up it, sashayed, sauntered, and even, once, slunk up it. I can also drive up it, in the snow and ice, even. Most unlike the unfortunate souls out there this evening. It’s Snowpocalypse 2010 in Seattle […]
I have this list of things I think I really ought to learn to do, or should change in my habits. For example, some of the latter include an average of one “me” night per week, or healthier eating habits. The former include things like “learn to ski” and “learn to drive a stick shift”. Today was […]
Having a nearly 8-year-old son means I have the karmic retribution my parents longed for when I was 8. Actually, more like when I was 9 and 10. I was 9 when I got glasses. I left them everywhere. Even at 9, I didn’t like the stigma that glasses came with (when you’re older they […]
NB: I totally blogged about all of this last night, from my iPhone, at like 11pm. Unfortunately, it didn’t seem to post, and so I am re-blogging, in a much less recent/scintillating fashion. Sorry about that. I didn’t have time to write, as originally planned, during the intermissions. For one, each intermission was 20 minutes […]
Greetings from the dining room at McCaw Hall, where I am without a doubt the youngest person here. I have all my own teeth. Flying solo as I am this evening it affords me the ability to play with my phone at the dinner table without offending anyone. This in turn offers camouflage whereby I […]
Everyone has that nightmare: it’s final exam day and you’re completely unprepared and possibly naked in class. Or you’re extremely late to class. Or unprepared in some other way. Or both. Today I was. And was again. I was checking through the site of my nice fancy gym as to which class was available at […]
OMG OMG OMG O YOU GUYS! I was totally right. The Group Power instructor (Group Power being the hold these large barbells and do things like lunges and squats and lifts and all that in time with the Bee Gees and Twisted Sister, I so kid you not) WAS A CHEERLEADER! I totally called it. No […]
Remember that part in Indiana Jones, where he’s being dragged behind the truck, through gravelly road, hanging on by his whip? Harrison Ford actually did that stunt, although he was given extra clothing and they pre-dug a ditch for him to “ride” in. Somehow gravel down the front of your shirt at however many miles […]
So, a couple of days ago it was the Day of the Dead. I’ve always liked Halloween and the DotD, and I’m not really sure why. It’s morose, if you think about it. For someone whose first real, personal experience with death was a classmate killed in Afghanistan — Rest in Peace, Michael Montgomery — […]
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