The Cuban pianist my dad works with is taking his whole family to visit relatives in Havana, but he needed help booking the tickets to Miami online. So, last night he brought his kid, his wife, and all his in-laws over--all from Cuba, all speaking in Spanish--so that my folks could walk them through the ticketing process. It was a lesson in ( Read more... )

Today was my last day at OMSI, and it was surreal. I expected to be more nostalgic--it is, after all, a very bitter-sweet ending to an era--but instead I just didn’t care. You see, yesterday Duke attacked a Fed Ex guy, so I was a bit more distracted than anticipated.
I have no idea what’s going to happen to this dog. All Animal Control wants from us ( Read more... )

( Shit, it's been over a month, where do I even begin? )

Huzzah, there is sunlight! I have suddenly have energy! I think I'll write something!
Thanks to my selflessly working on Memorial Day, I got to take this Friday off. I knew that I needed to visit UW’s Burke Museum (if I’m gonna be in the program, might as well see the goods!), and that I needed to touch bases with my Nikki, seeing as I’m one of her ( Read more... )

Confession: I cannot stand the Giant Schnauzer my cousin gave Dad. Samba is sweet and friendly, but she's also wild, and loud, and the size of a small pony, and tracks mud everywhere, and generally too much like a little human kid for my likes. The time I'd put in at the Humane Society in high school had burned me out on puppies anyway (all these ( Read more... )

The housemate search continues. I think I may have found one girl who is awesome, and (now that Daphna's going to have to move out...did I mention that? I can't rememeber if I did or not. But yeah, she's going to move in a month too) Kristen's found a really cool guy available at the end of February. This is just in time, since now that Emme ( Read more... )

How can one dog cause me so much pain and suffering? I can't change his bandages, can't get him into the vet, and now he wont take his antibiotics. I could dip the pills in pure bacon grease, slather them with cheez-wiz, and stuff them inside and ripe, aromatic, perfectly aged rabbit carcass and he still would run away from it. How did that damn ( Read more... )

I had no idea that there could be so many different breeds of creepy, but they are all here in force today. The leering-old-man species of creepy, the popped-collar-gelled-hair species, the majestic-ginger-mullet-of-magnificence species, and the oh-dear-god-what-the-hell-is-up-with-that-one, just to name a few. I love people watching at work ( Read more... )

The joy at the museum today was palpable, I can't remember the last time I've seen so many contented faces. Well, OMSI being a science museum and all, when was the last time we had a president that actually respected science? It's amazing. Dad was all weepy again during the whole inauguration. Obama will not be perfect, he's already done some ( Read more... )

This morning, on the max train to work, I got stuck sitting next to this older gentleman. You know, the kind of person who wants to start a conversation with every person within earshot, and has no edit feature on what comes out of their mouth. The first thing he asked me was, "Are you from Me-hi-co?" Well, he was so old and annoyingly sweet and ( Read more... )