I shouldn't be this tired at 10 PM 11:30 PM on a Friday. Sheesh ( Read more... )

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BINFICS: a convenient acronym for my Books I Never Finished In College Series. This series encompasses more books than I'd like, seeing as college fell into a time in my life that found me spending my waking hours feeling sorry for myself* and not recognizing that I wasn't living up to my hard-wired ideals about the books and authors that English ( Read more... )

Our waiter at the vegetarian restaurant tonight sat next to me in first grade. Back then, he was so tall, and wore Jams, and once told on me for sitting improperly in my chair (whenever I finished my silent work early, I would spend time doing "chair tricks," which mostly meant leaning back in my chair as far as it would go without crashing to the ( Read more... )

Tomorrow's my twenty-sixth birthday. This means it'll also be:

2 years since I threw up on a shinkansen from Tokyo to Kyoto, but was able to spend the night at a four-star hotel and eat birthday beignets with Adam.
5 years since I met Adam. For those who don't know, we met on a blind date. He was all prepared with a birthday card for me when we ( Read more... )

My sister's graduating from college a couple weekends from now, which is crazy. She's 22 and she's been working in insurance sales since the beginning of the year. I don't have a clue what to get her for a graduation present. Suggestions? If she were getting an apartment instead of moving back home, I could have some fun buying kitchen stuff for ( Read more... )

Because I told peach_salsa I'd upload this. Also, in honor of hangyourhalo's homecoming:


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Paul McCartney looked very wrinkled and mortal on TV tonight. It was a bit like watching my dad trying to carry the Super Bowl Halftime show. I imagined Sir Paul leaving the stage, catching a ride back to his hotel, having a glass of milk, calling his wooden-legged wife, and then going to sleep ( Read more... )

Emily and I used to listen to Dar Williams's song "February" at the beginning and the end of the month (and a number of times in the middle, usually, because there were often Dar sing-a-longs to be had), and force ourselves to evaluate whether we had, as the song said, "lost to February." I went 1 and 3 with February during my four years of college ( Read more... )

One of the regulars came into the workout room tonight while I was plugging away on the elliptical machine and trying to get interested in watching Fairly Oddparents on the TV that's set too high on the wall for me to be able to change the channel. "Gettin' ready for the beach?" he said ( Read more... )