Guys, it is summer, which means I'm not teaching, which means I have all sorts of time to Accomplish Things, yet all it seems I've been accomplishing so far is ( Read more... )

( grandpa update )

I am wide awake right now. Work is going to be torture tomorrow because of this, and yet here I am, typing away ( Read more... )

This afternoon I sent out an e-mail to friends telling them that my grandfather had had a stroke, and that it was unlikely he would recover, and would they please offer prayers and thoughts that he would spend the next few days in peace, without suffering. The priest administered the last rites. My father and aunts had a lengthy meeting about ( Read more... )

.i. desire

I can't express to you how much I want - no, need - Breyer's Mint Chocolate Chip Light Ice Cream right now. I kind of want to get in my car and drive to the store and buy it ( Read more... )

The highlight of my Christmas has to be - it HAS to be - the moment when I found myself on my knees, head under the dining room table next to the bare chicken legs of one of our dinner guests, doing my best to unbuckle her velcro sneakers so that she could change into a pair of my mother's sweatpants because, as she had said several times by that ( Read more... )

So I have another temp job tomorrow. Joy! My temp agency pimp (timp), Chris, called me yesterday and said RandomCompany wanted me to start tomorrow morning. I said sure. Then she called back and said that the company wanted me to sit down for an interview, which was annoying because it's a two week assignment covering phones and, also, the ( Read more... )

I did not sign off on this snowstorm! W-T-F, people? SERIOUSLY. I was supposed to ! I was supposed to make foolish, last-minute, anxiety purchases at a box store today! I was supposed to get TRAVELER'S CHECKS (at the bank, not the aforementioned box store). Instead I was trapped inside the house, incapable of accomplishing anything, save ( Read more... )

I'm sure lots of people had wild weekends full of debauchery, but I ask you - did anyone else get to ride on an old school fire truck with Santa on Sunday ( Read more... )

I love Thanksgiving Day. I am grateful for a lot of things, too many to name, but if I had to give a brief list: my health, my family, and my friends, including all of you.

( notes from today's turkey day )