Oh, winter, how do I hate thee?  Let me count the ways:

My limited warm-clothing wardrobe.
The cruel tease of snow days that never come.
That burning feeling in my chest and nostrils when I am out in the cold.
Prematurely dark evenings.
The little bits of fabric from my red flannel bed sheets that get all over everything.
Not being able to walk to and ( Read more... )

Further proof that driving a car truly isn't my thing ( Read more... )

Quote o' the week about yours truly, from none other than Melp ( Read more... )

I have three more days of work this week, so it's time for the Scrooge in me to let out a "humbug" or two. So although I love Christmas more than I love Fresca, here's a list of all things Christmas that I could do without ( Read more... )

• So it's been quite a week for schadenfreude. The whitewashing of the Republicans on Tuesday night, Rummy's "resignation" yesterday afternoon, and K-Fed getting tossed out on the street. (Yes, I'm aware that he'll be getting quite a payout, but seriously, how long do you think it will take him to blow through that money? He's not exactly Phi Beta ( Read more... )

As you may have heard, there's an election going on next week.  You may have also heard that I'm a bloody-shirt-waving liberal, to put it one way.  With that in mind, I am both excited and apprehensive about the potential aftermath of November 7.  As such, I have been keeping an eye on the polls, the mud-slinging, the horrendous car crash that ( Read more... )

Some random thoughts from the past few days ( Read more... )

I haven't let loose with a good, angry rant in a while. I was flipping through the channels, and came across a news story on WGN from Chicago. The gist of the story is as follows:

Books BAD!Ladies and gentlemen, it is now 2006. Mass printing has been around for 550 years at this point. Are we really still shouting and pissing and moaning about ( Read more... )

As I rode the Metro this morning and wondered how stupid my snug fleece hat looked, I decided that I needed to make a helpful list of hints for my compatriots in the Nation's Capital. These helpful tips include ( Read more... )

I got a parking ticket today. I slept in and took the 8:46 train to Washington D.C. Even though I got to the park and ride in Laurel 15 minutes early, and it was nasty and windy and rainy and anyone with half a functioning brain would have taken the day off, there was not an open space to be seen. Well, there were half-spaces here or there, ( Read more... )