So it's been a very busy spring ( Read more... )

I've been thinking about small-world stories. We've all got them. Lately I seem to be hearing a lot of them.

My best small-world story: At Bryn Mawr, I had a good friend named Catherine (well, she's still a friend, of course, because she is lovely). Our junior year we lived in the same dorm a few doors away from each other. We were just chatting one ( Read more... )

I know I'm spamming today. Promise I'll space things out better ( Read more... )

This morning I took my laptop in to the computer guy to have it cleaned out. It's at that point in a laptop's life where everything's just slow, it's probably full of gunk, startup is occasionally problematic, booting up takes forever...yeah. Looking forward to a nice clean, optimized system. I hope he doesn't need to wipe everything. I mean, ( Read more... )

So it's come to my attention that certain family members of mine wondered if I'd died a horrible unreported death due to my lack of updates, until I turned up at Christmas. Short answer: no ( Read more... )

I had Christmas Day on Christmas Eve this year. Because we only had my niece and nephew today, we did all our Santa gift-opening today with them. It was great! The kids got boatloads of presents and we all bemoaned how over-the-top we'd gone. My parents liked their presents, the sweaters I got my brother fit him perfectly ( Read more... )

Hello everyone! I hope everybody had a nice Thanksgiving weekend. Mine was lovely, if full of driving. I left work on Wednesday and drove to Milwaukee. My idea of taking an alternate route was successful. I like the route north to Toledo and then west on I-80 to Chicago. It's significantly pricier, though, because I-80 is a toll road. Oh ( Read more... )

So my visit to Janesville was very pleasant. More keenly than ever, though, I had that feeling where my hometown is no longer my home. Janesville doesn't feel like home anymore. And it's not just that my parents don't have a house there anymore. My grandmother's house feels like home, but the town? Not so much. I suppose that isn't unusual, I ( Read more... )

Oh. Em. Gee.

Today I walked/jogged for 6 miles. Just so we're clear, the furthest that I had ever walked at one time before today, just walked, was 3.8 miles ( Read more... )

So I can now FINALLY tell you where I am and what I've been up to since Thursday. I couldn't before because Certain People read this blog ( Read more... )