Barry used to joke about my clown car of a purse. Although it was never particularly small, I used to pull the most random shit out of it, much to his bemusement ( Read more... )

I didn't go to Paris.

The first ten or so comments that I received on this post inspired me to scout out plane tickets and hotels, and I found the flights I would have taken and the hotel I would have patronized. But...I just couldn't pull the trigger. I couldn't justify spending so much money on something I felt ambivalent about ( Read more... )

I'm trying to decide whether or not I want to go to Paris for a few days to see Barry (and Paris, obviously) and celebrate his birthday ( Read more... )

It is after 8 PM here and it's still 93 degrees outside. Weather.com puts it at 86, though, so that's probably more accurate ( Read more... )

Ben and Juliet, grad students and friends in Berkeley, got married in Australia earlier this month. Earlier today, they sent an email with pictures from their wedding, "proposal weekend," and their engagement party ( Read more... )

Last winter, when British Airways failed to deliver to Paris the luggage of my former coworker Barry, I considered how much it would suck to lose luggage on an international flight. Because of this, I packed my two suitcases for my trip to Prague as though only one of them would arrive. Optimistic, I suppose, to think that I'd still get one, but ( Read more... )

Barry sent me a link he found on Digg:

Barry: uh... odd: http://dermatology.cdlib.org/124/case_presentations/pseudomamma/conde.htmlKate: ew ( Read more... )

Yesterday at work, I tested the relevance of our search engine (as I sometimes do), and one of the queries that I tested was "quizzes from Cosmo magazine." Having all of those quizzes with their little radio buttons in front of me, I was naturally inclined to try a few. You know, for research purposes. And I think I can safely say that the Ask. ( Read more... )

Barry: eww ( Read more... )

Thanks to everyone who sent me a valentine via the link I set up a couple of weeks back. It's kind of funny how much those little gestures mean to us, but they're nice ( Read more... )