My DVR decided not to tape Survivor Nicaragua, which I'm taking as a sign from the universe that I am not meant to watch this season.  Otoh, The Amazing Race starts Sunday.  That show has a much sunnier view of human nature than Survivor - the really nasty moves/teams tend to be punished somehow, not rewarded, not to mention that the travelling ( Read more... )

Today felt like holding a huge hank of yarn, with the cut ends of everything I’m trying to keep track of/do/take care of or work on/for/with flopping out.  So here's a taste:

I woke up really early (for me). No moral fortitude involved, this cold just had me so miserable I couldn’t pull my usual get back into bed and go back to sleep after the ( Read more... )

I need a parenting book for first time parents.  It needs to be relatively succinct, not preachy (and not too big would be good).  I'm considering Parenting for Dummies, Hardin Gookin; The Wonder Years, American Academy of Pediatrics; Caring for Your Baby and Young Child 5th Edition, American Academy of Pediatrics.  Thoughts?  Any others you'd ( Read more... )

The brief got in this afternoon, with two minutes to spare.  Yeah, I like to live dangerously.  While I was running between the courthouse and the clerk's office, I kept telling myself, "This case is NOT worth a stroke."   (Right, not getting paid.  How'dya guess?)  Still managed to eat up my afternoon.

In other news  I find the metrics mostly ( Read more... )

Instead of castigating myself (a particular skill of mine; I'll never lack for a top, will I?) because I have accomplished exactly NOTHING today, I have decided that I am going to pat myself on the back for NOT DOING ANYTHING really, really well.
(Affirmation: the practice of lying to oneself repeatedly in the often vain hope of making the ( Read more... )

Keeping up with the internetz is like keeping up with housework.  Let it go for a few days, and the dust bunnies are suddenly chasing you.   So I know there are things I've missed.  I'm not really going to worry about it now.  (Although yuki_onna had a really interesting post about fan and artist connections to which I want to write a longer and more ( Read more... )

I had an exchange of emails with GF2, the first communication since my birthday last fall.  It didn't take long for her to get to how fail we were, and how tangential our expectations were of each other, despite our long association.  And then she sent a follow-up email that proved it.  And, a** I am, I had to point it out.

Needless to say, that ' ( Read more... )

I have two types of dreams when I'm stressing, as I am right now* because no one is paying their bills. (So of course, I can't pay mine.  Ahh, the circle of life!)   The first type is a flood dream.  Hurricanes and tsunamis and slow, insidious seeping floods ( Read more... )

It's so frustrating to look up and realize it's 4:30 and I haven't accomplished even a small portion of the to-do list.

A large part of my personality (not to mention my LJ handle) explained:  I am baby 19!    http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/04/magazine/04anxiety-t.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=baby%2019&st=cse  (you might have to register - harmless).

Mostly ( Read more... )

A friend from law school lost her license:  Indefinitely suspended ( Read more... )