my summary of the republican debate last week ( Read more... )

imagine that one day you discover a hard bump on your spine, like an extra bone poking up between your shoulders blades. this bone perplexes you for a few days, until one night when you are staring at it in the mirror, and you discover that you can make it go away by concentrating on it. you watch in the mirror as the bone seems to shrink and fold ( Read more... )

so i made a big, public mistake at work today that really pissed off some people in another department. i have a feeling i'm in for a bitching-out of the highest caliber come monday ( Read more... )

i feel like lately i am going through a second puberty.

it's exciting but definitely weird.

I think I just realized what everyone hates about Renee Zellweger. Not only does she seem like a regular person trying to reach beyond her "proper place", all of her roles (well, all the ones I can think of) mirror that ( Read more... )

So around noon today I already had plans for what I was going to write about tonight. This is because I accidentally walked into a top-brass meeting at work, thinking it was a different meeting that I was supposed to go to. I walked in about 30 minutes after it had started, and quickly realized that 1) only high-level execs were present, 2) ( Read more... )

i'm supposed to be working on my job applications, but there is not much in the world that depresses me more. so i'm taking a break. (incidentally, if anyone hears of a cool job in nyc, let me know ( Read more... )

...that i have only just learned ( Read more... )

what it was was so many seminars that discussed nothing but money and brand-name food products. a few respectably-educated men with names like brad and gary, men who work for research firms on the east coast and know by how many tenths of a percent coke sales were higher than pepsi sales in denver in 2004 and in tallahassee in 2005 and in ann arbor ( Read more... )

you know what's a really good form of birth control for me?

those yellow lance armstrong bracelets.

seriously. i would never have sex with a guy wearing one of those.