As soon as there are too many things open on my desktop, I crash ( Read more... )

Being as I'm in a stable long-term relationship with someone who wants to have babies someday, I have to consider having babies someday in my gameplans. I wonder if I'll be one of those horrible insane parents, and what variety I'll be. I think I can probably hold it together well enough not to beat my kids with wire hangers, but I can see the ( Read more... )

So, I'm very much a believer in the possibilities of life and that people shouldn't shut themselves off to them. Most things are easier than most people think if they decide to pursue them. While some things are, admittedly, hard, I'll occasionally run across someone pining to do something simple as though it were the hardest thing in the world. ( Read more... )

I always find it strange how, psychologically, it's so easy for me to "start fresh" as soon as december is over and january begins. I mean, theoretically I could do it at any time, but it never seems as effective as at the onset of the new year ( Read more... )

So I went in to work my restaurant hostess job on Friday and saturday night and sunday brunch. The only catch seemed to be that they'd lost about 5 employees all at once and needed quick replacements. The new waitresses that I talked to said that they, too, had been hired on the spot with little consideration of their credentials and with little ( Read more... )

Okay, okay, I have posts about europe (great!) and cooking class (retarded!) pending. Right now, though, I would like to talk about the weirdness of jobs right now ( Read more... )

"This life is a hospital in which every patient is possessed with a desire to change beds." -- Charles BaudelaireI'm coming to think that the concept of the "mid-life crisis" is dated. It's an anachronism dating back to a time when everyone got jobs, got married and started popping out kids right off the bat, and were so preoccupied with all of ( Read more... )

The summer hasn't felt like the summer until now. It began with me being too involved in moving to be involved in much else. Then it was too ungodly hot to leave the house. Then I was obliged to deal with family unpleasantries. Now, I finally feel like I can enjoy the summer as I intended to ( Read more... )

Since wednesday (and until next wednesday) I'm up in Maine enjoying the clean beach and tasty lobsters with Richard's family. Two days after I return, I have to go to Florida to deal with my own family, which I am not looking forward to at all ( Read more... )

Richard: You're going to have to hold me tonight, because I just read an H.P. Lovecraft story and I'm scared.

Later...

Me: Are you still afraid of Lovecraftian fungus aliens?
Richard: No, I've been listening to Sondheim, so now I'm afraid of people from uptown.