Me: I am going to sit in on this doula's class like a goddamn professional! I'm going to observe and take notes and be invisible and write up an awesome goddamn article after!
The Universe: trolololol, how about you slip down an entire flight of steps in front of the whole class ( Read more... )

Long live my Cab Calloway shoes. I've spent this week tramping three or more miles every day, between walking to and from train stations and running around campus and the Loop, and I'd been noticing my shoes weren't quite up to snuff. I switched among a couple -- Chucks, boots (the sole is coming off at the toe, FIE) and the aforementioned Docs. My ( Read more... )

Instead I am panicking about my teeth.

( I will understand if you don't want to read this. )

It has been a day of total food failures. I haven't had a chance to get to the grocery store, so I'm low on everything, and I need to do dishes, which, blah. So, breakfast was tea and a protein bar thing purchased at the gas station near my train station. (Side note: I am worried I've suddenly become lactose intolerant. Milk is giving me stomach ( Read more... )

I actually had a quite marvelous Christmas until the last hour or so! Long story (which I hope to relate soon) short, after coming home from a very full day at the movies, I bumped into a mug of cold tea I still don't remember leaving there and spilled some on my laptop, which sort of sighed wearily and shut down on its own. I'm furious because I ( Read more... )

I well and truly don't know how to cope with this. Guys, the Photoshop Elements that I have at work doesn't resize in pixels. There is no option for this anywhere. I can choose from percent, inches, cm, mm, points, picas and columns, but no pixels. I can't even click "Resample image" to change it. What in God's name do I do? NEVER MIND. Oh, that ( Read more... )

You know what? This is pretty sad. It's howling wind and rain outside, and I'm inside my apartment, not chilling out, not being productive, not cooking something delicious. Oh no -- I'm inside my apartment tearing it inside out looking for my wrist braces, because now my wrists are sore from all the writing I did today ( Read more... )

I am in a profound state of do not want to go back to work tomorrow. On the other hand, maybe it's all right, as this danger sign just happened on my Twitter feed this evening:

@gorygoryzimzam: I don't think this is right: I was reading the Russia chapter in The Guns of August. Now I'm listening to the Anastasia soundtrack. #hmm
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Here's how bad my caffeine tolerance is: I went to the coffee shop near my apartment after work, because I was on a groove with this article that was due today and didn't want to sink into "I'm home! I won't do anything!"-ness. I didn't want to just sit there and use up their space (and wireless) without buying something, since it's a small, ( Read more... )