My baby shower organizing duties are done! The shower for my sister went off very nicely yesterday, but it was a busy weekend with a birthday dinner for my dad on Friday night, the shower on Saturday, then an evening get together with my relatives who came in for the shower from out of town. Today I got to relax more, and I got to see my sister ( Read more... )

I usually don't post from work, but I just had to spend ten minutes listening to the person across the hall from me have a fight with his daughter (11 or 12) about her being a jerk and not wanting to go bra shopping. Is this now workplace appropriate conversation ( Read more... )

So in addition to working and feeling like I'm going to a million baby showers, I found time on Wednesday to participate in Ohio Prevention First Lobby Day. It's something that a bunch of volunteer and nonprofit groups in Ohio were doing to lobby our state legislature to provide better health care and sex education to women. There's a bill that's ( Read more... )

Now that my interest in cooking has gone from a phase to a full out hobby, I figured I could do a quick rundown of some recipes I've tried lately ( Read more... )

I finally got around to taking the advice of a friend of mine and looked up "meet-ups" in my new city. I hadn't heard of them before, but they're basically groups based around some particular interest that give people like me, who are new to the area and don't know people, some social interaction. I put my name on lists for the New in Columbus ( Read more... )

Tonight, I got to see another kind of gym member craziness. While I was doing my weight machine rotation, I kept hearing what sounded like a guy pounding on one of the treadmills. At first I thought there was a problem with the machine, but no. When I turned to look, he was actually just standing on the machine, not walking or running, watching ( Read more... )

If you don't regularly read Go Fug Yourself (gofugyourself.com) you absolutely have to start. The creators have developed a take-off of the NCAA tournament, but instead of picking basketball teams the readers can vote for which celebrity's "style" is the worst. Instead of North Carolina vs. Louisville, you can vote on Sharon Stone vs. Juliette ( Read more... )

It's been a good Spring Break so far. I'm working from home today, which means I can put together syllabi while I watch the first day of the NCAA tournament and that's awesome. I'm not even going to let my ongoing confusion over Ohio's tax forms and laws get me down (although I'm sure I'll be posting about them later, because they suck ( Read more... )

Even though it doesn't top the Vermont Valentine's Blizzard of last year, we're getting slammed with snow in Ohio this weekend. There must be at least a foot of snow on the ground right now, and even though our Winter Weather Advisory ends at 4pm it's still snowing right now ( Read more... )

I got a haircut today, and my stylist asked me if I ever considered just chopping my hair off and going with a short haircut, something like a pixie cut. She said she was thinking a Selma Blair type cut would work with my features.

I always hate how my hair looks in pictures. Maybe this is the solution...