i cuffed up my jeans and put on my pearls and met ms. elliott and mr. white for a cocktail this evening, per my mother's suggestion. "are you going to be lonely tonight without andrew?" she asked. "not really," said i, "and in any case, i'll probably meet up with amy." "well," said she," have a cocktail ( Read more... )

carmen electra just called to offer me dating advice.

we sat out on the roof in a hot night wind, eating popsicles and drinking Point by the neon light of Buca's, the italian restaurant across the street. a raccoon trundled his way up the fire escape of the building next to us, climbed the ladder to the roof paw over paw. Amy and i talked about our jobs and the sitcom she'll write; jackie and eric ( Read more... )

the charm of my new job is starting to wear off ( Read more... )

today as I was logging out of my computer, getting ready to leave work, i heard cameron-on-the-other-side-of-the-cubicle-wall say, "hey peggy, do you know any alterations places downtown? i have like four pairs of pants i need hemmed." so i popped my head up like the gopher i am and casually mentioned that i might possibly be an experienced ( Read more... )

last night while andrew was at a show in madison, my parents picked me up & took me to their house (it's not home anymore, is it?) to sort through most of the crap left in my room. my mom is chomping at the bit to repaint and rearrange, and STRONGLY ENCOURAGED me to finally get down to business this weekend. despite her eagerness, i had to kick her ( Read more... )

i wasn't going to post again today because it makes me feel like a drip. but i was writing an email to emmy and wrote the following description of working at NM ( Read more... )

I have a feeling that this might become the dumping ground for all my work-related frustrations/exaltations. Hopefully most of them will be funny ( Read more... )

Well then.

It's just too hard to figure out what everyone's doing now that we've been scattered by graduation like so many marbles. So I got me one of these things.

The user name refers to an origami piece known as "conversation on seal rock," which makes even less sense visually than it does verbally.

I'll try not to be too stupid here.