To Writers It May Concern ( Read more... )

I am sitting here eating my favorite Trader Joe's frozen meal, Chicken Tikka Masala with Cumin Rice, wishing desperately that I knew someone well versed enough in both Trader Joe's frozen food and Trader Joe's cheap wine shop wine to know what bottle I should buy and drink with it (and the four others that I eat routinely ( Read more... )

Dear Caitlyn Jenner ( Read more... )

I don't even know. Blame my roommate. I do ( Read more... )

Working, crazy, directing the high school musical (thank God I've never seen that movie), and trying not to lose all semblance of self in the haze of first year teaching ( Read more... )

So Pinterest drives me crazy. One, for the sheer number of awesome discoveries to be made there. Two, for the total lack of research (gullible) pinners actually do ( Read more... )

I finally saw 90% of Aaron Sorkin's oeuvre. I had seen West Wing (and several of his movies) awhile back but never Sports Night, Studio 60, or The Newsroom. I watched all of them in about a month and some of the things that niggled me about his writing, that I acknowledged but felt were far outshined by the rest of it just began to be gross ( Read more... )

Sometimes when I recap my day I feel like some Stepford wife or a character from the 1950's.

1. Got up before the sun
2. Raised children
3. Cleaned house
4. Baked pie

See what I mean.

Allow me to introduce The Wine RackAt first I was torn between being horribly offended (sexist much?) and kind of wanting one (perfect for sneaking cheap booze on, say, oh, a cruise) and then I thought about it just a little longer and realized it was a terrible idea ( Read more... )

I kissed a dolphin and I liked it.

Dork jokes aside--who is dying to make one now, huh?--I did actually get to kiss a dolphin in Grand Cayman (formerly Tortuga as in from Tyrone Power pirate movies--and,ok, fine, that Dep guy too) during my little winter getaway. There was way less sleep than I had hoped for but way more exercise.