Any photo that’s appeared here in the last few months has been willfully stolen from someone else. Because my camera is either cranky, broken, or despises me with a curiously virulent passion. It’s a little point-and-shoot I got before leaving for Nora’s wedding in England. After the wedding, some friends and I planned to trot [...]
Saturday morning, I woke to the sound of waves lapping the sand. By Sunday afternoon, I wasn’t so much flirting with melanoma as I was engaged in heavy petting and dubbed “that poor-complected hussy” by melanoma’s long-suffering parents. I went to Santa Cruz with Kristin this weekend. She was there to run a marathon, I [...]
Engaged in some amateur psychokinesis right now. Specifically, trying to manipulate the world to fit my agenda by muttering, “I am not getting sick, I am not getting sick, I am not getting sick AGAIN FOR THE SIXTH TIME THIS MONTH, I AM NOT.” Results remain inconclusive. I’m not really getting sick (AM NOT, I SAY), just [...]
Walking down the hall on some mostly pointless errand - not quite pointless enough to avoid doing it, unfortunately - I passed a cube o’ plotters. We’re the party division at this grand institution and these parties are legendary. The upcoming gala is entitled “It’s April 15 and Your Taxes Are Done So Here, Have a Bagel With Jaunty Pink [...]
There’s something to be said for putting on a slinky dress and absurdly high heels and going big on a Monday night. Of course, anything good that can be said about such a plan is generally said on the Monday evening and not so much on the Tuesday morning following. Especially when you wake up [...]
Last week I spent some time going through my email archives – when you’ve been felled by the wasting plague, you need something to do during the seven minutes a day you’re not sleeping – and I found an email I sent to my ex, about a month before we split up. It was nine [...]
