My deep and abiding love for Glee is no secret. This love has grown exponentially as beloved characters develop and even Sue digs deep in her brittle rib cage for a feebly-beating heart. Also: I got to dance with Brittany. For those of you don’t watch (and if you don’t, WHY NOT?), Brittany is the blonde [...]
I am exhausted. For no apparent reason. I have theories ranging from physical (staying up til 2 a.m. and Jillian Michaels’ coven of perky sadists) to emotional (“you want to be self-employed? how sweetly misinformed you are. now get over there and apply to some wretched temp job”) to psychosomatic (“can you catch black magic? [...]
1. Dating doesn’t need to be inherently dramatic. 2. Any persistent drama is cultivated by yours truly. 3. That said, if the only way I can get peace, blessed peace, is to stop dating altogether…SO BE IT. 4. The last time I was as patently uninterested in dating as I am now, it was 1986 and [...]
My mom and I drove up to Nevada City this weekend to celebrate a friend’s 80th birthday. She’s the matriarch of quite a clan, full of siblings who actually like each other and good-natured ribbing over the collective lack of vocal talent. If memory serves, “WE SUCK!” was the rallying call of the off-key John Denver [...]
Today is one of those halcyon San Francisco days when you can delude yourself into thinking summer really IS coming this year. That it’s safe to put the winter coat in storage and rely solely on sundresses and flip flops. It isn’t, of course. But for today, when the sun is bright and hot and [...]
Layer One I dance perilously close to the edge of Bank Balance: Zero Dollars on a regular basis. I don’t have to do this. I could earn more. I could scale back. But tottering on the edge of zero is, oddly, my comfort zone. Despite the fact that it sounds NOT AT ALL COMFORTABLE, NOT [...]
You know how some days you feel really in the groove of things? You hop out of bed to exercise in the morning, you choose the apple over the apple danish, one work task flows effortlessly into the next, and nobody cuts you off when you’re trying to make a left turn? Yeah. I love [...]
Pub trivia renders me pretty much useless. Not as useless as I would be at, say, nuclear physics or CIA headquarters, but my main function on trivia night is more Fetching Pints than Accurately Naming the 27th President of the United States. Before I go to trivia, I like to make sure people are well [...]
Kristin and Scott recently pledged their troth in a lovely, tear-tugging ceremony with strewn petals and hair drifting cinematically across porcelain foreheads. It was eloquent and heartfelt and everything a wedding should be. At least until The Incident. When fate and a cozy venue made a dastardly pact that put me, my elbows, and the [...]
Saturday was one of those idyllic San Francisco days when wine flows, shoulders burn, paella is inhaled, iPods are recovered in Kinko’s against all odds, trips to Tuscany are planned, you find yourself holding a can of Coors Light on someone’s roof, and the next day is a total loss. Because the human body needs [...]
