Archive for June, 2011

There Was Also Discussion of How Much of This Would Fit on Her Tombstone

Thursday, June 30th, 2011

Does this look like the kind of woman who would ask her daughter to write her obituary as a birthday present? NOT REALLY, NO. That cheerful smile hides a rather gothic sensibility. She looks like she’d ask for a nice book, doesn’t she? Maybe a Rosamunde Pilcher novel or something by the Dalai Lama. But, [...]

Want Cookies?

Tuesday, June 28th, 2011

Of course you do. Everyone wants cookies. ESPECIALLY COOKIES MADE OF TWITTER. (More accurately, things I’ve written on Twitter.) Because the only thing better than reading Twitter is eating Twitter. Bitter Baking Company was a BiSC sponsor and immediately made an irrevocable and obnoxious fangirl out of me. So when Nicole asked if I wanted [...]

Six Examples of Why I’m Not So Great at Interviewing People

Monday, June 20th, 2011

Ever push a random button on your laptop keyboard and become very, very confused by what happens? Ever bake something and wonder why it doesn’t look like the picture in the cookbook? And take sixteen whole minutes to remember that you aren’t Nigella Lawson and you substituted baking powder for baking soda (because how different [...]

Where I Live

Thursday, June 2nd, 2011

Originally written for I Live Here:SF. I’ve been thinking a lot about my life lately, specifically about my life in San Francisco. So this seems like a good time to post it here. Someone once told me that I live a charmed life. Since this was in a job interview, I can only assume that my resume [...]