My trip to Las Vegas last weekend was a glitter-dusted convergence of all my favorite things: cheese, hilarious people who like to type words on the internets, and accidentally flashing a room full of bloggers because I don’t understand how dresses work, especially dresses from American Apparel. Flashing people isn’t really a notable pastime of [...]
A canary in Toronto flaps its damn cheerful yellow wings and suddenly my touching excitement about Forward Momentum finds itself brutally quelled by an ambulance ride to the Apple hospital where I sob softly as my six-month-old laptop succumbs to an acute case of Peppermint Tea Spill-itis.* Canadian Canary: 1. Moose: 0. (* The prognosis is…confusing. [...]
When mechanized church bells start blaring next to your head and you mumble, “Are you KIDDING me with this?” before hitting snooze (and changing the ring tone to slightly less irritating crickets), your alarm is not, in fact, kidding you with this. Because it’s a digital device and digital devices don’t have a sense of [...]
I’ve been plowing through five years of blog posts, trying to re-categorize and tag and generally inflict my deep desire to organize on the digital world. (It also gives me an excuse to watch excessive amounts of Community, a show that encapsulates the glorious joy of being alive. And being a slacker. A funny slacker. [...]
I had an experience a few weeks ago that was like getting leadership tips from Ghandi or having Stephen Hawking edit my science report. Or William Shakespeare say he really liked that poem I wrote in the 11th grade about the bell pepper and, yes, you SHOULD send it to The New Yorker, but first, [...]
My plan for Saturday was to go on a day trip – somewhere along the coast where I could walk on the beach and then stare at the sea and drink wine. If I was feeling really plucky, I could strike up a conversation with a stranger, one from which I would quickly retreat but [...]
So I was probably scraping bloggity rock bottom the other day by describing my lunch, but I have to risk compounding that faux pas by talking more about these Fancy Turkey Sausage People. Karen left a comment requesting the origins of the sausages and I dutifully trotted over to the fridge to find out. (Names [...]
Words have power. Who knew? I have a lot of half-baked thoughts that make it out into the world. Sometimes I wish I could keep my damn mouth shut until I’m sure of what I want to communicate, but it’s usually only after I’ve unhinged my trap and let if flap merrily in the breeze [...]
To be honest, I’m not much of a doer. I’m more of a…relaxer. A dangerous tendency when you set your own schedule. I’ve come to the conclusion that the only option for me, aside from Blank-Eyed Cube Drone, is to find something I’m so excited about that I pop out of bed in the morning [...]
Behold! For lo, I HAVE A NEW WEB DESIGN. I am both giddy and very, very proud. I did it myself, you see. I downloaded Photoshop and I futzed with the fancy fonts I had to find on the internet to match the template I uploaded onto the server ALL BY MYSELF. Then I had [...]
