I’m starting to make a plan to change my life. I’m not big on discussing it, but I’m trying to make a five-year plan and set goals and move forward and do things. I’m tired of feeling like a useless slacker that hasn’t accomplished anything with my life. Right now I have about 10 viable [...]
Shopping today. Checking out and the woman at the register next to me is trying to get the guy in the front of the line’s attention because she can take whoever’s next. I walk back to him and tell him her line is open, but while I’m walking, someone cuts in line. So then the [...]
Sup, TiVo,
You know, like, we’ve had some good times and some bad times. Like, the times you record stuff with Justin Theroux and Josh Charles. Those are good times. And the times when you record nine hours of Mad About You. Those are bad times.
We need to talk about your relationship with the DirecTV. I [...]
So, over on my favorite copyeditor’s blog (You Don’t Say), today’s post is about how many people are calling Sonia Sotomayor an immigrant, or a daughter of immigrants. She’s Puerto Rican. Puerto Rican citizens have been granted U.S. citizenship since 1917 (more than 90 years ago). Puerto Rico is part of the United States.
My curiosity [...]
I have:
• Rearranged my bedroom furniture
• Been to a doctor (I have problems, but not big ones)
• Watched half of Generation Kill (excellent, btw)
• Traveled a lot
• Worked a whole lot
• Gotten a haircut I enjoy very much
I wish I wasn’t so busy all the time. And I wish I didn’t hate fun so much.
So, in the middle of this month-and-a-half of crazy traveling and people visiting and events and stuff to do, yesterday I decided to rearrange my bedroom furniture so it makes sense. The room is L-shaped, but the natural place to put the bed (in one of the L ends that isn’t where the closet is, [...]
So, this weekend I’m going to Myrtle Beach (which, according to CNN, is on fire). Explainame this, weather people: How will it be 10 degrees warmer in D.C. than in Myrtle Beach? It has “Beach” in the name. It should, by definition, be warmer.
So, last night I came home from the airport around 7:30, came in and got settled and then went to move my car to a non-illegal parking space. When circling my block, I saw what I thought was a kitten up against the curb on the side of the street. I parked, and got out [...]
Last Tuesday I flew from DC to Tucson. It took a day, two flights (through Houston), and then I worked pretty much 12-hour (or longer) days Wed-Sat. Now it’s 6:22 a.m. local time and I’m in the Tuscon airport waiting to fly to Phoenix, then Houston, then DC. I get home at 6:53 p.m. eastern [...]
Uh huh. Zeppelin pun. Wanna make something of it?
So, yesterday, I went to my favorite coffee place for a latte before I drove out to IKEA to look for curtains (which I didn’t find). It’s a longish drive out to IKEA (about 30 minutes) and I was really tired/craving, so I got two lattes. They’re [...]
The ESPN.com front page right now contains two of the worst pun headlines I’ve ever seen in professional sportswriting: “Tar Nation” and “Heel of a Night.” Jeez, kind of blowing your load all at once ESPN. Why didn’t you save one of those for the next time UNC wins a championship (you know, it happens [...]
Okay, so I hear about Pandora all the time and so today, I’m in my office, about to start on some heavy proofreading and editing, so I go to Pandora and tell it stuff I like in hopes it will play me some stuff I’ve never heard/never heard of that’s new and interesting and wild.
I [...]
I has them.
(It’s white cake, with dark chocolate and coffee-flavored buttercream.)
Yes yes, y’all.
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
When people ask me why I don’t know a foreign language, I try to explain to them that I know English at least twice as well as a normal person, and that’s why I don’t feel like I really need to know another language. I don’t mean this in a braggy, self-righteous way. I mean [...]
Instead of buying a new one, I took my old one apart on Saturday to try and see what was wrong with it. The water/steam thing that pumps the water up from the tank into the filter/coffee basket area was possibly the grossest thing I’d ever seen. It isn’t supposed to be totally full of [...]
I need a new coffeemaker. Mine cannot make coffee anymore without dumping grounds and sludge into the pot. For the past five years or so, I’ve had this guy:
And it’s the perfect size to make 1 travel-tumblerful of coffee to drink in the car on the way to work and one little mug of coffee [...]
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
After not sleeping hardly at all since Saturday night, yesterday night I slept INCREDIBLY WELL, and I can really tell a difference in how I feel. I don’t feel like I have a weird cloud around my head anymore, and my coffee tastes better. Even my weird grossish diet food tastes better.
Now, if the weather [...]
It’s WFMU Pledge Marathon time again, baby. And to honor it, yesterday, the host of my favorite show co-hosted my other favorite show. It was a double whammy of awesome you can listen to right here.
Anyway, keep WFMU on the air and un-beholden to The Man by giving them your spare change. You know that [...]
Sometimes, I think the reason they used different actors for James Bond was at least partially for people to tell the movies apart. At different times all day “A View to a Kill,” “Moonraker” and “The Man with the Golden Gun” have been on the Starz or Encore channels. However, being how they ALL STARRED [...]
Thursday, February 26, 2009
I’ve lost enough weight now that a lot of my clothes don’t fit, and I have to put on several things every morning to find something that fits and goes together. I wouldn’t care so much, except it adds time in the mornings I don’t really budget for. That’s right. I’m a last-minute waker-upper.
I get [...]
Thursday, February 19, 2009
I have two problems that always, always compound each other:
1. I eat when I’m upset.
2. I’m bad at cooking when I’m upset.
This leads to some awful, awful things.
Last November, I said something on the phone without totally thinking, and then thought I hurt somebody’s feelings. I then made some French toast that was somehow charred [...]
Ten embarrassing ways in which I am disturbingly like Liz Lemon from “30 Rock.”
1. My fantasy vacation includes a turtle that brings me sandwiches.
2. If a guy apologized to me for smelling like frosting, I would marry him on the spot.
3. I occasionally take up and abandon knitting as a hobby.
4. People occasionally mistakenly assume [...]
Wednesday, February 4, 2009
Secret Celebrity crush Rahm Emanuel’s illegal basement apartment is 3 blocks from where I live. Too bad its un-legal-ness was exposed and he has to move. Wonder if there’s anything available on my block?
My mother does not know the difference between Will Ferrell (known for “Elf” and “Night at the Roxbury,” winner of a SpikeTV Guy’s Choice award for “funniest mo-fo”) and Colin Farrell (known for smoldering good looks and bad-boy antics, winner of a best actor Golden Globe for “In Bruges”).
I was telling her about “In Bruges,” [...]
I keep turning on the television and seeing my neighborhood on tv. Oh, sup; Bono down the street. Hey there.
In other news, they’ve started the road blocks and bridge closures and “no you can’t bring your umbrella near Pennsylvania Avenue” seizures. You can’t take a backpack, but you need to bring food, water and medication. [...]
A mac genius told me Saturday my powerbook will die any minute. This is bad news, especially since I can’t stand the glossy screens on the new Macbook/Macbook Pros. Of course, a non-gloss is available on the 17-inch Macbook Pro, but something about spending $3 grand I don’t have on power I don’t need just [...]
Tuesday, December 30, 2008
So, yesterday, they wouldn’t let me on my flight out of Dulles. My passport expires Jan. 25, 2010, but apparently, the country where you are going decides when your passport is expired to them. Some countries require your passport to be valid 6 months after your arrival date. Some 30 days. Some don’t care.
Costa Rica [...]
Tuesday, December 23, 2008
So last night, at the Container Store (which is exactly what it sounds like, if you’re not familiar), I’m in line and when I’m next, and shuffle down to the open register, the woman clerking it closes it and apologizes. I shuffle back to the line (which formed while I was shuffling, so those people [...]
Friday, December 19, 2008
I always thought that the reason I only found comics like Dilbert marginally funny is because I never worked in a regular office. Now that I do, and I still don’t find them all that hilarious, I realize it’s probably that they actually just aren’t that funny.
I leave for nine days in Costa Rica in [...]