Posts Tagged ‘ARGH’
A New Way of Seeing
Wow, am I cranky. Peeps, I am so cranky I can hardly believe it. I think I would be lying if I said I don’t know why, so I’ll just try to talk you through it. 1. I am scheduled to do a half-marathon on trail October 2. That’s this weekend, and I have been [Read More]
Dog under Desk
…This is what happens when I am in a terrible mood. Ergo, Sprocket is under my desk. Entirely. Where he does not fit. Here is the proof. This is also proof that I am in a terrible mood. I have never tried writing a post while I am in a terrible mood, so this will [Read More]
The 30-Day Experiment: How’d It Go?
About a month ago, I told you all that I was going to do five things for 30 days straight. So, what were the results? Here: Drink a glass of water every morning: 100% Make our bed every morning: 100%* Write a one-page diary entry longhand every day: 93% Go to the gym or do [Read More]
A brief intermission and a public announcement
Aside from the basics off eating breathing, drinking water, I’ve never done anything for 30 days straight. Not in my recent memory, anyway, and not anything that I’ve known would be good for me. Maybe in my angsty college years I kept a daily diary for 30 days [Read More]
‘sTrueth! A good time was had by all.
Jim and I spent the weekend at the Trues’. I had a ridiculously busy Friday that involved a ton of networking (which, it seems, could be a full-time job even if you’re not actually following up on any of the networking with anything concrete); took some time off [Read More]
Day of Birth, Girls’ Night Out, and the Weekend of Bad Photos and Gorgeous Houses
Oh my, oh my. What a week. I turned 35 last Tuesday and did it in the company of some good friends, some I hadn’t seen in a year or so. It was a terrific evening: Jody and I saw a movie that a friend produced, and then hopped into a taxi cab to meet [Read More]
Book publishing goes all Michael-Jackson on me
There’s been some hue-and-cry lately over Justine Larbalestier’s new book, Liar. It’s not because it’s about a black girl who is a compulsive liar; it’s not because it’s a young-adult book about a black girl who’s a compulsive liar; [Read More]
Odds and Ends
We leave for the airport to begin our trip to Zurich in about two hours. There are a few things on my mind. 1. I’ve been slowly falling apart over the past week. First, I banged my shin on our square bed-post. This happens every once in awhile, with varying degrees of [Read More]
