I’d like to congratulate AJ and her Last.fm account on an impressive milestone. Back when we were roommates, she dragged me into using it too. I’m at 72,017, so I’m getting there. I’ll catch up yet.
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It’s not an advancement, really
The Internet, and Facebook in particular, just lulls me into feeling connected to people to whom I am no longer actually connected.
Or to whom I was never connected at all.
Canines, cupcakes, and the hazards of butter
I hadn’t made cupcakes in a while, so I decided to make some up for my trip northward to see Naomi and Mark’s new place, and to meet their new doggie. DOGGIE! I didn’t have the supplies on hand for homemade dog treats, but human cupcakes I could do.
I pulled out Amy Sedaris’s book, where the …
I <3 doggies
I’d like to congratulate Naomi and Mark on their new arrival.
I’ll have a glass of white whine, thanks, or: another typical Saturday
I hate being an adult. And not for any of the normal reasons, like “people expect me to pay bills” and “I have to be nice to people I don’t like” and “I have to go to work even when I don’t want to.”
No, my problem since my late teens has been that people socialize in …
Yeah, actually, I am fat.
In my head, I’ve been working on paragraphs of an essay on the “You’re not fat!” phenomenon for a while now. I’ve reached a point where I say “I’m fat” in the same way that I say “I have brown hair.” I say it in normal conversation, to explain why I can’t wear high heels …
On knitting and dinosaurs
AJ and I have a particular and inimitable way of talking to each other. Or maybe it’s just that when I talk to her, I pick up some of her more entertaining verbal tics.
AJ: “What would the life form do in a tranquilized body?“
“Well, it might take up knitting – nothing more violent than that.“
– Kirk …
You can, however, time travel to 1987
The following is my visual tribute to this blog post.
Journalist/bureaucrat cage match
My friend Irisira, a lovely and talented state bureaucrat, wrote a fascinating entry earlier tonight where she took apart the misleading statements and factual errors in a Buffalo News article about the state hiring freeze.
I’ve spent enough time in state agencies to know some of the issues, but not in this much detail. Though maybe …
October 6, 2008
AJ and I went to Big Lots to look for odd groceries and so I could buy a bookshelf. I didn’t find a bookshelf I liked that would fit in my car, but we did find odd groceries.
This is a close-up of the label on the popcorn bag. The truly unappetizing brand name is …