I seem to have the worst luck with my neighbors. I don’t know any of them. The ones that I did know have since moved on. Last week, for instance, I met my downstairs neighbor when he started pounding on my door one morning. Turns out the work the plumber was doing created a hole […]
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Tips for Keeping Down Food (by Claire): 1. Do not watch 28 Days Later. While eating. 2. Do not watch any medical show, in particular one where they show a gunshot wound to the head. While eating. 3. Do not watch The HIlls. While eating. 4. Do not watch— Actually, I just wouldn’t recommend watching […]
I have no idea why I do this. I just spent 10 minutes trying to figure out one word from a quote from the latest Gossip Girl episode. There is something seriously wrong with me. But I totally figured it out. Turns out (if I guessed correctly) it’s a screenname. So, do I win anything? […]
Well I can’t say this year hasn’t been interesting so far. Mine has been a step forward here and there followed by a giant leap back. Which is, believe me, an odd way to live. But no more. I need to refocus my life. So I’ve decided to quit my part time job. I started […]
I have been feeling once again neglectful of my little rant and since I couldn’t think of anything to write about I thought I would migrate in another month of rants. And I came across this gem: Another dream I don’t care to analyze: I dreamt the other night that I was pregnant with a […]
Blergh. One would think that having an apartment that stays regularly at 75 degrees would preclude one from getting a cold. One would think. But hell if I haven’t contracted the plague. Not that I’m surprised. Ever since college this is when I get sick. It would be a stressful period of finals and papers […]
I am perhaps the least Sporty Spice girl ever. Don’t really watch sports, never participated in sports (which I believe has cost the world many unintentionally hi-larious moments), not all that interested in sports. Which is why I am constantly amused at the high ratio of interest to ownership of sports paraphernalia that is always […]
When I moved into this apartment (about four years ago) there were pretty much no other people with wireless connections nearby. And I know this because I desperately tried leaching off any stable connection I could find. And I could never find one. But these days there are around ten at any given time, not […]
I am currently finding a home within my home for some new furniture. Not so exciting, but a bit like a game of Tetris when you have a smallish apartment such as I do. You tend to have to find creative ways to fit everything in so the furniture doesn’t pile up to the top […]
In the past few snow-filled days I have found myself more on the road than not (thanks in no small part to being stuck in a traffic clusterfuck for four hours yesterday) and have noticed that our resident Classic Rawk! radio station has a new billboard ad campaign with such zippy slogans as “Our Lawyer […]
I have some thoughts: One: I haven’t been writing much lately. But I think I totally made up for it with that awesome snowglobe a few posts back. Two: I was driving down Franklin the other day. No, seriously. I was. Anyway. The old Dairy Queen that is now a non-regal frozen treat place was […]
I’ve been chatting back and forth with my erstwhile boss as she has been preparing to depart for warmer climes. California, here she comes. And she’s a big texter. I actually hadn’t really used that feature on my phone until now, so I’ve been taking some time to get used to it. And I can […]
And… we’re into December. Fitting, that. As we’re getting snow dumped on us as I type. I was out driving in it earlier and had forgotten how much fun it can be. There’s something about taking ten minutes to brush all the snow off your car and then slip-sliding down a deserted street that makes […]
Happy Thanksgiving. Or Happy Thursday if you’re not into that sort of thing. I’m off (eventually) to the family events. Which will be… well, same as it ever was. Not much variation at those types of gatherings. I occasionally fantasize about mixing things up a bit. Like going really crazy and wearing jeans or something. […]
So in an attempt to actually follow through with a theme, on my way home today I swore at some passing dick of a motorist and called him an ass knuckle. And after my initial thought (“where the hell did that come from?”) I realized it was another random pairing of words that could be […]
So a few thoughts as we journey into this pit of hellish torture more commonly referred to as the week ahead (it’s gonna be a bad one, folks): • A few weeks ago I saw this completely awesome Lucky Strike cigarette case at a shop by my mom’s house. A little worse for wear but […]
The Hold Steady were in town for a show at the State Theatre on Friday. I have yet to understand the appeal of going to a rock show at the State Theatre. The music is best appreciated in a dark, smoky, crowded bar where you have to dodge the lit cigarette of the drunk guy […]
When I was about seven years old, my mom and dad sat me down out of the blue one day and explained to me that, even though they loved me very very much, they didn’t love each other anymore and so they wouldn’t be living together anymore. I listened very intently, nodded a lot, cried […]
It seems like every time I go in here to write something, it looks different. And why would I want to change the color of my text anyway? And yet it still insists that using the Ctrl key will do useful things like save and publish. I can’t say I concur. I was going grocery […]
So five years ago today, we lost one of the greats: Paul Wellstone, US Senator for Minnesota. He was killed along with his wife, daughter and several staffers when his plane went down near Eveleth, MN. There’s nothing that can be said about him that someone hasn’t already done a much better job. So I […]
My site is currently 150% down down down. Which is a perfect excuse not to work (“but gosh, I can’t send email!”). Random Story: I’m attempting to come up with some new curse words. I was driving home tonight and was watching this car weave violently and haphazardly from lane to lane, nearly clipping a […]