OK, so I’m reading a manuscript for work. It’s a book that’s being published next year. I can’t tell you what it’s called, or what it’s about, or who it’s by, or anything interesting and useful, actually.
But I can say that getting a chance to read a kickass book, before the rest of the [...]
his week my roommate and I tore through our closets and got rid of anything that was ugly, broken, didn’t fit anymore, or was a painful reminder of goofy summer camp puffy paint experiments.
Since it was obvious we had blinders on when it came to our own stuff (why else would we have kept [...]
Ah, the mantra of the springtime flu season.
I don’t know why I’m always so shocked when, like annual clockwork, I get sick just as the tulips start sprouting. It always starts the same way: a niggling feeling in the throat, a bit of a stuffy head, slow and achy joints. I like to tell [...]
Heroes are great and all, but give me a villain any day of the week.
Think about it: who would you rather hang with, Superman or Lex Luthor? Lex probably has 700 satellite channels and every sports car ever made. What’s Superman got? An inferiority complex wrapped up with some cosmic-sized daddy issues? No thank you. [...]
While I was home for Christmas, my mom, an 8th grade schoolteacher, complained that her kids “didn’t know the names of anything.” They couldn’t identify a cabbage palm from a coconut palm, a mockingbird from a sparrow, was her example. This was part of a larger complaint about her kids not having any natural curiosity, [...]
Today is my 8th annual Fake Birthday, my favorite day of the year. Because I was born very near Christmas, I always got shafted on presents and parties. It’s hard to get your friends together when everyone’s out of town for the holidays, you know. Also, all my birthday gifts were wrapped in snowflake paper. [...]
can remember very little except avatars and screen names. I am GOOD with those. But faces, names, and dates escape me.
This is what happened to me this morning on the train. The two sides of my brain were fighting, like always.
Hey, don’t I know that guy? I think I do. I should go [...]
Yesterday I realized I wouldn’t have time to go grocery shopping until about January 2010, so I asked my roommate if he could grab the list of necessary items from the kitchen counter and do the shopping for me.
“Of course!” my roommate said, no doubt feeling very chuffed at the chance to prove [...]
Maybe it’s early-onset nostalgia or something, but I’ve been connecting with more and more old friends on Facebook. People I haven’t seen since high school. One such friend recently posted a meme along the lines of, “Tell me one memory you have of me. I’m curious to see what sticks out in your mind.”
And [...]
