Those annoying girls on the bus. They were all like, “My 21st birthday – I remember most of it.” “I would’ve been ok if I’d stopped. I had 3 shots of rum on the way and then a vodka cranberry when we got there, and it was a double. And then another.” There was also … [Read more…]
Or, the weekend, from the normal annoying-ness of middle class life, to more inspirational activities. Friday was evidently my day to blow things up. I was working at home because my last three (out of 24) student advising appointments were by phone. First I blew up a website by installing conflicting plugins. Then I blew … [Read more…]
But maybe I still will. These are my Instagrams from Trump’s 1st hundred days, January to March 2017. My plan was to print them on cloth and then bind them at the top, like a “book” of upholstery fabric samples.
My cooking has been good but not great for the last week or so – The worst was Monday. Dinner was a pretty good idea: Marcella Hazen’s lemon pasta (simple, it’s cream, lemon juice and zest, fettuccine, and Parmesan), salad with the end of a honey-mustard bottled salad dressing and a few shots of Rachael’s … [Read more…]
Or malaise. Or something. It was lightly snowing while I walked downtown Tuesday, to catch the bus to Chicago to see Mozart. Like I said in my last post, it’s last time of the year when everyone starts trying to feel good because it’s spring, but I’m not ready, and also have this guilty feeling … [Read more…]
… When it’s trying to be spring, and I’m just not ready. And, the last few years, I feel like, “Wait a minute we haven’t even really had winter yet, how can it be spring?” I first remember really feeling this way, not ready for spring but without the guilt about not having had winter … [Read more…]
As far as I know, both Sun Prairie Jimmy, and Punxatawney Phil (the real groundhog as far as a Pittsburgh girl like me is concerned) predicted six more weeks of winter on February 2nd. But here we are on March 3, a mere four weeks later, and it kind of seems like winter is over. … [Read more…]
