Monthly Archives: December 2009
Holidays, in a Nutshell
I had this big, long essay planned about the holidays, but I’m tired, and everyone does big long essays about the holidays, anyway. I have often wondered how many new hits a search for the phrase “my crazy family” yields in the days immediately following Thanksgiving and Christmas.
Anyway:
1. Christmas Eve, we went to the “contemporary” [...]
Certifiable Mail
I spent some time this afternoon working on the closed-captioning and peacock tattoo idea and it went nowhere. All it did was make me want to get another tattoo. I also realized with some alarm that the Smile, Hon sex issue deadline is a mere week away, so if I want to submit something, I [...]
Inspiration
Plenty on Christmas to come. Let’s just say that in York, PA, every Christmas is a white Christmas. For now I am much too tired to write about it, but I do want to get down a few thoughts I had before the twenty-four hour marathon of family mayhem began.
In the past week I [...]
The Big Envelope
I remember it from my senior year of high school, and from my senior year of college: going to the mailbox every day, hoping to find The Big Envelope: The Big Envelope from the schools to which I applied, The Big Envelope that would inform by its girth whether I had been accepted or denied, [...]
P-Power
Recently, I bought two pairs of tights from Target, both of which ripped at the crotch the first time I wore them. I am alarmed. Either Target needs better quality control, or something down there is trying to bust out when I am not paying attention. Is it the Incredible Hooch*? Dr. Jekyll and Mr. [...]
Work It Out
1. Tonight was my first bit of exercise in over a year that was not in a yoga studio, or outside. Being back in a gym felt fine, although I had conveniently blocked from my memory the inevitable forced tv watching while on cardio equipment. I spent forty-five minutes on an arc trainer*, trying to [...]
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Decade in Review
As we wind down not only another year but a whole decade, it seems that every other website has a top ten whatever of the past ten years. So, I’ll jump into the fray and add my own top ten list for the naughty aughties.
Top Ten Years of the Past Decade
10. 2002
9. 2003
8. 2000
7. 2005
6. [...]
Apocalypse sNow
From the sound of things on Friday, our region was to be struck by one to two feet of apocalypse, but it turned out we got one to two feet of snow, instead. My classes were tiny on Friday and the traffic was ridiculous as people scrambled to buy their (everybody, now) bread, milk, and [...]
Now Now Now
Here is how my day started: intense pain on one side of my head from sleeping with my ear bent into my face, and general ick from a dream that a shot glass came out of my nose (it was encased in lovely crystal, though).
Still, the day was productive. I taught a class, picked up [...]
Notes from the Car