Years from now people will ask each other "Where were you.. when Sarah Palin went from the most talked about woman in the world to someone nobody cares about. Oh yeah also (more)
Years from now people will ask each other "Where were you.. when Sarah Palin went from the most talked about woman in the world to someone nobody cares about. Oh yeah also (more)
Confu (more)
I fixed a washing machine today oh man I am sick, (more)
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How are you (more)
I'm still broke and working only part-time (more)
That said...I've become a bit obsessed with Ugly Betty. I feel the need to preface this obsession when I admit it to (more)
A gr (more)
I cannot get ahead. I'm working 20 hours per week at $11/hr. To supplement this, I've applied to a few other positions, expecti (more)
A few months ago, before Josh moved to Missouri and Lauren and I realized we were stuck in Ohio for a few more months, we convened in Cleveland where we had a lovel (more)
Boston began to loom even more largely than it had been. September! Can you imagine? And yet with each passing day and well, each coming night, I grew more panicked, anxious. It's not the leaving, obviously, it's the money. And you know (more)
My Dad comes home tonight and promptly asks: "Hey, Lan, what's wrong? You don't seem very happy lately.""Well...I'm not, essentially," I almost whisper. I hate admitting these things to him, as it almost always ends up the way it has tonight.
"What (more)
No matter, you've got me for a little while longer yet. At (more)
What has transpired since we last talked? How might I possibly hold your interest? Hmm.Essentially, my (more)
I've meant to write this for hours now, but I find that I'm so much better in a moving vehicle and that once I'm on stable land, velocity slowed, the green ink hastily strewn across my hand serves only as a reminder of my meaning to write, not of having written.
It's am (more)
If this were an honest exhaustion, a "my body aches and my hands are dirty" sort of exha (more)
Days like these cut right through me. It's warm, beautiful, essentially barefeet weather and my favorite memories of days like these invariably formed right around the same moments I did in lonely southeast Ohio. Flip flops and messenger bags, a familiar tale. (more)
I'd been counting down the days, the hours, basically the minutes until our pre-move Boston exploration--our first glimpse of the city from the air, our first wide-eyed stare at the city from the ground, our first walk down the city's ancient stre (more)
1: The classy new Wynn Las Vegas

2: The Horseshoe Casino and Hotel in Tunica Mississippi
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I went to the walk-in clinic the other day because I had a toenail pro (more)
The in-my-sleep familiarity of opening car door, getting into car (more)
I made a veggie burger and sat down in front of Gilmore reruns on TV because I don't like to eat alone and I like my silence voluntary. Pausing for a commercial break (more)
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I haven't watched all season. I was in Pgh when it started, I'd been an imploded mess during the heart of the season, and I didn't pick it up again until a week and a half ago, but now that I'm here, I seem to have missed it some (more)
No--no, I admit that's not true, I've sadly no napkin and I haven't been scribbling anything at all, but I ha (more)
I'm essentially working a lot and sleeping when I can--getting terribly sick in the meantime, and making new friends from whom I'm ir (more)
Hi, how are you?
A beautiful day, this. Rainy, sunny--tonight, the sky was pink, perfect. A cowo (more)
I shoved my copy of the Joan & Meredith CD into my purse this morning, intending to listen in simple splendor on my way home, but as I g (more)
Context: I have at least two mini presentations every T/Th (more)
The temperature cannot be more than sixty-two or sixty-three degrees, the sky is broken by expanses of hurricane-inspired clouds and the sound the trees mak (more)
Now if you'll excuse me.. (more)
Everyone okay? Can I get anyone a glass of water or some anxiety medication or anything?
Today was my second day at my new job--my first scheduled, full day and while I laughed and joked with my officemates and while I got a few things done and y� (more)
When I started out of the drive of the third administrative build I'd been in today, I thought to start this with "I think what I need more than anything right now is a Boots." I meant that I was hungry for food and starved for natural light and that I wanted a trian (more)
I got an email yesterday afternoon, an urgent one, asking me to call right away the guy who turned me down for the job I wanted a month ago, as he had an interesting (more)
Weigh in and send some suggesti (more)
I've been absolutely torturing myself for a little while now. My stomach is in a constant knot, my head throbs, joints ache, my eyes hurt, I can't sleep or get up in the morning, I am incredibly short with people who absolutely don't deserve it, I am o (more)
I'm sitting here staring out at the sun glittering madl (more)
I can't remember at time in my life wherein I was so consciously aware of external limitations and internal fractures and frays. I've become a big ball of loose wires, I have. (more)
Lauren and I mean to have Wednesday Night Coffee each week and only once have we actually done it. We usually get together once (more)
For the past couple of weeks, I've posted a different photo of either (more)
Very easily, I could list the things about the day that made it one of my new (more)
Driving about 52 down a local two lane, singing my heart out along with Robert Plant's garbled nonsense, drumming valiantly on my steering wheel, having spent a modest $50 on things I really needed (birthday cards for friends, organic dark chocolate, a bud vase), absolutely r (more)
I had a phone interview on Monday, my first. A few days prior to the call, I was absolutely stoked--this was my first step (more)
It's more a conversation I wish (more)
For as long as I can recall, I have had (more)
This may, I realize, be absolutely foolish if not pos (more)
For ten minutes, I was coughing and sneezing like a kitten in a dust cloud (where did that image come from?) and my Dad poked his head in my doorway, just to check. :)
I (more)
I neglected Franzen tonight for a passive flipping of the channels, stopping on a Gospel music special for my Mom. Granted, I am quite sentimental toward a good hymn, bu (more)
Anyhow, so (more)
I want to be the kind of person who tells stories, see. In twenty years, I wa (more)
I left in plenty of time, I did. Yet still, yes, (more)
I was carrying two grocery bags and a sheet of stamps (40 (more)
Last weekend, Josh met Lauren and (more)
In sooth I know not why I am so sad:
It wearies me; you say it wearies you;
But how I caught it, found it, or came by it,
What stuff 'tis made of, whereof it is born,
I am to learn;
And such a wantwit sadness makes of me
That I have much ado to kno (more)
Thanks. :) (more)
Thursday night and into Friday morning and even Friday afternoon, I was awake. The whole time (more)