I have little patience for things I’m horrible at. Maybe this is just human, but I think I’m worse about this than a lot of people. Examples: because I started out a “slow” kid in P.E., I never really bothered trying to improve. Shuttle Run for the Presidential Fitness Test? Meh… [...]
Entries from May 2008
May 25, 2008
Signs of Geekiness
You want to add subjects to all of the songs in your iTunes music library so you can pull up songs dealing with themes such as “childhood,” “home,” and “days” with ease.
You want to memorize the PLUs for all produce you frequently buy. Just because. You have candid conversations about this with grocery store employees. [...]
May 21, 2008
Over My Head
I’ve begun to catalog in my sleep. I dream of animals telling me about new subject terms. I get frustrated because they can’t write the terms down, and I know I won’t remember them in the morning. I solve XML problems gracefully, teasing out the important parts, leaving the rest like a [...]
May 18, 2008
Simple Things That Are Exceedingly Beautiful, Volume IV
(photo by FriendlyMade, available for $11 at her Etsy store)
Power lines, forgotten in alley ways, connecting us all with a little buzz that eventually blends in with all the other city sounds, imperceptible until you try to hear it. The tall, splintery posts fit the urban landscape so well it’s almost as if they’re rooted [...]
May 16, 2008
Quote of the Day
From a colleague at another school:
“I like to say that I create forms in response to stress. They give me a sense of control in a chaotic world. Some people go with interpretive dance – I open up Excel and go to town.”
May 15, 2008
The Middle of the Night Doesn’t Make Cats Less Lonely…
…or me less anxious. My anxiety has been problematic this week, particularly in the middle of the night. Growing up I always had this picture in my head of anxious people with protuding eyeballs and startled looks on their faces. I think somehow it came from this family medicine book my parents [...]
May 11, 2008
Dearth of Quarters
Most of the battle of doing laundry comes from a sad, sorry, pathetic lack of quarters. Why can’t those machines accept dollars and other coins? It’s so annoying!
Crazy, crazy weekend — One of my very best friends from high school was in town. Every time I see her, I worry a little that we’ll have [...]
May 8, 2008
Simple Things That Are Exceedingly Beautiful, Volume III
“Popcorn” in Spanish is “palomitas,” or little doves.
(image of popcorn from wikimedia commons (air popped = best ever))
May 7, 2008
Not Waiting It Out
So I was going to wait out the sinus infection I developed late last week because antibiotics make me nervous (like I’m not already neurotic enough) (that makes it sound like there’s something in the drugs that make me nervous, which isn’t the case — it’s just the fact of taking them, throwing everything off [...]
