Late Summer: One Person, Two Perspectives

I think as long as I’m in this job, late summer will be my least favorite time of the year.  It’s okay to have a least favorite time of the year, right?  Even in a job that’s good, that you like?  Yes.  And this is it.  Transition isn’t easy, and it’s always a time of [...]

List of Incoherence

1.) Chocolate-covered salt sounds freaking good. Have I posted about this yet? No, I think it’s been a feature of two dead posts…
2.) I had a goal to cook for myself tonight, and did. I made pasta (gluten-free Tinkyada, which is delicious if you cook it for 4 minutes less than the [...]

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I keep writing posts, but they fall apart, I save them as drafts (which is basically a blog post graveyard), and you don’t get to see them.  Sorry.  They’re posts like gluten-free baked goods — they seem like a good idea, but fall apart quickly because they’re missing a crucial ingredient…
When I figure out what [...]

Failed Attempts at Frugality

A few weeks ago I decided it was ridiculous to keep spending $17 on tiny bottles of natural facial cleansers (from MyChelle), and I could go back to spending half that amount on the regular (gigantic) kind I used to use (Cetaphil).  First my face started breaking out — whatever, I figured it would clear [...]

Misc.

1.) I’m excited about Karen O.’s (of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs) new solo project, Native Korean Rock.
2.) I’m also excited about trying out a new toy: Mint.com. I’ve used Microsoft Money for several years now, but my online services are about to expire, and I don’t really feel like paying them anymore. I’m [...]

Different for Everyone

When I was 12, I thought the key to being liked by my peers, success in junior high and life thereafter, and happiness in general was a pair of Guess jeans (the kind with the triangular logo on the back pocket, probably a light blue wash) and a horizontally-striped Guess logo shirt. It seems [...]

Chain!

Maria has tagged me in a chain blog (you should check out her blog, too — she finds something beautiful and happy about every single day, and is fantastic!)! I didn’t have time/energy to respond last night, as I’ve spent a couple of days in Boulder at a conference (I presented! It was good!). [...]

Love/Hate Denver

This city feels suffocatingly small lately, and I feel the urge to either remove myself or certain others from its limits. But it still didn’t deserve to be written up as hokey and backwards by the NYT. Examples:
“some delegates may find it hard to see the gold here without first striking the surface”
“familiarize [...]

Project: 52 Books in 52 Weeks

Disclaimer: This was not an original idea by any means, but inspired by the following:

first and foremost, a friend who did this last year and my admiration of her quest,
the sad fact that it took me nearly three months to finish Anna Karenina,
and the overwhelming sense that there are so many good books out there, [...]

Some (Insignificant) Dreams Really Do Come True

Early this morning I advised Christopher, who’s staying on my couch of late due to recent deluge in his apartment, not to wear Crocs to work (or anywhere, ever, but that’s a losing battle).  Fourteen hours later, I found myself at Walgreens deciding between the pink and orange Hawaiian Tropic flip-flops and the pink and [...]