I’m more into Independence Day, Thanksgiving, Christmas. Valentine’s Day, Easter, Labor Day. El Dia de los Muertos, Flag Day, Labor Day, President’s Day… Anything that doesn’t require dressing up, basically…
Costumes I remember:
Angel (I think I was 2, maybe I only remember the pictures and the nightgown that I wore for the next [...]
Words are funny — it astounds me that groups of letters or phonemes combine to make sense… Not just sense, but complex language. And the language we use and ingest creates the thoughts we have and give, not only in a block-by-block way (several of the right kinds of words make a sentence), [...]
Sometimes my job gets a little monotonous. The content itself is interesting, or has potential to be interesting, but really some days I just feel like I’m entering data — title, date, materials, dimensions, subjects, etc., etc., etc. New artist in the database? Check a few reliable sources for correct information (preferred [...]
This is revised from an e-mail from a few weeks back…
This probably sounds bad, but I find approximately 87% of the general population completely intolerable for more than a few minutes at a time. I sometimes think this percentage is actually even higher, but even 88% sounds just a little too misanthropic. I would claim [...]
Look who I spent my afternoon with (along with several hundred others):
(For you non-Coloradoans, that’s Senator Ken Salazar behind Senator Clinton.) We were only about 30 feet away from them! I like being in a battleground state, but it does make me nervous! Coloradoans keep in mind that you can vote early [...]
…But not in a good way! Starbucks recently switched from Silk soy milk to something new. But here’s the thing: the new stuff is even sweeter than the super-sweetened Silk!! Why would they do this? Why is there this idea out there that soy milk needs to be sweet? [...]
If we start counting with my freshman year of college, and if we don’t subtract for winter and summer breaks and studying abroad for six months and moving to Fort Collins for six months, I’ve been in Denver for nine years. Even if we do subtract all of those things, I’ve been here a [...]
The Denver Botanic Gardens and the Denver Zoo have free admission today, thanks to SCFD! The weather is beautiful! Get out and enjoy the flora and fauna!
Additionally, how is it that I’ve lived here for nine years (albeit not always as a student), and never knew that students could get into the Colorado Symphony Orchestra [...]
…But some of you might.
Have you ever said this to someone:
“You know, it’ll be like one of those breathalizer things that they install in people’s cars, only it’ll be for the internet! So you can’t chat/e-mail/blog when you’ve been drinking!” I have.
I haven’t had this problem in a while, but I can’t say I’ve never [...]
I’m keeping up, even getting ahead on this project! I’m nearing the end of week 15, and I’ve finished 17 books so far. This morning I finished Keith Gessen’s All the Sad Young Literary Men, which is basically about being in your 20s in the late 1990s and early 2000s. It’s [...]
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