How to answer the “When are you going to get MARRIED?!” questions [in ways that are less abrasive than "None of your @#&*ing business."]
[When this posts, I'll be attending a wedding and hopefully dodging these kinds of questions. Wish me luck on dodging the well-meaning nosy relatives. In the meantime, here's some of what I've prepared to say without being evicted from the wedding and disowned from my family.] a) Ignore the question. Repeatedly, if you have to....
I’m 30 Today. [Warning: Cheeseball post ahead.]
When I turned ten, I had a slumber party, and I had high hopes for it turning out a certain way. I drew up a schedule. There were plans: arrangements for when we were going to order pizza – in the middle of the movie, so it would arrive in time for us to eat...
A Letter to: The Dude Who Threw a Beer Can at my Head at the Glitch Art Festival
You weren’t like most of the people at the show – hip enough not to talk to one another, or just awkward enough to seem hip. It was refreshing to see someone attending with enthusiasm, even if you weren’t familiar with what the work was about, or what the purpose of the gallery space was....
A Window into my Week: Rosie the Roomba is sick.
Rosie the Roomba hasn’t been up to the task lately. Having had a taste of life with floors that aren’t covered in dog hair, I’m trying to get her fixed up. The multimeter says that the batteries are working fine, so I might have to learn to use a soldering iron tomorrow.
Moving In Together: How It’s Working With Chris and Me
Chris and I moved in together about a year and a half ago. We lived with roommates at first, and then last July we got our own place – a two-room studio apartment in Clifton. In January, we moved to an enormous one-bedroom in Humboldt Park, and it’s been splendid. When we merged our stuff,...
I Made This: X-Ray Ivy
This was a complete accident – I was experimenting with the same effect I used to create Janice’s repeating glitter background for her blog, in hopes of creating a repeating pattern of ivy. Note to self: ivy and glitter do not work the same way.
My Roomba Needs a Name.
I finally bought the battery that my secondhand Roomba needed. I’ve been running it 2-3 times a day, and dog hair has seriously ceased to exist in other locations than where it belongs [on the dog]. It wanders from room to room, occasionally needing assistance when it chokes on a sock or sucks up an...
Full Disclosure: On Cool
The first place I recognized what Cool was was in Mrs. Jackson’s third-grade classroom. Oh, yeah, I’d used the word “cool” ad nauseum before. My babysitter had given me a My Little Pony paper doll kit in kindergarden and I’d immediately exclaimed, “Cool!” I wore cool shoes that had panda-shaped velcro closures and cool black...
Faithful Friend: 5.13.2011
This blog doesn’t have nearly enough pictures of my dog. So here he is. Hachiko is named after that other dog with the same name. [Yeah, the one from the film.] He’s an incredibly intelligent border collie with a penchant for raising his eyebrows at me whenever he knows I’m lying, drunk, or withholding food...
On Quality of Life and Money: A Survey of Sorts
What amount of money is necessary right now, if I just handed you a wad of cash in a one-off kind of deal, to make a significant difference in your quality of life?
How to Work From Home
Today I'm going to give you a rundown on how I've made working from home work for me.
Five Reasons Why I Love Working From Home
Since I moved to Chicago in January, I’ve been working remotely for my old job, plus a couple of extra clients on the side. I can’t tell you how amazing it’s been. Here’s why: 1. I can start my actual work earlier, because I don’t have a commute. I used to think I wasn’t a...
