In which yesterday was guru purnima. (I celebrated with a Lalita Sahasranama and some midnight meditation under the full moon.) “The great Adi Shankara (the first Shankaracharya) of the 8th century summarized the entirety of Advaita Vedanta (non-dualistic philosophy) in six stanzas. When a young boy of eight, wandering in the Himalayas seeking to find […]
In which I share my quiet Saturday afternoon. I live upstairs in my grandmother’s house in a mustard yellow room that hasn’t been redone since the 70’s. This is the landing: I keep my chrome citrus juicer and my bowling ball on the landing because I don’t have places for them in my room and […]
In which I’m trying to figure out this back-to-school thing. When I hatched my spend-a-year-getting-certs scheme, EUC was a given. The Training Benefits facilitator even told me I’d get them. Then time passed, and EUC expired 16 fucking days before my benefits ran out, and now I’m using my training benefits months before I’d expected […]
In which I wanna post but don’t really have anything to say and am doing it anyway! The latest WordPress upgrade looks nice! I’ll have to upgrade my dad’s installation this weekend. I’m using a new template. I like it. Do you like it? Amazon is pissing me off. It’s been three days and they […]
In which I complain about living in a state with a 9.1% unemployment rate. I just read a job listing at WorkSource. The job is called PT ORDER ENTRY SPECIALIST II. The description says, and I quote verbatim, The FT Order Entry Specialist II will check accuracy of and enter orders for equipment and parts, […]
In which this is a blog post containing words and pictures. I spent most of last week reading, knitting, and watching old television series. I watched all of Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip and a season of Black Books and a season of Spaced. I worked on wisp and the art nouveau poncho. To […]
In which there’s a free-form ramble on the topic of writing. This is a zero draft with only basic editing. People keep telling me to write, that I should write, that I should “be a writer,” and I do write. I write hundreds of thousands of words every year, but the secret I know is […]
In which I ain’t got no money. I knew my UI benefits were about to run out so I checked my post office box once a week. But then they didn’t run out, and I got complacent and blew off getting my mail for a few weeks. Until today, when my deposit was uncharacteristically late. […]
In which I wanna bitch about financial stuff. As you may or may not know, I’m not a legitimate adult-type person. I’m actually one of those financially marginalized creatures who literally cannot cash a check on her own. Anywhere. Ever. In fact, I’m so marginalized that I can’t use my own money without paying fees […]
In which I keep you up-to-date. I went to a Walla Walla Sweets baseball game last week. (Yeah, we have a new team. Fun!) It was FUCKING FREEZING, but I had a good time, especially after I was loaned a down parka. There was a wind you just would not believe. Cold June-uary is cold. […]
