in which THIS IS GETTING PRETTY EXCITING, GUYS went over and loitered awhile this afternoon during the scope and inspection, and IT’S SUCH A GREAT HOUSE the double closets in the master bedroom, the en suite, the storage in the laundry room, the covered patio, the fun open area between kitchen and living room that […]
In which my NEW PLATES have ARRIVED! I now have service for six instead of merely service for four. This is truly the radiant glory of middle age: having six each of three sizes of plates and one size of bowl, that mostly-but-don’t-entirely-match my existing dishes (because they no longer make my pattern)! It’ll be […]
In which, well, why don’t we just stop having it? Another angry hot-take about how bad sex is always the man’s fault: On the Ansari/#metoo front, nobody seems to be willing to say that maybe, just maybe, women don’t typically enjoy meaningless sexual encounters. It’s the elephant in the room. Because clearly, we don’t. We […]
In which I keep lecturing people about what’s wrong with this show and they don’t want to hear it, so I’m going to blog it for my own amusement! I’ve heard it’s possible that HBO will lock in as many as five seasons of ‘Westworld,’ an episodic TV reboot of the 1973 movie of the […]
In which there are verses. O foremost of men, listen to the merits and demerits, as we indicate, that respectively arise from associating with what is good and what is bad. As cloth, water, sesame-seeds and ground are perfumed by their association with flowers, so qualities are derived from association. Association with the fools produces […]
In which job hunting is pissing me off, or maybe bumming me out, or both. I get these emails with exclamation points in them from various temp agencies — well, there don’t really seem to be any temp agencies anymore as much as recruiters — telling me about jobs I may be suitable for! When […]
In which I complain for a long time about not being able to find a job I want (i.e. that doesn’t suck in pay or hours or location). Also, the right still believes in (the thoroughly debunked) trickle-down theory and it utterly baffles my mind. The decent little part-time office job continues to just not […]
In which I’m another year older. Yesterday was my birthday. My beloved bought me a laptop, I bought myself a skin for my Kindle Fire tablet so now it looks all burlwood and excellent, and my dad, who is in town for a week, bought dinner! I also chatted with a friend who just took […]
In which I don’t quite believe what I’ve done. We bought the plane ticket six weeks ago, because without a set date I knew I’d never get anything done. But I met my goal admirably, even down to guessing correctly how many boxes it would take. (Twenty. Slightly under four hundred pounds.) The goal was […]
