Richard and I, shortly before we flew off to Chicago, agreed to try to be good about food while we were on our business trip. Uh. Yeah. That hasn’t lasted, but we’re in good company. Half the group is on some kind of diet program, and we’re all failing miserably. Of course we’re having a [...]
I remember back in school being so scared whenever I had to get up in front of class. My face would feel hot, my hands would be shaking, and no matter how much I tried, I would end up talking a mile a minute because I was so nervous. My Girl Scout troop leader in [...]
Originally, the plan for this weekend was for me to be at JournalCon. Alas, I got this new job, which required us to fly off to Chicago, and it just didn’t make sense to spend the time to fly back when I’d end up missing most of it. So I called up a friend, transferred [...]
When we found the museum yesterday, we discovered that it was located conveniently right next to the shores of Lake Michigan, just down the road from an incredibly cool fountain, a short distance away from downtown, and just down the road from an aquarium and a planetarium. Thus the plan for day two of our [...]
Richard is off somewhere in the wilds of Chicago nightlife, enjoying blues at some random club somewhere, with a handful of the other Benthic Creatures trainers. I, however, can only sit through one or two blues tunes before I develop a twitch and start looking for sharp objects, so I elected to sit this one [...]
Despite the cigarette smoke and the long hours of class, and despite getting sick, I actually did have fun in Chicago. By the time Friday rolled around I was desperate to get home, home to our cats, home to my own bed. The training, however, was definitely worth it. If I thought I had a [...]
Being gone for two weeks, with someone else picking up the bill, meant that when we came home we had to make up the difference by going shopping. Okay, so that wasn’t really the reason; it was more that we happened to be at the hardware store to get stuff to kill ants (because yes [...]
During my first few years of college, since we couldn’t have cats in the dorms, my roommate and I decided to get hamsters. Because hamsters have this annoying tendency to die if you look at them cross-eyed, we eventually gave up on trying to keep hamsters alive and got a mouse instead. For lack of [...]
Because it’s been a while, not only since we last saw a movie, but a horror movie at that, Friday afternoon Richard and I went to see The Ring.
It’s actually rather good. Like most horror films, there were a few glaring inconsistencies in the plot, but even despite those the movie managed to impart [...]
While there may be a lot about being an adult that sucks (like having to pay bills and how they actually expect you to *work*, and don’t get me started on trying to decipher IRS tax codes and trying to remember the difference between term and the other kind of life insurance), there are some [...]
