I’m bleary eyed.
Yesterday, all I could hear all day was the sound of trees being trimmed.
This morning, I woke up about 7:30 to the sound of chainsaws.
A lovely old tree is being taken down just outside my backyard.
I knew this was going to happen, and I’m sad to see it go, but I don’t really [...]
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I’m a word person. I love words. I sometimes hate them. I’m surrounded by them. I devour them with my eyes.
And I cringe sometimes when they’re bent, distorted, overused.
Today, it was rock star.
I’m sorry. You can’t be a rock star if you are not, in fact, a rock star.
You can’t use this word to describe [...]
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Letter to all the flakes on craigslist,
If you say you are going to pick up something at a certain time, be on time! Don’t waste my time. I spent all day waiting for you to call, and then spent the rest of my day before work waiting for you to pick up the item you’ve [...]
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I initially intended this post to be about how angry I got with my insurance agent’s secretary. About how stupid she is. About how I had to spell my name for her five times. How I got no satisfaction. How I lost the argument with Comcast, yet again, about me being required to lease a [...]
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I finished my second semester of school, after a long absence. I survived and survived well.
Here’s what I learned during the last few months, something that I reaffirmed from my previous assessment of students: Many students are wasting their time. And by wasting their time, they’re also wasting mine.
I don’t know whether they don’t care [...]
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I lost my temper.
It had been a long work week. Not particularly bad, but maybe I’d just forgotten everything. Last night, the fire alarm went off twice. We probably spent an 1.25 hours total waiting to be let back into the clearly not burning building.
So we go out to a chain place to indulge in [...]
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On the cruise, everything was great, except for the things that weren’t.
Overall, I really enjoyed myself, and would go again. Three nights seemed not quite enough time; four nights would have been perfect.
The elevators. You could never get on an elevator without another 15 people. I used to cheer when we got an empty elevator [...]
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