Thirteen Things I’ve Really Enjoyed Recently
• This video.
• The greatest perfume in the world.
• Ego by The Sounds.
• Postcrossing.
• Being called up by a headhunter trying to give me a job I’d be awesome at.
• […]

So, technically the “weekend,” despite its extended length has pretty much wound down for the duration. Clearly, I survived, though there was never any doubt of that. I had an excellent weekend, overall, though there wasn’t a single thing that went even remotely according to initial plan.
Friday night I planned to kick off the […]

I just opened my inbox and took a gander at my comes-with-everything-from-iVillage horoscope:
Cancer Week of May 21-27, 2007
Your outlook’s expanding amazingly at the beginning of the week. Reexamine a relationship, an emotion and a usual way of thinking — major enlargement and improvement is possible now. Then, from sometime Wednesday through Friday, your accomplishments may […]

I have to wonder what I’m doing wrong when the only way to perfectly preserve perfection in all of its own perfect-ness is to gnaw it down until there is nothing but bald spots, open sores, and exposed bone.
My blue curtains are purpler than I realized at first, and I can’t quite decide if I […]

In Which I Grumble and Say Mean Things
My grandmother is dying. At the risk of sounding like a petulant child, which I’ll get into later, I am not exactly sure how to process that. I feel a little bit betrayed. She’s supposed to be too mean to die, so the possibility of her mortality is […]