I have a work hangover. We all have days at work that make us re-evaluate our chosen career paths. Yesterday was the kind of day that made me re-evaluate my entire existence. For the first time since working at Sidelines, I came home exhausted from sitting at a desk all night. How do you get physically exhausted at a desk job? I’ll tell you: Sit on the edge of your seat for seven hours straight,…
Forgive my nerdiness for saying so, but I’ve had a productive day. Phil and I took the ferrets to the park to frolic, and explained to a couple of curious pot-smoking bums — one of whom said he was allergic to ferrets — all about little Felix and Gonz and their silly habits. Then Grandmaw came up to visit for a bit. She’s in town taking a class to update her AARP driver instructor status.…
Science-fiction writer Octavia Butler has died. Butler, 58, died after falling and striking her head Friday on a walkway outside her home in Lake Forest Park. The reclusive writer, who moved to Seattle in 1999 from her native Southern California, was a giant in stature (she was 6 feet tall by age 15) and in accomplishment. What a horrible and unfitting end to her life. I’ve only read Dawn, but I’ve wanted to read Kindred…
Phil got a couple of free movie passes from work and decided last night that he’d like to redeem them by seeing Final Destination 3 instead of Capote, which I was rooting for. But as we settled into the theater and the story got going, I remembered that I had actually liked the first FD enough to go see it twice (I think it was the first one; I remember seeing it with Tamara in…
One of the small pleasures of my job is laying out a story* and then realizing it’s been written by one of my fabulous friends. *Link goes to Wichita paper instead of CA because we won’t have it up on our website until tonight.
We can’t go on like this. I never see you. I think about you a lot, and I still miss you. But I can’t wait for you any longer. I’m here with Memphis. I will be for I don’t know how long. But while I am here I need to stop loving you, because it’s not fair to me, or Memphis, or you. I know you don’t love me. I’m not sure you ever did.…
Barney, we hardly knew ye. Don Knotts has died. The headline coming across the wire says “Actor Don Knotts dies at 81; made being a nerd OK,” which is fitting enough, I guess, but still seems odd for an obit. My headline for this entry, however, is much worse, but I apologize for nothing. May he forever enjoy the leisure suits and precincts in the sky.
They should really fix my buzzer. Today makes twice that Phil has come by and had to wait out in the parking lot for 40 minutes while I did not hear him yelling at me or calling my cell phone. I am a complete moron. Anyway. Appetizer Choose one: moving to another state, having triplets, or never being able to eat chocolate again. Moving to another state! Yeesh. Soup Name a news story that truly…
Because sometimes already-existing laws just aren’t good enough when it comes to keeping The Gays down. NASHVILLE — A Nashville judge ruled today that the proposal to amend the Tennessee Constitution to ban same-sex marriage can appear on the statewide Nov. 7 ballot. The American Civil Liberties Union filed suit last year to block the constitutional referendum on technical grounds: the state legislature did not publish the proposed amendment six months prior to the 2004…
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