Awwwww! My grandma is finally, finally learning how to use a computer!! She’s had an old nasty one for years that she used just for word docs, but the dial up internet connection was so bad she never used it for e-mails. But she recently switched to Verizon and got a brand new computer. At first I thought she would only be using it to play ( Read more... )

Does anyone else find it odd that we observe Columbus Day but not Veteran's day?? 

So this weekend I got very little sleep, stood for several hours in the rain waiting to hear Obama, walked all over DC in shoes with no support, and hauled heavy tables and chairs around for Fiesta DC setup. The end result is that I have a slight cold and my muscles are super sore.  In other words, I feel like shit because my body is like, “Bitch!  ( Read more... )

My weekend’s been packed! Friday I drove up to Baltimore with Jesse and Marian to hear them play at this really cool art gallery / bar called Wind Up Space. They sounded so great and it felt odd to see them performing but actually know them. I guess I mean that sometimes performers take on this supernatural persona to me, and so to know them ( Read more... )

I’m sending a cake to my Muslim friend for the end of Ramadan but I want to make sure it’s halal, or has no pig products. Do any of you vegetarians or people with vegan friends happen to know if Crisco, made with mono-and diglycerides = glycerin= pig? 

I am very happy because ( Read more... )

The sedentary lifestyle inherent to holding an office job is just no good for you. I mean, besides staring at your computer screen until you go cross eyed and typing until your wrists scream at you in indignation, there is always food lying around tempting you to eat it. Because it’s always someone’s birthday, or there’re leftovers from a ( Read more... )

So the coolest thing ever just happened. Last night Yappa, the first girl from Copprome to go to college and sort of the unofficial mascott of SHH because she's so sweet, funny, and hard working, CAME TO MY SCHOOL!!!!!!! We were all waiting for her at the CCC building and when the car pulled up with her, Shin and Cosmo (the brother and sister who ( Read more... )

I woke up this morning to the wail of a guitar- my older sister Angela’s ring tone. It was 7am, so 4am Vegas time. She’d worked a night shift and then gone out with some coworkers so she was just getting in. She said she wanted to end a good day by talking to me- which was a great way for me to start the day I told her through a yawn. We talked ( Read more... )

I tried to channel my disappointment into something constructive- singing quietly as I crouched on the bathroom floor and pasted scraps of green and blue magazine clippings around the rim of an old mirror and smeared them with expensive craft glue from Michael’s. It’s probably just Elmer’s with a hard to pronounce French name that makes it sound ( Read more... )