I'm pretty sure I've figured out what Oprah's big family secret is that she's going to reveal on Monday: BFF Gail is her daughter. Has to be. Either that or a biscuit recipe.

The New York Times ran a fascinating interactive feature last week on the 2010 US Census results. (Thanks microbie for the link.) I’ve been examining my neighborhood, and it would appear from the data from my census tract that I live in one of those tony DC suburbs that people from the rest of the nation are so wary of ( Read more... )

I really need to be cleaning my house and doing various other chores, like paying bills and ironing, but instead I'm drinking coffee and looking down the tubes of the interwebs. I think I can say I'm over the nasty, nasty cold my nephew gave me over the holidays. Sorry to everyone I normally send holiday cards to; I just didn't do it this year. ( Read more... )

I checked the weather for tomorrow and, at 21F degrees, it's not worth it to me to go to the office holiday party. It's barely worth it to go to work at that temperature, but I have stuff to do. It's insane and stupid to go in half an hour early for some greasy coffeecake and mushy fruit. That's right--the holiday party is from 8:45am to 10am. ( Read more... )

I'm doing an embroidery project, and it includes a mermaid. At first I thought, why not give her brown skin and dark hair, like me? After all, don't mermaids hang out on rocks and sunbathe all day? No reason for the fair skin and blond hair like the Chicken of the Sea mermaid, except for blonde fetishisation, right? But then I got to thinking, ( Read more... )

I did this:

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I had a fantastic time over the weekend in Asbury Park, NJ. It's a quiet seaside town on its way back from the brink of implosion. We went for TA's birthday and we met up with friends who came down from NYC. It was kind of a double date.

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Caffeinated eye cream is my new BFF.

I am really super-annoyed, far more than a reasonable person should be, that my little red mini-Maglite has bit the dust. It's still all shiny and red and perfect; it just doesn't work anymore. It is only four years old. I have crappy plastic Eveready flashlights older than that. Also our two big Maglites at work have stopped working, and I am ( Read more... )