Someone please be free this Saturday or Sunday! Please ( Read more... )

Walking past a traffic light this afternoon, I suddenly remembered that when I was a kid, I had no concept of how such things worked. And it got me thinking about some of the utterly silly things I believed as a kid. I thought I'd list a few, and then see what you all could add to the list ( Read more... )

Well, damn. Apparently, I'm on my own all day tomorrow. Nothing like finding that out at the last minute, eh?

Anyone want to hang out for the day/a few hours/whatever?

So, for those of you who wished you could attend the reading of Augusten Burroughs' brother's new book, Look Me In The Eye, the video of the event is available on on the Barnes and Noble website. It's about 45 minutes long and totally worth watching. The conversation that took places before John Robison read from his book was funny although I'm ( Read more... )

So, the trailer for Tim Burton's Sweeney Todd has been released! Here's a linkIt opens on December 21st, which is a Friday. And the day before my birthday! And I MUST GO ( Read more... )

At work today one of the instructors came around with a card for everyone to sign, to congratulate another of the girls, Maria, on her engagement. As I was signing my name she added, "by the way, she doesn't know yet." Not about the card--about the engagementSo, Maria's now-fiance arranged it with my bosses and some of the people at work that he ( Read more... )

John Robison and Augusten Burroughs were frickin' awesome. Forty-ish pages in, Robison's Asperger's memoir has been amazing from page one. Plus, I have autographs! And I got to ask a question during the very brief Q&A... and it will almost certainly appear in the video of the event that will be available to watch at bn.com in a week or so ( Read more... )

My cousin was supposed to go with me to the Augusten Burroughs reading on Tuesday evening but she just told me she can't go. So I'm sending out another appeal:

Someone go with me? It's FREE and Augusten Burroughs is awesomely funny. And you love me. Yeah, that's right.

Excerpt from New York Magazine:

"Augusten Burroughs and John Elder Robison

Best-selling memoirist Burroughs reads from his collection of essays, Possible Side Effects; his brother, Robison, presents Look Me In The Eye, his chronicle of a life spent battling Asperger Syndrome ( Read more... )

Well, the single career I considered seriously that is not on this list is journalist, which I ruled out several years ago because I wanted to work with people in a more direct way. I'd say this list is pretty darn good, in both the specifics and the general nature of the careers suggested (even though I would never want to be an elementary school ( Read more... )