Scharffen Berger Chocolates just offered me an all expenses, two-day trip to San Francisco in June, including a stay in a luxury resort spa--complete with winemaker's dinner and chocolate-based spa services--plus cooking classes during the day, and, of course, a tour of their factory and all the chocolate I can eat.

Man, having ethics sucks.

Does anyone use one of those free blogstat tracker things? Any recommendations on which to use? I'd rather do one of the "invisible" ones, I think.

If my Proust thing ever got hit by an Ivy League, I'd totally crack open a can of something cold in celebration.

Dear Fox News,

Stop it. Stop it stop it stop it. Please. My profession has enough difficulty getting respect as it is.

At the very least, please change your name to the Weekly World Fox News and include poorly photoshopped pictures of Bigfoot in your regular coverage. That way people will know what they're in for.

Sincerely,

Ann Editor

My cat, Sabbath, hasn't come down to the first floor for five years, not since I got the dog. The past six months, she's gotten to the point where she'll lie at the bottom of the stairs and glare at me and the dog, Henry, while we lie on the couch watching TV, but she's always needed a clear escape path in case the dog decides to eat her. (Which he ( Read more... )

Well, I got a temporary card and turned off the other one, so I guess I'm okay on that front. Am exhausted--it's midnight here in Portland, but 3 am my time. I got stuck for an hour in Chicago and wound up on a plane with every child between age 2 and 7--aka "The Shouting Years"--that was riding Southwest that day. Seriously. Kids to the front of ( Read more... )

I'm leaving town for more than a week in about four hours. I have a ton of stuff to do at work before that happens. I also have a bunch of last-minute stuff at the house--taking the dog to my friends' house, picking up extra kitty litter, taking out the trash. So of course--of course--this would be the morning I leave my bank card in the cash ( Read more... )

Yesterday was the first day that felt pretty much normal since I got taken down with that Death Flu from Hell last week. I walked to the Harbor at lunch (gmaps says it is at least a mile) and ate a gigantic Chipotle burrito, a weakness of mine, but the thing kept me full all day so I didn't bother with dinner. When I got home, I gave Mr. H his full ( Read more... )

I'm planning on going to Open Skate tonight. I haven't been for two and a half weeks, and last time I went, it was my first time with my new skates and it was as if I had to re-learn skating from scratch. So it's understandable that I would be nervous. I didn't realize how nervous, though, until I spent all of last night having skating anxiety ( Read more... )

Last night, I found myself silently wondering if I could possibly do anything geekier than attending a group reading of the first Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season 8 comic book, on the night of its release.

Sure, I realized after a moment. You could get geekier: you could blog about it.

Game, set, and match, y'all.

*The reference comes from here. And I ( Read more... )

I just had a writer use "collaborate" when they meant "corroborate." I have to admit, it's adding a little extra sunshine to my day, because it's making me laugh. But then there's the other part of me that kind of wants to put my head in my hands and sigh. Thank god I don't teach.