I have finished my taxes.  With some trepidation, they are now efiled.   I spent all weekend updating my Quicken, so I would have accurate information as to "educational expenses" for my child and "charity" donations.  Though in the end all the pertinent information was already entered ( Read more... )

I saw the movie MILK last night -- the only one of the Oscar movies I really wanted to see.  The others seemed so dreary .   I have no desire to see Slumdog Millionaire, being afflicted with a sadistic Indian in my life already -- and also no need to see bad behavior to children.   Doubt ... The Reader .... The Wrestler .... sigh ( Read more... )

It is deep winter here in the City on the Lake.  Its unbelievably cold.  There is nearly a foot of snow on the ground.  The wind chill is incredible.  The stress of commuting to work is tremendous.  Both ways today, driving on the highways around the city -- and even the local roads -- felt extremely hazardous.  Will the car start slipping at any ( Read more... )

I do not understand fatwas.  Not being Muslim, this should not be surprising.  I was recently sent a news story about some clerics in Malaysia who have issued a fatwa against yoga.  This is surprising to me: what can there be about yoga that upsets people so ( Read more... )

A week ago I went to the Opera.  I go about once a year, when my mother-in-law gives me a ticket.  This year I got her ticket because she had to go to a funeral -- so I went with her friends, which is not as much fun as going with her (occasionally one of her friends can't go, and I get his/her ticket ....).

Despite having a best friend from ( Read more... )

Felt worse today.  My ex and his girlfriend have the plague as well, so I was asked to pick the kid up from his dad and take him to school -- this is how my day started.  Did, don't mind that part - its just getting to work really late is not the best way to start the day.  I felt lousy, worse as the day went on ... and there I was at work, trying ( Read more... )

My headcold is now officially a week old.  It can leave any time now.  Its mutated into a nasty cough and more stuffiness.  I am tired all the time -- of course, I should try sleeping more ( Read more... )

Last week I had a three-day work week.  Lovely in many ways, except I never really had an intuitive sense of what day of the week it was -- after working through a weekend, traveling the next weekend, taking Monday and Tuesday off -- I just had no clue where we were in the week.  Now I'm back to normal, I guess, after having a full real weekend ( ( Read more... )

Well, I would write more, except I have a nasty headcold, and can't breathe.  And when you can't breathe, you can't think.  And if you can't think, you can't write.  Well, you shouldn't write if you're thinking impaired.  Of course, I can think of several politicians for whom this does not seem to be a problem ( Read more... )

Ok, I'm back to posting.  Life is marginally less stressful.  Oh, I still need a new job, a new boyfriend, a new life ... but hey, its time to start writing again.  The stressful symposium is done, the cousin's wedding is done (yea for him!), and tomorrow is the kid's birthday ...  But we're done with overtime at work, we're done with travel for a ( Read more... )