Before the rosary, I was talking to my uncle and to the deceased’s son-in-law about my job. Son-in-law seemed rather unimpressed with my intention to be happy and poor forever in my current job. My uncle was more understanding, nonetheless he didn’t miss an opportunity to make fun. “You graduated from UCLA to drive a boat? There must be some way ( Read more... )

Today was Part I of two days of funerary events. The father of my mother’s brother’s wife died. He was an old man, over eighty, and cancer got him. I remember him from when I was a child and he was a part of Christmas and other holiday events. He was always classy; long after the women had drunk their drinks, taken off their pumps, and had begun ( Read more... )

 
So I’m dialing around on the TV, and I stumble upon a talk show where some fellah named Aaron Eckhart is talking about some batman movie or something. Now I know I don’t really pay attention to movies and celebrities and such. But my goodness! He’s so pretty! How have I missed him?

I was telling James about the Innoventions Dream Home at Disneyland. He wasn't really impressed by the technology I had described. He thought that a computerized refrigerator that keeps an eye on your food stores was already outdated and not really useful to anybody. He said, "That refrigerator's been ordering milk for fifteen years... and nobody's ( Read more... )

I have to move. It’s not going to be sudden. But sixty miles a day is too much. My current rent is too much. Parking tickets are killing me. I will need a roommate. I no longer deny this. Although I am now free of denial, I now sit squarely in a place of anxiety about objects.

Without the pressure of a forced evacuation, I have time to be sensible ( Read more... )

 I got a jury summons in the mail yesterday. I got out my calculator to see if I could get out of it by qualifying for “extreme financial hardship.” Noooooo problem! I win!

So today, one week to the day, I went back to Forest Lawn, this time the right one, in Glendale. One of the primary attractions here, one that I remembered vaguely, and one that, at least from the exterior, is pretty ubiquitous on the Glendale skyline, is a giant beige box with a big, light-up cross on it, all the way at the top of a hill. Inside ( Read more... )

On a day off last week I went to visit Forest Lawn Cemetery in the Burbank area. I’ve heard it said that before Disneyland was built, Forest Lawn Cemetery was the most visited tourist attraction in Los Angeles. Ironically, Walt Disney himself is buried in Forest Lawn. And I remember going there when I was a child with Babci and Dzadzi who were ( Read more... )

I'm gonna marry every boy!

So I came home tonight, tired, and I just wanted to check my e-mail before bed. But my computer started freaking out and didn't recognize my password! I don't know how I did it, but I eventually got in. Now I'm pleased as anything that my computer is working, but now I am afraid to turn it off before backing up everything. So it feels like a longer ( Read more... )