Today was the first day in my life that I went to see two movies ( Read more... )

Today I was driving to my three hour dentist appointment with my mother. She had decided to come with me as she is the main financial backing of my extremely expensive dental surgeries ( Read more... )

Tonight I had tickets to go see My Morning Jacket at the Chicago Theater ( Read more... )

Can you guys please give me your take on Blackwater, and the organizations' involvement in Iraq? What are they allowed to do, and what restrictions do they have if any? What are they paid for and who is paying them?

Yesterday I was riding my bike to work at 7:15am. It had been lightly raining until around 6:45am, so the roads were a bit slick ( Read more... )

Having not given myself enough time to form my thoughts completely on this, I may be a bit jumbled- so bear with me ( Read more... )

I made a trial run of the vegetarian Thanksgiving entree that I am bringing to dinner at my step sisters. I had to cut and peel two huge butter-winter squash. I had no idea how hard that would be ( Read more... )

I've been biking to work now for about a month- it's about 7 miles each way. I never though I would love it so much or that biking would become such a way of life. I've met lots of people through doing the ride- especially the guys that run the bike shop next door to where I work, who think I am really funny and slightly uneducated when it comes ( Read more... )

Strange days have approached and landed in front of me ( Read more... )

Summertime means things are picking up, yeah? Itsn't it funny how what you did in a winter day seemed like so much, and now you feel bored or lazy if you aren't cramming many things into a day. I saw Arcade Fire a few weeks back, it really got me going- I mean, the music was intoxicating enough that I didn't even want to get up and grab a beer. ( Read more... )