Do you ever have one of those moments where you momentarily forget something you've known for as long as you can remember? I just noticed that on my entry from yesterday, I misspelled the word "weird," switching the "i" and "e." I'd love to pretend it was a typo, but it wasn't; I just forgot how to spell that word, for roughly an entire day. ( Read more... )

"What the hell," I've been asked, "is a clubhouse manager? What do you do?" These are fair questions since relatively few people have actually spent time watching the ballplayers off the field. I'll try to explain (by the way, if you're not interested in the minutiae of my day, you can skip this).

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Excellent. Glad you're back.

I really shouldn't be doing this right now. I was in Chicago on Thursday and Friday, so I had a four-day weekend; and I did no reading. Actually, that's not true. I read for my one class today, and for the same class for tomorrow. But I have four classes tomorrow, and in two of them there's a pretty good chance I ( Read more... )

So I was on my computer last night, reading about education in Africa, and I came across Bill on AIM. Since I hadn't actually spoken to him since late May or early June, I thought I'd say "Hey!" We talked for a while and he mentioned that we have this blog thing. "Shit! He's right," I thought. I should really write something good. Something ( Read more... )

I got seven rejection letters today. Seven! Only one of them was from a firm I really, really wanted...but still, seven! And five were from Chicago.

On the bright side, the Gilmore Girls showed up today.

Honestly. I might as well have a bathrobe, a Cosmo, and a box of chocolates.

First, I've had this quote in my IM profile for a week or so, but it's so great it deserves a (very slightly) wider audience. I get the daily a.m. update email from the Minneapolis Star Tribune, where they provide links to and summaries of their top stories every day, and this was the summary of the second story from the top: Rebekah Dammann was ( Read more... )

I'll write a quick update. Also because I hate, hate, hate my Bankruptcy reading. And I haven't even had the first day of class yet...but then again, maybe class will actually help some of it make sense. Not bloody likely. I just read the introduction, and most of it looked only a little like English. Dude, WTF? But anyway ( Read more... )

It's been a slow summer, LJ-wise. There's really no excuse. From my end, at least: still not sure what's happened to Mike. I think he may have forgotten how to read ( Read more... )

This seems like a good time to provide some updates about my life. There's good news and there's bad news.

The Bad NewsMy grandmother on my mom's side passed away on Tuesday evening. Her funeral is Friday; Kristine and I are leaving for Minnesota tomorrow and will be gone until Sunday ( Read more... )

Wow, another reader! I'm going to have to start actually trying pretty soon. That was Kristen from UPS/Adelphians/etc. (aka Soup), right ( Read more... )