I was there, holed up in my office with the blinds closed. We stood out on the deck for a while in the shade and just started sweating from standing around. The bus home tonight will be interesting, I'm thinking I'll camp out here as long as I can while the a/c stays on. Nothing to do at home but sweat, anyway. It'd be a good night to go swim at ( Read more... )

So my best man was driving me home from my bachelor party, and something was missing. Something had been left undone, and I couldn't quite think of what. I mustered the courage to ask him if he had any final thoughts or advice, and he said no, we've chewed through a lot of stuff this weekend. Are you hinting at something? I said no, I just... well ( Read more... )

Independence day has always been a day where I worry that I'm missing the main event. I flit about at parties hoping to find the location, person, or scene that is the Awesomest Thing Possible this year. The coolest house, the sweetest pool, the least-dressed girls. It's an excuse to grill food and overdrink in the sun ( Read more... )

Just follow me on Google Reader.

It's been 24 hours since I've seen new content on my friends page. Facebook seems to have consumed mine and everybody else's desire to create long-form blog entries, and status has replaced narrative. Soon enough everyone will leave Facebook for twitter, because why spend all that time on quizzes when you could just update your status with what ( Read more... )

2 weeks ago, I was laid off and engaged in the same weekend. Incredibly, life hasn't slowed down a bit since. The following week I spent half in Seattle negotiating for jobs, half in Portland spending some time with my new fiancee. I got to see her teach and meet her students, who wished us many misspelled congragulations ( Read more... )

You may find yourself unhappy that your mortgage-loving neighbors with the Escalade in their driveway and the neck-deep credit card debt are likely to receive government assistance to prevent them from being evicted due to foreclosure. You may find yourself calling this unfair. Rest assured, these feelings are rooted in a right sense of injustice, ( Read more... )

One week ago at this time, I was at my desk downtown drinking bourbon from a plastic cup. I had a bottle of it in the office saved for a special occasion, but the occasion turned out to be my unemployment. That morning's meeting was very glum, as about 1/4 of the participants would not see another one. The merger had failed, and with it our jobs. ( Read more... )

Watch news about the stimulus/bailout plans going around, and see how many sentences are constructed with the assumption that for the economy to recover, consumer spending would have to go back up, dramatically if possible. I suspect you'll see plenty ( Read more... )

If you have a pair of shoes which resemble either of these:

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