There's a hurricane coming. Again ( Read more... )

I don't know how much I've written about this before, but the reason I'm in Texas is that J.D. (the boyfriend) is going to school. When I met him he was working as a nurse in a hospital in Shreveport, but he was applying to go to school for nurse anesthesia. It's a great job, and it's what he's wanted to do ever since he went into nursing. He ( Read more... )

Yesterday while riding the train home to Fort Worth from my office in Dallas, I saw a man who looked exactly like Mr. Rogers - like childhood television icon Mr. Rogers. Sweaters and singing and puppets Mr. Rogers ( Read more... )

After an excellent July 4 weekend, I didn't really want to come back to work. Understandably, I guess. Last week I got to work from home on Tuesday and Thursday, and then a three-day weekend followed. Climbing out of bed at 4:45 wasn't really what I felt like doing. And yet, somehow, there's something comforting about being back in my office, ( Read more... )

One of my favorite writers, Chuck Klosterman, has an entire essay about Nemeses. In it, he explains that everyone - whether they know it or not - has a nemesis, and that that person is the person who drives you to succeed more than anyone else. It's someone who was at one point close to you, but whom you've always been competetive with ( Read more... )

You'll probably hear a lot from me about two things over the next few months: food and public transportation ( Read more... )

Things have been busy the past couple of weeks, as I have finally landed a job. A real one, with decent pay ( Read more... )

I realize after logging on and rereading I wrote that some definite explanation is in order. Just a year ago I was announcing that I would be suddenly moving from L.A. to LA, and now suddenly you happen upon an entry that claims I'm in Dallas. THis makes very little sense, so here's the long version of the explanation ( Read more... )

Sorry for the absence. I don't know who, exactly, I'm apologizing to. Myself, maybe. Because I know that I have a tendencey to be conspicuously absent, to disappear without regret. And maybe I'm tired of not regretting ( Read more... )

It's been a long, crazy, faster-than-expected ride, but I'm back in Louisiana and finally settling in. First, I owe profound apologies to everyone I didn't get to see before I left (which is, I think, everyone I know). The move-out date got moved up unexpectedly and due to forces beyond my control (namely, my mother). And once my mother decides ( Read more... )