Many of you may have heard me complain endlessly about snowboarders: what they do to the snow, how they sit right in the middle of the trail, and how they take up the whole damn ski lift. They say "know thine enemy," and to that end I decided, on the 20th anniversary of learning to ski, I would try snowboarding.* Naturally, I waited till the end ( Read more... )

Dreams of inadequacy and betrayal. Moreover, I dreamt I had a really cool camera, someone borrowed it and had way more fun with it than I could've.

On one of my previous visits home, I had a dream that Hugh Laurie was in love with me. I recounted the dream to my folks, quipping: "Why couldn't it have been Hugh Jackman?"

After a brief discussion of movies and Hugh Jackman with my sister last night, guess who I dreamt I was dating?

Even my fish look bored.

Dogs like licorice, but they're not unanimous with themselves.

I think I've just about decided to go insane, but I need a catch-phrase... all good crazy folks have them; like the guy in Cuckoo's Nest, who shouts "Fuck em all," or perhaps Bartleby the Scrivener's "I prefer not to." I'm completely at a loss, however! Any suggestions?

And I thought my resume was bad...

I've spent the whole day with it stuck in my head, as one does when one has a remarkably vivid dream. All the energy, emotions and excitement are there; I remember the pure anticipation of life, the complete happiness of unconditional friendship, and the joy of discovering new things that comes from being young and in college. I found a cassette ( Read more... )

"It's so refreshing to meet a business person who hasn't lost her idealism," a massage therapist told me today.

Thanks, I think. That probably explains a lot.

A random google can find you almost anything.