For months I have needed to get away, but I couldn't decide where to go or what to do. Too many options, too much work impeding my choosing. Finally I have made a decision. I'm feeling that funny combination of excitement and shyness and "I can't believe I'm doing this" and "I hope I'm up to all this ( Read more... )

Giving career advice to 20-somethings makes me feel old.

Tonight, I read a thread where someone posted something innocent about being sick, and it became an excuse for someone else to blast her about family drama. When a third person tried to defend the poster in a very kind way, the nasty poster became incredibly vicious ( Read more... )

Ok, in the last 10 days I've ( Read more... )

Look, I understand walking into the women's locker room accidently. It's not marked, and it's the secondary guys locker room every other day of the week. You're new. You didn't know I was in there. You didn't know I was mostly naked.

But screaming like a little girl seeing a spider and running away was just wrong.

I spent the afternoon hiking at one of the more rural and rugged metroparks. It's a beautiful one, all hills and creeks and limestone. But 2 hours of hiking the ridge lines wore me out. I used my trusty REI walking sticks, which help keep me stable on the uphills and downhills (i.e. most of the hike). It was wonderful to get outside, and wonderful ( Read more... )

You guys have heard me complain about my jobs the past few years. Well, I got my annual review for the new one today ( Read more... )

At the end of each year's Learn To Row classes, all the new rowers get to race in a regatta. My regatta, the one I am running this weekend. Except that this year, there was an odd number, so they chose one woman and she doesn't get to race. See ya, better luck next year ( Read more... )

because there is someone I'd really like to see get a butt wrap ( Read more... )

I'm wandering around starting to pack. I pulled out the wetsuit and splash jacket. I bypassed the thing that lets a girl pee outside without getting close to poison ivy, the snorkel and the books on caving. I grabbed my backpack and my headlamp. I got my emergency kit with the water filtration and firestarter. I pulled out the hiking boots, unable ( Read more... )