Tonight, I spent an hour making fried rice. I washed and cut up a bunch of vegetables, fried them up, added my rice, cooked that for a while, and fried up some soy-sauce tofu at the same time. Then I added a seasoning package to the rice, because I'm lazy. As I kept an eye on the frying tofu, and let the rice keep warm on the burner, I checked ( Read more... )

Once a year (maybe twice in an especially bad year), I have a complete nervous breakdown. Crying, yelling, curling up in a little ball, and everything. It usually lasts for a few hours, and is the only logical outcome of the way I pretend that stress isn't stressful. It also seems a small price to pay for being able to let the little stresses go ( Read more... )

Meeting someone for dinner in 20 minutes. I have no time, but a powerful urge to write something here ( Read more... )

1. Orange marmalade
2. Individual packets of cheese and crackers
3. Spicy curry flavour potato chips
4. Cherry tomatoes
5. A second bag of frozen french fries

And now, by popular demand (Thanks, ryanmc. I've always wanted to say that), the story of my beard ( Read more... )

There's too much drama in my life right now. There was a time that I would have loved this, and, in fact, I probably would have worked pretty hard to create even more delicious, soul-quenching drama, but that time has passed ( Read more... )

There are four things I would like to state as a matter of public (and drunken) record:

1) I.O.bevie. one bottle of white wine, Jackson-Triggs (although I will probably upgrade that, to save myself the embarrassment of buying Jackson-Triggs wine ( Read more... )

Yesterday was one of those days at work that's not the worst day you've ever had but it's pretty bad and by the time you realize how badly it's going it's too late because you're helping this one guy who won't shut up like ever and he asks the same questions over and over and you've got a million other things to get done and your boss calls you to ( Read more... )

Something I learned today: Despite the fact that I keep telling people I'm "fine," and no matter how often I think of the near-fatal car accident as "just an inconvenience," I am not fine, and it was much more than that. In fact, it probably accounts for why I haven't been able to concentrate on anything, and why I've been flying off the handle ( Read more... )

Remember back in early June, when I mentioned that I wrote a letter to an advice column? Well, this morning, three months later, I got an e-mail from the proprietor of my favourite website, telling me that my letter appears in today's column ( Read more... )