Today, I wrote an email to three physicians at Harvard explaining how and when to use a hyphen in words with prefixes. My job sure is surreal sometimes.

http://www.merriam-webstercollegiate.com/info/new_words.htm

It is amazing how fast the English language evolves.

Best...birthday...ever!

My toe got into a fight with the corner of our kitty condo, and the kitty condo clearly won.

( Click here for a gross photo (don't say I didn't warn you) )

My string of vehicular bad luck (faulty vehicle speed sensor, broken windshield wiper motor) hit its peak this morning (I hope!) when I was rear-ended at a red light on 15th Ave NW after dropping Erick off at work. I am one hundred percent fine, as was the (very nice and apologetic) man who hit me, but my car needs some help. So I'm dropping it ( Read more... )

The sun is shining, I got a raise, the daffodils are blooming like crazy, my too-tight jeans sort of fit, I'm wearing pink sneakers, and I'm about to go have lunch with my love. Who could ask for anything more?

I made my sister a hat and scarf and slippersocks for her 23rd birthday. Isn't she the cutest?


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When you spill red wine all over the refrigerator and the kitchen floor at 7:30 in the morning, while you're just trying to get milk for your coffee, he'll clean it up for you.

That guy I saw riding a Segway over the Fremont Bridge has a Web site.

So I completed -- and unravelled -- my very first sweater last night. It looked okay when I finished it, except for a couple of fixable holes and its suspiciously small size. And then I put it on. Holy cow was it too small. Possibly the fact that I used four and a quarter skeins of yarn instead of the nine called for by the pattern had some ( Read more... )