I don't need a TV or season tickets. I can hear the crowd in Memorial Stadium cheering from my apartment.

My new place is great. I traded all my money in for furniture, so now I have things to sit on. On Sunday I put together two small tables, a bookshelf, and a dresser, all by my lonesome. Then on Monday I cleaned the floors. They were filthy! Like, wash-your-feet-after-15-minutes filthy. Anyway, I swept and then mopped three times, so now they're ( Read more... )

So on Friday Grace and I did something pretty silly. We bought a couple of dwarf hamsters. They're very small and very cute and very stupid. Their names are Bruce and Felix. Bruce (mine) is fat and friendly and dumb. Felix is fast and smart(er) and mean. He has attitude, and he's given Grace a couple of bites. They bicker sometimes but I think that ( Read more... )

I need a new place to live. If you know a place I could live, please tell me. Any help, or even good wishes, would be very much appreciated.

After 11 hours total travel time, I arrived at my hotel in Miami Beach yesterday at 6 a.m. local time. It rained all day long yesterday. So much for beach weather (not that I'm exactly a beach person anyway). It's now overcast and very humid, to the point that my glasses fog up when I step out of the air-conditioned lobby. Going outside feels like ( Read more... )

I'm pretty tired. This doesn't bode well.

Summer is essentially over ( Read more... )

A year has passed since I got that late-night phone call from Tessa to tell me that our friend Sumer had died ( Read more... )

I got a spam e-mail for DaisyDebt.com. Its tagline? "Debt Solutions Designed for Women ( Read more... )

When I told people I was moving to Monterey for the summer, they all told me how beautiful it is, and how it can get nippy at night. Both true. But what they did NOT tell me is that Monterey would be the one place in the entire nation, apparently, that has normal weather. All day long, I read about record-breaking triple-digit heat waves that ( Read more... )