I raise my eyebrows and grip the dashboard
You take the bends like you built the roadToday while I was engaged in endless boring filing I decided it would be basically the coolest thing ever to make a mix cd of songs that reference Oscar Wilde. So far as I understand it mix cds are mostly meant to be used as a tool in the dating game, and I’m not ( Read more... )

Ok so ( Read more... )

Look, I have now belatedly completed the ( Lyric Meme! )

I know that we agreed
I'd try and pay no heed
But history is all that I believe inOn Friday I became the proud owner of my very own second-hand trenchcoat ( Read more... )

This will probably come as a complete surprise, but sometimes work is a little dull ( Read more... )

On the phone at work:

Tara: Hi, back
Natalie: You know, you should really see “I got 99 problems but a bitch ain’t one”.
(silence)
Tara: I hate putting you on hold because you have a new bad idea every time I come back.

Something I meant to document at the time:

I had been working, hunched over a stack of crumpled pages with a well-gnawed highlighter protruding sideways from my nervous mouth.( ...An excessively lengthy story continues here )

The only thing I knew how to do was to keep on keeping on, like a bird that flew…Probably one of the only remotely positive things about Sunday was that it afforded me the opportunity to finally finish The Corrections, Jonathan Franzen’s critically acclaimed 600 pages of postmodern angst. I actually liked it a lot- it was easy to read while still ( Read more... )

Dear Silver Spring ( Read more... )

My contribution to the latest meme:

( Guess the title and artist, of course )