Just popping in on a whim. It's late and I'm awake at Chateau Marmont, this is highly unoriginal. I thought about updating Partygirl, but it didn't seem the time ( Read more... )

My father is dying. I try to maintain hope that he'll beat this cancer, that treatment will work. But we both know that he's dying. We've entered that last stage of his life ( Read more... )

Work is good. I'm very happy at my new job, it's a great fit for me culturally and creatively. I have an awesome officemate and I even like the clients. Since my work life is running smoothly, it makes sense for my personal life to downward spiral. Life can never provide good hands of both, simultaneously. I've known that for a long time ( Read more... )

My parents surprised me on Friday by calling from center city-ish and asking me to join them for lunch. I gave them a tour of my new workplace and my Dad said "well, this is definitely the most avant-garde office space I've ever seen. You've certainly gone 360 from X (the last place I worked)." My mom noted how the agency is filled with guys, ( Read more... )

I'm up late for no reason and every reason. Sometimes the Internet can suck me in, which is a good thing, because my job requires me to dig deep in these here tubes and sometimes, I'd rather just loiter in the ease and comfort of my favorite social network or two rather than explore the daily new frontier. It's so vast online, and so rapidly ( Read more... )

This weekend I did something I wasn't looking forward to and attended the wedding of someone who I used to be very close too for a long time. A guy friend from college, who played the role of my best guy friend for many many years through my 20's and into my 30's. By 30, he was a bit smothering in his friendship and I unconsciously worked at ( Read more... )

I have a wedding in DC this weekend and I have to tell you, I just don't feel like going. After 10 years of a vigorous wedding circuit, I'm over the whole mentality of weddings as one big party. On top of that thought, this wedding is that of a college friend that I was tight with for years but as these things happen, I have drifted away from over ( Read more... )

Well, it's not like I didn't anticipate this. If I weren't so lazy, I'd link previous entries where I spoke about this. Strangely, anticipation of bad news to come does not prepare you. Or maybe it did. Maybe I would react differently if I hadn't anticipated it. We'll never know ( Read more... )

I have *always* loved riding the merry-go-round. Sure, I took a spin on all the thrill rides, but less out of desire for the rush and more to satiate the group. Living my life has been an ongoing adrenaline rush, I didn't need amusements for the thrill. Probably *because* I've spent my life toeing the line and chasing/running from trouble, I've ( Read more... )

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