From a recent piece about Spring in the Tribune:

Instead of some goo about birdies and daisies, read Margaret Atwood's observation, "In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt."

Personally, I can't wait to kick winter in the rump...

I've said it before and I'll say it again: this Rick Levine person that writes horoscopes for AOL is freaking me out.

SCORPIO (3/11/05) - You are stuck as you attempt to separate your personal emotional life from the frustration and pain of the global news. There's an important lesson buried here for you Scorpios. It doesn't always have to be an " ( Read more... )

The warm weather and subsequently pleasant weekend have done wonders for my mood. Bun and I even went on a goodwill tour of the NW burbs. Window shopping in downtown AH, mom and dad's in RM, and running around the park in BG. She met so many doggies! And she wanted to fight them all ( Read more... )

You Belong in the UK


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To counter Alan's Anti-Monkey Butt post, here's my own butt-related discovery:

shopping24.de: KinderButt/BabyButt

Check out the Kinder-Shorty! Cuuuuuute. Hope this at least made someone smile today... :-)

Google Movies, huh? Could be useful. ;-)

Ha ha! Funny stuff at the Onion's History section. Anyone who has seen enough archived newspapers will laugh their asses off because it's all SO true...

One of my new favorite things is photoblogs. Oddly enough, this blog has a photo of a fellow DePaul alum that I used to chat with around the labs... The guy, silly, not the dog. I wish these pix had captions, but I guess an air of mystery helps abstract them somewhat. Here's a sight that I remember fondly from my Michigan Ave. days ( Read more... )

Don't skip making a good breakfast, otherwise you'll end up like me... insanely craving peanut butter cups and unable to concentrate on a damn thing...

Greetings on this balmy night in Palatine. The annual February Faux-Spring is upon us. I walked around the Loop today looking at the sky and the buildings for what felt like the first time in months (too much sidewalk staring I guess) and everything looked entirely different. Like, clearer. Odd, when you consider that there is a regional soot ( Read more... )