Leaving Chicago in a few minutes for the train station to New York. Good times were had with various people and now there will be more good times had with more people. That's all I got for now.

OK, goodbye now, West Coast.

Did you ever have the feeling that you wanted to go and still get the feeling that you wanted to stay?
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All week I've been packing, erranding, dealing with loan paperwork, moving paperwork, mailing boxes, and going to the gym with Eve for a schvitz and a swim, then drinking Detox tea and talking. Swimming at the lake, sunbathing at the beach, the ( Read more... )

Every family I babysit or housesit for has the same goddamn Dead Can Dance CD. I'm not sure what to make of it. Dead Can Dance should play Whidbey, I guess.

Got a Vox invitation from
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I've been using Backpackit.com like it's my job. This is one of the best organizational web apps I've seen around. Ok, it's the only organizational web app I've seen, but I'm in like spit. It rocks. Not only can you make multiple lists and pages and notes, but you can reorder the lists or list items at any time . . . and best of all, you can share ( Read more... )

Bobbed my hair Dorothy Parker-style. Just confirms my belief that people who drastically cut or dye their hair just secretly want to be someone else for a little while ( Read more... )

There's a weekend-long festival in town this weekend, which I have to work during. No complaints, really.  They need me.

We have a stage set up in front of the shop for music and poetry readings. God knows why (because I know and like the woman organizing it and I wanted to do her a favor and when I said I wanted to back out she said "I already ( Read more... )

An afternoon spent reading neurology and psychology studies turned up this paper. Finally, someone has explained the problem with incompetent people: they are too stupid to even know how stupid they are.

Ken Lay is dead.