So, I totally had a WONDERBOYS moment last week. As some of you know, I've been doing some publishing work this summer. The other day, I threw a file folder box filled with a 430 page manuscript into the back of my car and headed for the 405. I hit the freeway with my windows all rolled down and was doing a comfortable 70 mph when suddenly the ( Read more... )

You know I only do these when I'm avoiding work (which in this case is writing a glossary for a textbook on globalization). Anyway, it's too hot for me to be up in the computer room and be expected to THINK ( Read more... )

Last night I saw my first love for the first time in two years. Was he my first love, really? Probably not. That's giving both of us a little too much credit, that's looking at things a little more optomistically than I generally like to. As usual, my flair for the melodramatic deceives me. But, to be brutally honest, he was the first one to ( Read more... )

Beth and I saw Mr. and Mrs. Smith last night. I should remind myself that I generally don't like action movies. I really REALLY didn't like this one. Actually, a main problem is that I really, really HATE Angelina Jolie, and any movie with her in it has some MAJOR handicaps to overcome to win me over. The best part of the movie was the icee I ( Read more... )

OMG THEY FOUND OUT WHO DEEPTHROAT IS!!!!

This day has been the biggest waste of time, I don't even know how to explain it to anybody. I should be in a worse mood about it, but just the fact that I have time to waste is kind of pleasing ( Read more... )

Man, I had to take some allergy medicine this morning and now I feel sorta stoned. I've been sitting in the WC in some sort of haze just staring at everyone and making half-assed attempts at productivity. I hope this stuff gets out of my system soon. At least it's not claritin, which makes me a little crazy and weepy ( Read more... )

THREE NAMES I GO BY ( Read more... )

I feel compelled to update, but I have no purpose. I'm in a perpetual state of giddiness these days, in part because of the gorgeous weather and in part because in seven weeks I graduate from college. I don't really know what's going to come next. I wish I wasn't so limited by my reliance on top-notch health insurance. My vague notion of the ( Read more... )

Going to Tijuana was, in a strange way, like coming home. Perhaps I was well prepared for what I was going to see, but at first the sights of poverty didn't inspire a deep emotional reaction in me, and merely confirmed what I already feel and know. As the week moved along, and I spent more time speaking with the people we were working with (in ( Read more... )