Against Entropy

My introductions and first microfiction are up!  Check them out at Pulp Decameron.

You may have noticed that the Monologues have been lacking recently.  This is in part because I have been saving my insights on daily life for a different project on which I have been working.  I have been invited to contribute a decalogue of really really short stories (anywhere between five sentences and a few hundred words) to Pulp Decameron, ( Read more... )

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Have you guys heard about Linda Hirshman?  I found out about her yesterday by stumbling upon a great editorial by her in the  Washington Post Outlook section titled "Everybody Hates Linda", along with a photographic depiction of her with the devil's horns and goatee.  As it turns out, the editorial is titled after a website dedicated to Dr. ( Read more... )

You are reading the post of an official server at Obi Sushi (my status as of yersterday).  Stop by sometime.  The Reston Town Center is loads of fun (I promise) and has free parking!

I didn't get it.  Gators, here I come!  (All in all, I'm really glad that the matter is finally settled.)

Background: I went to Montreal last week to graduate from McGill, pack my belongings, stuff them in the car, and then take naps in the backseat as dad, and sometimes mum, drove back down to Reston, Virginia.

In Reston once again, my training at Obi Sushi continues.  When I finish training I take a test, and then officially become a watiress.  In ( Read more... )

As we hesitantly entered Spikes, all eyes were on us.  The crowd was largely aged 40 and up, mostly blue-collar, female as well as male.  They sat around the bar talking.  Cowboy hats were in view.  No music was playing.  It would have perhaps been slightly less awkward had there been a bit of  a Country-Western soundtrack.  Eyeing the crowd and ( Read more... )