When I put on my contact lenses this morning, the left lens felt weird. Cold, like it was made of ice. It didn’t hurt, but it felt very strange, and not pleasant. But I didn’t feel like wearing glasses.
So I decided to bring my glasses and solution and case to work, in case my eye […]
When you are in the elevator with one other person, and the elevator stops, and the door opens, and you are standing in such a way that no one else can enter the elevator, it would be nice to move, as opposed to — say — looking shocked that someone might want to go through […]
So I can’t decide. My father’s car is fallen apart; he wants to get a new one. And since he’s in his 50s, he wants the mid-life crisis car: a (red) convertible. (Plus a bazoo for the winter, because you can’t drive a convertible in the winter here.)
Part of me is horrified: my father! Who […]
Fun, pretty, disturbingly addictive.
Yet another darling Chronicle article, this one saying that if you’re a local candidate who has any reasons (say, family) to stay local, you’re screwed, and you should just give up now.
For some readers, my observations may seem bleak and foreboding. I sympathize with the Ph.D. who cannot relocate because her mother has Alzheimer’s. I […]
Honorary degree to Henry Morgentaler.
I was going to congratulate the person who left the 2500th comment here, but, as it turns out, it’s me.
So I will toast myself with some Kahlua (yum) and go to sleep.
It’s SPRING. There’s no weather. There’s no nothing. And yet: power failure. But not of the neighbourhood, no. Just MY block. It’s always just my block. So I can look out my window on the houses across my back yard and see THEM watching SVU while I am in the dark, missing the show.
Cary Elwes?
I mean, yes, he’s in all sorts of bad movies now (as the ugly dude), but — I mean, he was Westley! The Dread Pirate Roberts!
This is a joke, right?