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Saturday, February 6th, 2010When I woke up this morning there was none of the usual drone from Nick Jr. in the living room. Only what sounded like a semi-serious conversation from behind Henry’s bedroom door between him and the girl who lives upstairs. She’s two years older than him; her brother is two years older than her, and [...]
The Day I Got the Hell on With It Already
Friday, February 5th, 2010I’ve been running my head into this one piece of work for the past three days now. I should’ve been done with it yesterday afternoon. It’s not particularly difficult. It’s not something I have to search my soul or confront uncomfortable truths to finish up. It’s just a couple of damn web pages’ worth of [...]
The Day We All Got Snakes.
Thursday, February 4th, 2010Upon arriving home from preschool and shopping just now, Henry informed me of the following: We all have pet snakes now. His pet snake is named John. Erin’s is named Albert. (Albert is a girl.) Mine is named 37. He is 11 feet long. John eats leaves and beef. Today is The Day We All [...]
The Day We Ran Out of Nutella
Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010Yeah, not a lot going on for Wednesday. But seriously, my options were this or like, “The Day I Went to Evanston For Another Meeting,” and I hope you can guess which incident I’d rather tell you about. Well, all right, fine, there’s not really much more to tell. Except that Trader Joe’s has these [...]
The Day I Had to Buy a New Car Battery
Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010We were dropping Henry at school, and Erin was gonna drop me at the coffee shop afterward. I work there frequently, exercising my limitless freedom as a telecommuter by purchasing sandwiches I can’t afford. We stopped in the bus zone, put the blinkers on, and stood around in the snow as Henry made little snowballs [...]
The Day I Had This Idea.
Monday, February 1st, 2010I don’t know if it’s a function of age, or crushing-but-desperately-necessary routine, or prescription medication, or what, exactly, but what’s become so alarming to me about my life over the past couple of years is how it’s all been running together in one big mass of days I don’t remember, or weeks or months I [...]
what have I been doing?
Wednesday, June 10th, 2009After failing yet again at NaBloPoMo, you say? (I believe that may have been a record for me. Three days?) Well I will tell you. I have been tending to my newest and best hobby. No, not getting rejected for jobs for which I am deeply qualified. The other hobby: A good pal has a [...]
kind of not heroic
Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009Though it doesn’t directly relate to heroes or heroism, I noticed this on several of our cereal boxes not long ago and was overcome with the sad hilarity of it. There are certain items or concepts that are inherently hilarious when you precede them with the word “Free,” and haircut is like 19 of those [...]
we can be heeeeeeewooooooes
Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009So the theme for NaBloPoMo this month is “Heroes.” Not the godawful show, but the broader concept. My feelings on the former are honestly more clear-cut than those on the latter; the concept of heroism, for example, did not start sucking goat balls two episodes into the second season. Here’s the part where I lazily [...]
ah, Spring.
Monday, June 1st, 2009What have I been up to? I’ll tell you what I’ve been up to. Spreading misery, that’s what. Gus did maybe not need that much of a bath, in retrospect. The whole thing got started because Smudge’s dandruff was off the fucking chain, to the point where she became enraged whenever she’d see a Head [...]
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