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Three negligible events from today have reminded me how much I love my life situation:
1.) I was at a stoplight, playing loud music with rather R-rated lyrics. And loving it. Singing along, tapping my hands on the steering wheel, the whole bit. Next to me was a woman about my age, with two little kids [...]

Bridesmaid Commandments

For starters, I am very ready for this to be over. I am thrilled and hopeful for my cousin, and for the most part have enjoyed lending a helping hand in her wedding. But it’s also been emotionally exhausting and time consuming.
Anyhow, as I’m sitting here trying to finish the final outline of my reception [...]

Sex and the City afterglow

No better or more eloquent way to put it: I went to see the SATC movie last night with some girlfriends — and I LOVED it. I have never cried so many individual times during a movie in my life. Each time I thought I had gotten a grip on my waterworks, Samantha (surprisingly) or [...]

The Good Stuff

Perhaps I have been a bit curmudgeonly the last week or so. I could present a dozen or so lousy excuses, but instead of dwelling on it I would rather point out some lovely things from the past 24 hours of my life:
1.) Yesterday at work, a few teachers and I threw a surprise party for one [...]

Health Insurance Bias and Sex Ed Advocacy, all in one long breath.

Everyone knows that health insurance business can be, well, vile and reprehensible. If you’re not aware of that, I recommend you watch the film documentary Sicko.                                                             [...]

Sorry ladies, he’s spoken for

I know I frequently contend that I have, sharing my life with me in happy domestic partnership, the World’s Greatest Boyfriend. And I DO firmly believe that. He is an amazing human being to begin with; I’ve been fascinated with him ever since I met him at a party thrown by a mutual friend about [...]

Quotes, Sherman Alexie, miscommunication and other things making me happy today

I just read an entire novel in two sittings. I started it last night and fell asleep 30 pages into it (it was either the long week or the strong drink that made me fall asleep — NOT the book); then when I got up in the morning I decided to read some more… and [...]

Logic, me-style

We were walking home from a lottery ticket run (it’s HIS addiction, not mine) last night, and I whipped out the candy I had bought from the nice eastern European guy who works at the diner where we aquire our weekly mega-millions ticket when we had this lovely conversation:
Him: You got a Twix? Really? When [...]

Good Day.

I feel so ON today. I’m on top of teachingstuff/comitteestuff/researchstuff, I recently did a major overhaul of my closet organization, I started going to yoga 2 or 3 times per week again and hitting the gym on the other days; family relations are doing well despite all the normal junk; I’ve been making time for [...]

Pretty Good Year

(*yes, that was a conscious reference to the Tori Amos song. :))
Well, here goes: the first annual Year In Review post.  Oh-seven has been a year of drastic changes and events, so I figured it was worth it.
                 mid-late Winter - went to Las Vegas with girlfriends, where my purse went for a swim in [...]