My high school girlfriends came to visit this past weekend (brief tangent: am I the only one who has trouble with this? Last weekend, to me, implies the weekend before the most recently past weekend, so I always feel the need to clarify. No? Am I just nuts? Moving on.) and we went to the [...]
Did you know that when a tanker truck leaks hydrochloric acid on a major highway, they’ll close that highway down and divert all traffic onto an alternate route? Did you also know that this is particularly inconvenient when one is on a schedule and there really isn’t a direct alternate route to be taken? Would [...]
Most of the time, working in a cube farm is annoying. Sometimes, however, I get to overhear rather amusing conversations on which I would otherwise miss out. Witness:
Yesterday when I picked up Miss T from daycare they told me that she had vomited twice, once after each solid meal. She had also been running a low-grade fever, but not enough to call me at work. So after that report, I began to suspect that maybe she had another stealth ear infection. I [...]
I saw three movies over the weekend. In their entirety, completely uninterrupted (well, almost. When movie-watching at a home with young children there are virtually always interruptions, even if said children are supposed to be in bed. Also, sometimes I run out of wine). I even saw a movie within 5 years of its release [...]
