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Dear Former County

You suck. I mean, I already knew that you sucked. You proved it four years ago when you didn’t listen to our valid roadway concerns way back in the day, choosing to side with a company in Ohio and Toyota over your residents (count your lucky stars there hasn’t been an accident on that road [...]

Filed under: Then Comes Marriage, To Ann Arbor, With Love

The World’s Feeling Poetic?

Did the world suddenly become obsessed with sonnets? Check out my searches for the past day. Yes, day.

cute sonnet
Sonnet about marines
school kid sonnet
grandmother sonnet
sonnet champions
sonnet to money
I need a sonnet about running
sonnets on dreams of becoming a photographer
published sonnets about family
sonnet about Mexicans
sonnet about my father (twice!)
hockey sonnet (thrice!)
sonnet little brother
sonnet shoes
sonnet about [...]

Filed under: The Word Geek Lives

Solutions for When Your Lunch Disappoints You

My lunch was kind of bad. The chicken and pureed beans and cheese part of it? Yum. The enchilada sauce part of it? Not so hot. I experimented a bit with the traditional recipe my mother gave me and the enchilada gods were far from kind. Enraged is a [...]

Filed under: Lacking a Muse - Generalities

Another Weekend, Another Race

Well, not really; it’s not like I’ve been racing all these weekends and keeping it from my loyal readership of three. But I did drag my ass downtown to participate in the 21st Annual St. Patrick’s Day 8K on Sudnay. And lo, it was good.
I ran a bit slower because I decided to [...]

Filed under: The Elegant Runner

My One Movie Crush

Jurassic Park III! Sam Neill! My first paleontologist love! I will forever find it funny that I fell in love with Alan Grant in 1993, and am marrying an honest-to-god paleontologist in 2009. Not that I set out to find a paleontologist—purely luck of the draw and he does not work [...]

Filed under: Lacking a Muse - Generalities

Testing Blog, One, Two, Three . . .

I was locked out of my blog for the weekend. It seems that my current IP address at home is blacklisted and, subsequently, I couldn’t access my blog or the WordPress admin page. Since my IP (address, not fiancé) will eventually refresh itself (and I can access the blog at work), I figure [...]

Filed under: Lacking a Muse - Generalities

The New Trench

Call it a momentary slip-up, a lapse in judgment. Call it an impulse buy. But when I saw this trench coat, I could not resist. Especially in orange? Dude, where’s my debit card?
I’ve been diligently guarding my money, funneling it into ING’s woeful savings account (woeful because they keep on dropping [...]

Filed under: Lacking a Muse - Generalities

I’m Happy to See . . .

That spending $10,000 on my M.A., obtained from a prestigious Canadian university, has not gone to waste: after all, I get to print up documents for someone whose index finger is apparently broken!  Squee!
Jesus Christ.  Paying those student loan bills is painful simply because this place is so damn unfulfilling.  I was promised this wouldn’t [...]

Filed under: Pet Peeves

Wedding Fatigue with Six Months to Go

Ay.
So I’ve been off of all things wedding-related for the past two weeks. In the interim, my bridesmaids have ordered their dresses, my fiancé and his best men have been casually discussing suits, and two of the save-the-date/invitations that we sent out have been returned as undeliverable to me (I somehow transposed the street [...]

Filed under: Then Comes Marriage

The Short Story Quest Begins: The Book List

There is a new biography of Flannery O’Connor out this week: Brad Gooch’s Flannery: A Life of Flannery O’Connor. This coincides nicely with my first book list of 2009; I just finished The Complete Stories and have been toting around the tome in order to write the book list in my off time.
First know [...]

Filed under: The Book List 2009