geek.

I’ve been relegated to glasses for a week because of the… sorry. I’m pausing for a minute, because as I’m writing this, I’m channel surfing. And as I channel surf I see Topanga (you Boy Meets World fans should know who that is) presenting a two week stale “Dish” to me on style network, [...]

some assembly required.

The phone has rung three times, and no one is answering.
One more.
“Hey, baby.”
I need you to come home.
“Right now? What’s wrong?”
Can you start driving now?
“Jessica, what’s wrong? Are you okay?”
No. It’s an emergency.
I can hear the springs on the couch as he sits up. “Jessica.”
I can’t put this shelf together by myself… I can’t even [...]

out of words.

“This Present Moment” by Jill Carattini
We are profoundly unaware of the present. That is, the here and now, the place that we always are, is the place that we are least likely to see for what it fully is. Blaise Pascal, though living four centuries ago, keenly diagnosed this human [...]

eights.

I would be sitting in bed as per usual typing up the fascinating incidents that constitute my day, but as I went to pull up my laptop to write this, I realized that it is sitting forlornly in my car. Stupid, stupid, stupid.
So now I’m plugging out the fascinating incidents that constituted my day [...]

the birds.

On days when I don’t have to, I don’t enjoy waking up early. Take today for example: I woke up at noon, excusing the late awakening by telling myself that it won’t be long before I don’t have any weekday mornings to sleep in on. So this early afternoon as I was sitting [...]

Olympics

I never thought I’d find the source of inspiration for this blog from Michael Kors, but he said it best Wednesday night during the new episode of Project Runway:
“Olympians are the closest things to superheroes we’ve got.”
I don’t know if I have adequate words to describe the men’s 4×100 relay this evening… “wow” should say [...]

happy saturday.

I’m not sure what you expect from me by reading this blog. Maybe you expect daily funnies, extremely accurate sociological insight (because let’s be honest, I have 18 hours of it that constitute a minor). Maybe you expect fascinating quips about every day life, a weight-loss frustration journal, or maybe you want to know [...]