Category Ordinary Life
Play hard, work hard, then take a night off
Do you ever just want a night off? Like, where you get to take time out from everything you’re doing (not just work) and recuperate for a minute? Me too. And I don’t even have kids or cows or a Chicago-style mail-order catalog business to worry about. Just my own little life. Which is enough. […]
Not myself
Okay, so here’s a weird thing that my family (or, at least, I) learned about my grandfather recently: He apparently gets migraines but doesn’t feel them. I mean, he can tell they’re happening and all because other symptoms (like the aura) occur, but he doesn’t feel any pain. Which is kind of cool, like a quasi super-power […]
Reconnect!
So I walk into the Verizon store to buy a new phone, and the guy looks me up and says, “I see you bought insurance — just call this number and they’ll send you a replacement phone overnight.” I love it when I’m a responsible adult and buy insurance. (Even if, when the crisis occurs, […]
Phone-less, again.
I am having the worst luck with iPhones. I’ve hade one for less than a year, and already I’ve lost two. The first time it fell out of my bag in a Crate & Barrel while I was shopping for shower curtains. This time it fell off my seat during a standing ovation at the Kennedy […]
Snowquester!
The great thing about DC snowstorms is that they generate ENORMOUS hype and anxiety, and only very rarely live up to it — which means I get to enjoy all the drama of a weather emergency without the inconvenience of the real thing. For example, today: DC is supposed to get socked by the last big […]
March!
The worst part about early March is that you think it’s spring but it’s still freezing cold. All I want is for it to be warm and sunny and green outside! What better way to ring in a new month and distract myself from the cold air and snowy weather forecast than planning a trip to warm and […]
I’ve got goldfish in my fridge
It’s one thing to leave your ornamental goldfish outside overnight when there’s a light freeze: The fish just keep swimming happily under the ice. I think they’re pretending to be killer whales, waiting for a baby seal to fall through the ice so they can eat it. It’s another thing altogether to leave them outside when […]
Three things of note
I. I got my teeth sanded today. Didn’t bother me too much while it was happening, but now it’s totally weirding me out — first time in my life that I’ve had space between my bottom teeth* and been a vampire at the same time. How do I know I’m a vampire? Because (a) I was bitten by vampire […]
Sculpt
I may have found a cure (or at least a partial cure) for hating the cold and darkness of winter: It’s called Sculpt, and it’s a studio that offers yoga and spinning (i.e., indoor cycling) classes a couple of blocks from my office. It opened only a month or so ago, and one of my friends at the […]
Election Day
Election day today! After three-and-a-half hours standing in line outside in the cold (temps in the mid-30s), I’m happy to report that I have fulfilled my civic responsibility and participated in this democratic experiment. I missed a half-day of work, but with Virginia being a key battle-ground state, I think it was well worth it […]
A More Gentlemanlike Manner 