Category Trials and Tribulations
Chicago to Rapid City
For some reason I thought that spring had arrived and this trip across America would not involve white-knuckle driving through blizzards. Maybe that’s because I’ve been spending time in DC and Seattle, where we’ve already hit the second round of flowering shrubs and bulbs and most trees are basically leafed out. Not so in these […]
I may be going to hell now
So, I go to the gym tonight in the middle of the alleged snowstorm of the century, and on the way home I learn a valuable life lesson: Snow is super bad for my eternal salvation. I mean, here I am looking at the footprints in the snow and judging all the people who have […]
UNSPEAKABLE
Look, people, just LOOK at what is on offer in the men’s pajama section of Target. I just — I don’t — are there even words for this? These are the pajama equivalent to eating Doritos in public. Can anyone say “crisis of American masculinity”? Um, Lisa Frank called and wants her Trapper Keeper pjs […]
Stage moms and tow trucks
Tonight I managed to duck out of the office early enough to see Signature Theatre’s current production Gypsy with my friend Melanie. I’d never seen the show before and this production has gotten great reviews (and accordingly is sold out most nights), so I was excited when I managed to snag the tickets. It’s essentially the […]
The bunny and the steamroller
I’m back! At least for a minute. (Now I’m going to ramble for a minute, so if you want to jump to the good stuff — including cannibalism — feel free to scroll down.) Things have been relentless, to say the least. Remember back in August when I thought it would be a good idea to sign up […]
This is why they invented dark chocolate
I’m not gonna lie: today was rough. I’m trying to take all of next week off, you see, to visit family and reground myself; pretend like I have roots or something. And with today being the last work day before I left, I needed to get everything in a place where I could be gone. […]
Still here
I promise, people, I’m not dead or boring — just completely swamped at work. The last couple of weeks, and this week in particular, have been one of those periods when I feel like I earn every last one of those “big bucks” they pay me. From a sheer hours perspective, it hasn’t been as bad […]
Rage Break
I am about to HAVE AN ANEURYSM at the document support staff at my firm. They persecute me with their incompetence. Why — WHY!! — is it so hard for people to do their jobs? This firm rakes in something like $600 million every year and we have some of the top legal minds and most cutting-edge legal work in the […]
Mekong River Delta – The yin and the yang
Today was an exercise in appreciating the principle that there must be opposition in all things. And by “appreciating”, I mean “feeling really annoyed by” (for the most part, anyway; by the end of the day things sort of balanced out). Having seen the major sights in Saigon yesterday, we set aside today for a […]
It’s all fun and games until you start ripping the flesh off your body
At Crossfit this morning we got hit with the benchmark workout known as “Helen,” which consists of three rounds, for time, of a 400 meter run, 21 kettlebell swings with a 24-kilo kettlebell, and 12 pullups. Normally Crossfit workouts aren’t repeated, but Helen is one of the benchmark workouts that gets trotted out periodically so that we […]
A More Gentlemanlike Manner 