I do love to torture myself with things that I can’t control, so I’ve been obsessively checking the extended forecast for the wedding day. It’s part paranoia, part a deep need to worry, and part …
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the Forecast
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the shaking
Yesterday, earthquake scientists released some earthquake science data about some earthquake science stuff, that basically led to lots of news articles about an earthquake warning for Southern California including lots of graphics such as this: …
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the urge
Is anyone else sometimes completely overcome by an aggressive need to time travel back to when there was no such thing as phones that lived in our pockets and so we left our houses free …
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miss this
I was reading a short story before bed in which the writer described, in great detail, the feeling of Winter having left, Spring having not yet arrived. The whole world gray and melting and wet. …
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IT’S NOT REAL
After trying numerous (albeit drug store) brands of lipstick / stain, I am convinced that there is no such thing as a lipstick that does NOT make you look like you literally ate a bunch …
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these jerks
Phone developer person: People are really happy with our product. Other phone developer: You’re right, they are. Phone developer person:…perhaps a little TOO happy. Other phone developer: you’re RIGHT. They’re far TOO happy. Phone developer …
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my go-to
One of my favorite things to do is to notice the self-destructive patterns in my own behavior and, you know, not do anything about them. My most recent epiphany: when I find something to worry …
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never not done
Just when you think that all of your affairs are in order, all boxes checked, all relationships tended to and laundry done and writings written and messages sent, YOU HAPPEN UPON THE SECRET ‘MESSAGE REQUESTS’ …
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IT’S REAL IT’S REAL IT’S REAL
THAT TIME YOU GET HOME FROM THE GYM TO FIND THAT YOUR WEDDING DRESS HAS ARRIVED AND IS JUST SITTING THERE IN A BIG BOX AND WELL, THERE IT IS, IT’S REAL
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midnight stress salad
Last night, I could not sleep. This has been happening more and more as the wedding draws closer and as life becomes larger, just in general. I laid there from 11 to 1 am, and …