In my dream, I’ve just spent an hour at a curve in a steep, windy road through a forest. Specifically, it’s the road which led from Bell Center Rd up to the farmhouse in which I grew up. We used to ride toboggans down it during winter; it was that steep.
I’ve spent the [...]
I was talking with friends recently about quitting my job, and after a small amount of mental math, I realized that I’ve worked at Upromise for a bit over a fifth of my life. 7 years, 1 month. So it’s perhaps not surprising that I’ve been having recurring anxiety dreams and troubles sleeping [...]
Falwell in Hell | The Stranger | Seattle’s Only Newspaper
Dan Savage notes that the “Reverend” Fred “God Hates Fags” Phelps and his crazed, inbred, parishioners/children are going to picket at Jerry Falwell’s funeral because Jerry Falwell was too inclusive in his preaching.
Seriously. You can’t make this stuff up. Or, as commenter [...]
Musings on Food | The Public Radio Talent Quest
… and lo! I squeaked my entry in just in the nick of time.
Feeling bored? Got a couple of minutes to kill? I’d love it if people (who wanted to) would register and rank my entry, as well as the many other fine entries [...]
… For like a week I’d been suffering from such deep seated self-doubt that I hadn’t been able to pick up so much as a bar of soap without thinking, “I’m not going to do this right.”
– Chris Onstad’s Achewood character, Teodor Orezscu
Rough day, yesterday. Everyone at work is tense and cranky as the [...]