It has been a strange week. I’ve woken up on two couches and seen 4am pass me by while conscious three times (and the second time wasn’t even a long night, I just happened to wake up then.) Thanks to some dark mixture of serious caffeine and a few concentrated bouts of sugar consumption, time [...]
After a brief visit, my parents have moved on towards Santa Cruz to visit Margaret, and I’m back to eating scrambled eggs balanced on gas-station bread at my desk. It’s a good thing I only eat like a king a few days out of the year, as it might otherwise get to my head and [...]
Portland experienced its first summer day of 2009 yesterday. It was blue and warm and perfect and absolutely everybody was outside and in a good mood. This is the upswing of having a whole population that suffers from severe depression for six months out of the year. When they emerge on the opposite side, those [...]
I’m not known for having outstanding taste when it comes to birthday gifts (recall, the watertight credit card holder, the box of crayola markets ((sans black)), the two bags of M&Ms duct taped together, etc…) but that might be changing. This year, picking up on a stray comment that Andrea probably regrets having ever uttered, [...]