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Karsten and I were just about to go out for dinner when my coworker K called. He said they had two extra tickets to see Carole King tonight at the Ryman Auditorium, if we were interested. Now, I’m not a

Finished reading Nick Hornby’s How To Be Good last night. I haven’t read anything else by Hornby, but I enjoyed both the film adaptations of About A Boy and High Fidelity, and in the commentary for the latter, the Weitz

Happy birthday, !

posted a link to a story about wild times in the Olympic village. It quotes my ex-boyfriend. It's “a two-week-long private party for thousands of hard-bodies,” says Nelson Diebel, an American swimmer who won gold twice in Barcelona.

OK. So. I've been working here at [Fortune 100 behemoth corporation] since April 2003. I've averaged somewhere around 65 high-intensity hours per week since I started. I have taken no vacation. I'm starting to crack. So a few weeks ago,

As a means of passing the time after work in an air-conditioned environment (since our power was still out), we went to see “Fahrenheit 9/11” last night. I'd read some reviews here and elsewhere that left me skeptical about how

Our power came back on last night around 10 PM. It had been out for over 24 hours. I was already asleep at that wacky hour because, hell, there's just about nothing else to do. But I got up and

the power at our apartment is Still. Out. Since last night. And I'm so not pleased about the fact that we're going to have to replace everything in our fridge and freezer. Blah.

I just got three copies of the next issue of Vegetarian Journal in the mail, complete with my article on Cajun & Creole cooking. I'm pretty sure I queried that article back in the spring of 2002. Gotta love editorial

I'm always disappointed when I encounter incompetence. I don't think I have unrealistically high expectations of people — in fact, I expect people to have varying levels of competence, yet I'm still disappointed by it. Perhaps it's just that I