The Green Room

My doctor has written a letter to my boss saying that I need to work less. I think that she’s right, but I hate that that’s so.

You know you’ve reached a special place in your relationship when your sweetie comes home from work and your first response is, “Oh yay! You bought a weedwhacker!”

To do today: 1. Breakfast 2. get dressed 3. pick raspberries 4. go to Division Hardware and pick up two replacement screws and wingnuts for the crib 5. go to Freddie’s for -7 4 11×14 picture frames – only picked up three, as I couldn’t find any super cheap ones that would work, I’ll have [...]

I have been having the kind of day where I consistently write down the date wrong, and then sit there staring at it for five minutes trying to figure out what the problem is. Simple, brainless, familiar parts of my job have been leaving me utterly perplexed, and lunchtime yoga just made me feel more [...]

My dad recently lent me his copy of John J. Pullen’s The Twentieth Maine, which, given my obsessions with all things Civil War, it’s rather astonishing that I hadn’t read it already. I’ve read histories of the war as a whole, dealing with the broad sweeping movements of whole armies, and I’ve read individual histories, [...]

My plan for the day so far involves yoga and a pedicure. After that, I’m up for suggestions. (I kind of want to go in search of the new Sock Dreams store, but that involves convincing someone with a car and a driver’s license to go with me. Any takers?)

How is it that Gogol Bordello has had a new album out for almost two months now and I didn’t know about it? Grar!

Ryan and I opened a joint checking account today. It made me feel adorably grown-up, and also very happy because once we finish getting all the bits for this account set up, I am closing my account with Chase once and for all. I am so fed up with them. Credit unions, on the other [...]

When I think of my deep, primal instinct in times of trouble to look to my mother, and how soon there will be someone in this world who looks to me with that kind of assurance, I become completely terrified. How it is that the entire human race hasn’t fallen off the cliff in a [...]

The visiting relatives are gone, which means it is time to get caught up again on both sleep and the internet. It is deeply, deeply weird to look down at your stomach and see it bumping and twitching, and to know that it isn’t you that’s making it move, it’s an entirely other being that’s [...]