apropos of anything

Chocolate. I’ve been thinking about it a lot lately, probably because I’ve been craving it, which means I’ve been combing through my cookbooks and various online recipe sites, looking for chocolate concoctions I’d love to make except they’re not practical for a household of two. Thirty-six chocolate cupcakes, for example, only last for so long [...]

I didn’t watch Grey’s Anatomy Sunday night because I got a phone call around nine that I didn’t want to cut short; I taped it instead as ABC hadn’t yet announced that they will be re-airing the episode on Thursday, and after last week’s cliffhanger episode that left Meredith’s hand in a bomb, I simply [...]

So many of my recent posts have been in the this-time-last-year vein that I feel like 2005 must have been extraordinarily eventful. It’s probably more that the events hit me so much harder, absorbed my thoughts and emotions so completely, that they’ve left a mark I’ll revisit year after year.
This was me a year ago [...]

Y’all know the drill… if you’re tagged, you gotta do it, especially if you’re just sitting up waiting until it’s time for you to take your parasite pills, so here it goes:
Four Jobs I’ve Had in My Life…
Receptionist/secretary/assistant in a doctor’s office
News editor at the Technique
TA for the introductory CS classes at the CoC
The one [...]

A few months ago, I talked about how I don’t really talk about myself much here on my personal blog, and how I should work on that and learn to open up more because that was the whole point of the blog. This post is me opening up. It might be gone tomorrow morning if [...]

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Somebody, I can’t remember who, once told me that anger was about control, or more specifically, about losing control. If somebody makes you angry, you’re ceding control to them because they are causing you to be angry. I don’t think the theory necessarily applies all the way across the board, and even if it does, [...]