In medias res

Since I am working from home today, I seized the opportunity to do some music rating in iTunes. A few months ago, I started an emusic subscription, and since then, I’ve been adding a lot of music to my library, most of which I have not had a chance to listen to. Perhaps it’s just [...]

A friend quoted Gautier in her blog months ago; the specific quote was “To love is to admire with the heart; to admire is to love with the mind.” I’ve been turning it over in my mind since. Obviously, it does not entirely sum up love, or perhaps even accurately approximate love. It feels true [...]

What a difference a few weeks make when they involve moving from a workplace where I had to put up with death threats and illegalities to a kinder, gentler workplace. I’m now sleeping sans Ambien, and pretty well, doing WAY better on the depression front, and feeling more calm.
Lots of my energy is currently going [...]

Vick and I were eating dinner when D got home tonight, and when he walked in the door, she looked up at him and said, “Haven’t we told you dinner is at seven sharp?” But it was too late. He was late for happy hour. And all the new clothes and shoes he [...]

My tax dilemma worked out ok. Well, if redoing them last weekend counts as ok, they worked out. Two hours chatting with tech support from H&R Block elicited such poor information that I eventually left the conversation in a flurry of “fuck!!!” s and “I can’t believe this.”
But, did the taxes over with Turbo Tax, [...]

In what seems like an attempt to get me to pay additional money for “human” help with my taxes, H&R block’s website is declining to eFile my tax return because of an error on the IRA contributions section. Funny thing is, I had no IRA activity. None. Never have. I feel guilty about it, but [...]

The new job is cool, outside of my terror of security snatching up my laptop if I leave it alone for a second or yelling at me if I take the stairs and forget to hold the rail. In that, it reminds me of kindergarten. We are sort of homeless at this point, meeting in [...]

Memory is a strange thing. My memory of perceptions and the written word tends to be fairly consistent, but the spoken word generally stays with me in paraphrases. I remember, however, a professor talking about the significance of “the father” in Western culture(s), and saying “The father knows everything. Nothing happens without his knowledge, and [...]

Nice one, Google! “Gmail utilizes an e-flux capacitor to resolve issues of causality”…ha!