In medias res

I’ve gotten so used to the remodeling chaos around here that when I got home (to B’s home) from work this evening, I thought about cleaning the floors a bit, then discarded the idea since the Shop Vac is outside.
Tangentially, any time you are reduced to using a Shop Vac to clean the floors inside, [...]

I was lying in bed this morning, complaining to myself about how much my ankle is hurting now that its forced vacation in a cast has ended. It had grown accustomed to drinking mojitos and napping, or whatever it has been up to for the past couple of months, and now that it is pressed [...]

This is old news, but a couple weeks ago, a tug pushed a barge into a pylon on a Columbia River bridge. That, of course, falls into the whatever category, since no significant damage was done and no one was injured. However, I can’t get it out of my mind because of the name of [...]

Google’s April Fool’s Day joke this year really was great.
I spent this great holiday working from home, which of course involved breaking into the microbrew around 3 pm. The hatred I have been feeling toward certain players at work has escalated to contempt, and being powerless to change things, I have resolved to stop worrying [...]

In a sparkling example of pain-induced imcompetence, I recently made two copies of F’s keys and gave them to Dr. M. so she could get into my house. I only realized the mistake when Dr. M. told me it didn’t work on my door.
In my defense, I haven’t used my house keys in two months, since I’m not [...]

I had a very much un-look-forwarded-to dinner with A tonight. I haven’t seen her for a few weeks due to being lucky being busy, and was almost getting used to not having a super needy, demanding friend asking me for constant favors. “Please do my taxes.” “Please drive (way over) to my place this weekend [...]

A month or so ago, I wrote about online dating. I didn’t wind up meeting the Irish guy. I told everyone to go to hell and cancelled my match.com account. Well, everyone except for #4, “B.” He proved absolutely irresistible. I think I was wondering about how hard I was falling for him even when [...]

Last year, on the anniversary of Roe v Wade, I had an abortion. I didn’t realize the synchronicity at the time. And I didn’t remember it was the anniversary until a moment ago, when I saw this story about Obama reaffirming the right to choose.
I regret all the circumstances, economic, cultural, interpersonal, and familial, that [...]

This year’s round of faculty reviews are a reminder that it has been nearly a year since I met F. I still have his self-assessment from last year somewhere, all marked up with my comments and advice…as if he needs it.
Currently, I also have his dog, who thinks I am Gawd. Visits to my house [...]

I’ve been caught up in the longest winter-storm-turns-into-Christmas holiday of my life. It has extended my planned two weeks out of town to three, drained my bank accounts in remuneration style, kept me away from the internet in general and blogging in particular, and made me quite fat.
For starters, celebrating the Season of Eating in [...]