February 2012
37 posts
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The Price of Happiness
All W2s are in. A bit of a reality check. It’s taken me 6 months at my current place of employment to make what I earned in 2 months of employment at my previous job (which I held for 3 years). I wouldn’t have it any other way.
Feb 1st
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January 2012
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Jan 31st
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Jan 31st
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“There is no question that some regulations are outdated, unnecessary, or too...”
– Obama (via kateoplis)
Jan 25th
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Jan 25th
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Jan 24th
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Jan 24th
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All Time Favorite Snack
Chips and salsa Or Cookies and ice cream I canNOT choose! Please don’t make me.
Jan 24th
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Jan 24th
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Jan 24th
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Jan 23rd
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Jan 22nd
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“The joy of bourbon drinking is not the pharmacological effect of the C2H5OH on...”
– Walker Percy in “Bourbon, Neat,” quoted by Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. Since I first read this essay, when I was perhaps fourteen or fifteen years old, I have remembered that invaluable phrase precisely and used it on occasion: “hot bosky bite.” For some time, I supposed —stupidly— that...
Jan 21st
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Jan 21st
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Jan 21st
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Jan 20th
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Jan 19th
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Jan 19th
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Jan 17th
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Jan 16th
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Jan 16th
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Jan 15th
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Jan 14th
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Jan 14th
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Jan 13th
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Date Night Gone Bad
The Plan: Ride bikes to Green for dinner then to Crescent Ballroom to see Cass McCombs. We order the tofu jerk salad and Thai peanut bowl and proceed to scarf our dinner. Literally. We are in and out of a busy sit-down restaurant in 20 minutes. Why? Maybe we are pigs? Before our food has even had time to digest, we hop on our bikes and scurry over to Crescent. I’m pretty sure the whole...
Jan 13th
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Apocalyps Twinkies
Hostess has filed for bankruptcy, primarily due to a significant decrease in twinkie sales. Is this indicative of progress in the American diet? Or the epitome of a buy-low-sell-high long term investment? Fifty years from now when you find yourself with a killer hankering for a twinkie, I’d be happy to sell you one at $20 a pop.  Freshness guaranteed!
Jan 12th
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Jan 12th
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Jan 11th
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Tales of a Day Time Bartender
A 50-year-old man walks into the bar and asks for a glass of Chardonnay TO GO. Dude, you’re old as ass and should know better, but way to keep it classy, sorta.
Jan 10th
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Jan 9th
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Jan 9th
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Jan 9th
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Jan 8th
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That moment when you would kill for chocolate
And attempt to make chocolate chip cookies using random ingredients from your cupboard, including mesquite flour and peanut butter.
Jan 8th
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How To Be Leisurely Productive
Ride bike to farmers market. Ride bike to coffee. Make farm fresh brunch. Read on the couch with glass of wine.
Jan 8th
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Jan 7th
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Jan 6th
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Jan 6th
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Jan 5th
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First Time
I’m running the dishwasher in the our apartment for the first time since we moved in a year ago. Dear god, please do not flood the downstairs neighbor.
Jan 4th
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Jan 4th
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Jan 4th
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Farewell Aunt Bootsy
Two goldfish in one year. Do I suck that hard or are goldfish just not meant to live forever? :(
Jan 3rd
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Jan 1st
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Intelligentsia
First espresso of the new year. Hot damn, it’s gonna be a good one.
Jan 1st
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