Last Tuesday I got to work almost a half hour late. I sat down at my desk (hey, at least I finally got a new desk) and fell brain first into the fog of apathy that thicken the air around my chair. I felt hung over and sluggish, but there had been no […]

Hey kids,
There is this cool thing out there called MetBlogs. There are over twenty of them in different cities across the world. The way it works is that ten people in a city sign on to be bloggers on the site for their city, and commit to posting three or more times a […]

Pi’ilani and Pomi
Originally uploaded by Marusula.
If you can believe it, these girls are my first cousins.

A couple weeks ago my friend Seth had an impromptu cookout (we can’t call it a barbeque, because as a native Texan, Ingrid protests to calling grilling barbequing). Seth, Jen, Georgia and I were sitting on Seth’s back deck and somehow the conversation turned to my blog. (Okay, it didn’t just turn to […]

My aunt Flora used to live on the 9th floor of my building. Flora is an aunt by marriage, my great-uncle Milty was her third husband and when they found themselves in love in their 50’s (and having known each other for much of their lives, Milty’s first wife was Flora’s childhood best friend), […]

I’m taking a mandatory online sexual harrassment training right now and that’s one of the section titles. It made me think of a situation I found myself in at my last job.
I used to work in the Executive Office of a large non-profit here in Philly. They treated me pretty badly, giving me […]

I had a spectacular day, and it wasn’t even my birthday today (yesterday)! Tomorrow, the actual day of my birthday I head to DC for my UUA Young Adult and Campus Ministry training of trainers. Hopefully it will be a fun weekend! I’ll write more when I get back, or maybe while […]

About a week ago I learned that they are going to be building a 39 story building on an empty lot near my apartment. This means that the very last little bit of view beyond the skyscrapers that this little unit in the heavens has held onto for the last 40 years is going […]

Hey kids,
So there is this blogger out there, named Jason Mulgrew. He mostly writes about sex, alcohol, drugs and poop, so of course he’s got a pretty big following. He recently put out a call for people to help promote him, in exchange for a link on his blog. Because I’d like […]

I work in an office in the basement, right off the loading dock. Most days the scent of second hand smoke wafts into my space from the assortment of mail distribution, environmental and cafeteria workers who use the dock as their personal club house. I freeze in the winter and am constantly swatting […]