Entries from November 2005

Thursday, November 3rd, 2005

Close to perfect

I met my friend Jess today for lunch. We ate potatoes she had baked in her office microwave, complete with sour cream, cheddar cheese, broccoli and black eyed peas. It wasn’t your standard work lunch and so to accompany it, we had not-so-standard conversation. We talked about the future and the past. [...]

Thursday, November 3rd, 2005

There is a new superhero in my life…

and his name is Blankbaby. Well, actually his name is Scott, but that’s not quite as superhero-y as Blankbaby.
Scott spend more than four hours last night (yes, that’s what I said, 4+ hours!!!) fixing my broken, yet still beloved, iBook. I think I may know owe him some cookies or my first born [...]

Wednesday, November 2nd, 2005

Uncle Andy

Last Saturday I got a call from my mother. She needed her younger (I’m constantly amazed at how relative age becomes as you get older. For my mom these days younger means 56) brother’s email address in order to send him a happy birthday message. My dad had swapped out her computer [...]

Tuesday, November 1st, 2005

Katey has a blog

Last month when I went to my college reunion, one of the people I was delighted to see was Katey. We lived in the same residence hall our freshman year, and rapidly became friends in the way you do when you first leave home. After freshman year, when we no longer lived in [...]