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Archive for April, 2006

Is spilling oatmeal onto your birthday bad luck?

Wednesday, April 12th, 2006

My calendar has been lying on my desk all morning, open (by some unrelated scheduling) to the week of my birthday. With one of my classically uncoordinated moves, I reached for my spoon, scooped up a mound of oatmeal from the bowl also sitting on my desk and then inadvertently dumped the entire spoonful [...]

New starts

Tuesday, April 11th, 2006

I went to a friend’s departmental goodbye party this afternoon. She was one of the first people I met when I moved to Philly, and now, after four years, she’s leaving for better things and exciting opportunities. This was the first of what I assume will be many send off events I’ll attend [...]

Sidewalk encounter

Monday, April 10th, 2006

I left work early today. I don’t often do things like that, mostly because I have a boss who doesn’t let me, but also because I start to finally get productive right around 3 pm and so need to harness that energy. Today, however, my boss was out of the office, I wasn’t [...]

Apologizing for being a twit

Sunday, April 9th, 2006

Another stage on the road to adulthood…
Just about once a week I find myself apologizing to my mother for the obnoxious acts I performed while growing up. Today’s apology was issued when my mom reminded me about a fit I threw at the ripe age of 19. My parents had invited me to [...]

My Coffee Ritual

Saturday, April 8th, 2006

I can’t tell you at what age I had my first cup of coffee, but I can tell you that I was young. My parents have always been coffee drinkers, establishing the smell of brewing coffee as something deeply linked to mornings (especially weekend ones). I could have told you how they liked [...]

Random Friday–skipping across the generations

Friday, April 7th, 2006

It’s Friday and I’m still not entirely sure what happened to Monday. One of the happy things that Friday brings with it is the chance to post a Random Friday Ten. You know the rules, but for the sake of clarity, here they are. Set your pod or other, admittedly inferior, digital [...]

What are the choices?

Thursday, April 6th, 2006

I’m feeling neither creative or particularly interesting these days. I’ve been going through a period where I’ve needed a lot of sleep, and haven’t wanted to do much. A friend asked me recently if I thought I was depressed, and I thought about it for a minute before I responded that I’m neither [...]

Pain in the head

Wednesday, April 5th, 2006

A large, invisible hand is currently locked down on the right side of my skull. Light hurts my eyes, and the movie my roommate is watching is causing my head to implode over and over again. The only immediate future I can envision right now involves a dark room, several more ibuprofen and [...]

Gone four years

Tuesday, April 4th, 2006

Four years ago today my grandmother died. She had spent the better part of two weeks in the hospital, but the end came more suddenly than I was prepared for. Looking back on it, I should have been ready for her to slip away that morning, but I wasn’t. No family members [...]

Papaya and Prunes

Monday, April 3rd, 2006

I walked up to the counter at Sue’s Produce Sunday afternoon and managed to catch the tail end of a conversation that caught my attention. A young woman with a vaguely British accent was explaining the virtues of the fruit she was buying to the woman behind her in line. She explained that [...]

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