Bring your minds out of the gutters, kids. I’m talking about a movie Daniel and I watched last night called Dirty Filthy Love. The IMDB one-line description explains it all: “A man’s life falls apart as a result of his affliction with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and Tourette’s Syndrome in this touching and funny tale.” I …
ARGH.
Other bloggers I know use clever nicknames for people they blog about but don’t wish to identify. And because what I’m about to say is relayed out of much frustration, I’m going to do the same. Since I know most people are blissfully unaware of what (exactly) I do all day, I won’t bore you …
Monday morning scare, revisted.
Matt picked up on my Monday morning scare post from earlier and posted his own (lengthy) commentary about the little e-documentary-flash thing. I posted a (lengthy) response. Go over there, read it, and chime in! (I know many of you have feelings on these kinds of things…)
ah, squirrels.
My father’s biggest source of entertainment may very well be (when he’s actually on the mainland) thwarting the wily squirrels trespassing on their Main Street property. One of the best gifts I’ve ever given him was a “Squirrel-Be-Gone” birdfeeder, and he’s got a growing collection of t-shirts with variations on the theme of “death to …
Monday morning scare.
Here’s an interesting / scary presentation of where the media could reasonably be in 2014. Freaky.
Idgy and the Spankers
Last night, a group of eight including Daniel and me went to Poor David’s in Dallas to see the incomparable Asylum Street Spankers, an Austin-based band that I seem to love more with every passing day. Daniel spent yesterday and a good deal of Friday building a fence with his dad, so I hadn’t necessarily …
running out the door …
I was sitting in an uncomfortable chair listening to other people talk (well, *straining* to hear other people talk, without mics, in a large room with terrible acoustics) almost nonstop from 10-4:30 today. What a great way to watch a Friday dry up before your very eyes, eh?! Daniel’s out building fences tonight, so I …
would Edison hire you?
I saw this on a random blog today — it’s a National Parks Service (Lord knows why them) site about Thomas Edison’s Mental Fitness Test, which he administered to potential employees in the early 1920s. Said Edison: “Men who have gone to college I find to be amazingly ignorant. They don’t seem to know anything.” …
job security, but not in the good way.
My boss sent me an e-mail this afternoon that began this way: “Liz, I don’t know whether to sigh or swear.” Now, she wasn’t talking about anything *I’ve* done (thank goodness), but rather a situation that has been a big ol’ nasty thorn in my ass for nearly two years now. I won’t divulge details …
quick recap.
I was amazed at how many people yesterday paused to wish me a happy birthday. You all far exceeded my expectations and for that I am *extremely* grateful. On the whole, it was a good day. I had lunch with a coworker/friend, got my german chocolate cake (YUM), and joined Daniel’s family for dinner at …