Brian and I watched The Shining last night, after a dinner of pasta with turkey-basil meatballs and vodka marinara from Trader Joe’s. Mmmmm dinner. Anyway, I hadn’t seen the film in its entirety in several years, but since childhood it has been branded in me as “scary.” However, as time has passed, I have developed […]
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underwhelmed
Posted in Uncategorized on February 13, 2003 | 14 Comments »
le mot du jour
Posted in Uncategorized on February 12, 2003 | 3 Comments »
entropy n 1 : a measure of the unavailable energy in a closed thermodynamic system that is also usually considered to be a measure of the system’s disorder and that is a property of the system’s state and is related to it in such a manner that a reversible change in heat in the system […]
hang the DJ
Posted in Uncategorized on February 12, 2003 | 4 Comments »
I refuse to go into Full Panic Mode, as prescribed by our illegal government. I simply refuse. You know, Bowling For Columbine was right: The thing that sets us apart from other nations and what makes us so violent and out of control is our willingness to submit to panic and fear at the slightest […]
le mot du jour
Posted in Uncategorized on February 11, 2003 | 6 Comments »
In that vein, I am going to try to have a word of the day thing in my blog — one that I look up myself in my big, heavy, fragrant dictionary. Today’s Word: panoply n 1 : A full suit of armor. 2 : something forming a protective covering.
list
Posted in Uncategorized on February 11, 2003 | 3 Comments »
Here are some of the books which currently reside on my desk: The Copyeditor’s Handbook The Chicago Manual of Style (14th Ed.) The Associated Press Style Manual and Briefing on Media Law The Loom of Language Modern American Usage Roget’s A-Z Thesaurus (Hardbound) Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary (Hardbound) So check your spelling and grammar on those […]
mundy
Posted in Uncategorized on February 10, 2003 | 5 Comments »
I am fairly certain that I saw Mark Kozelek at the AMC 1000 theatre on Friday night. We had just exited the screening of Shanghai Knights (funny!) and were headed down the escalator to the ground floor. He was standing at the bottom of another escalator, waiting for someone. I looked at him and stared […]
lemons
Posted in Uncategorized on February 8, 2003 | Comments Off on lemons
It’s a sunny, cool weekend. I’ve spent the whole thing with Brian, and we aren’t the least bit overexposed to one another. YAAY. This morning we took a walk to Dolores Park, sat in the grass watching the doggies, went to the French boulangerie and got pastries. Then we visited the gardening/taxidermy store and the […]
thank dog
Posted in Uncategorized on February 7, 2003 | 7 Comments »
I like Fridays. Especially around, say, 5pm. Last night I had a dream I was in my apartment and the power was out. So I was walking around in the darkness. I thought I was alone but then I smelled smoke and saw that a candle in the hallway had just been lit. So I […]
it’s a crime
Posted in Uncategorized on February 6, 2003 | 4 Comments »
Can’t … stop … eating … m&m trail mix … Here is my daily pet peeve: People at the cafeteria (or any other take-out food lunch place, for that matter) who robotically grab a giant handful of napkins for themselves on their way out. Like, six huge napkins. It’s not like you just got barbecued […]
back to school
Posted in Uncategorized on February 6, 2003 | 3 Comments »
Last night I started my class — the second of three courses in the editing certification program. Before class I was kind of nervous, but I ended up really liking my teacher, in fact better than the teacher last semester. She is more laid-back in her grading style, but more strict in attention to actual […]