~Friday~ As I watched Manbites Dog Theater’s current show—Seventy Scenes of Halloween, which is being remounted 25 years after its first run as the theater’s first show in 1987—I was thinking, “This is the kind of theater that Manbites has built its reputation on.” I tried to imagine just “coming across” this theater company and … Read more
~Friday~ October's Challenge Entry | All Challenge Entries | December's Challenge Entry And so we come to the end of the penultimate month of the year, and I am happy to report that it’s been another month of meeting my commitment toward walking every day of 2012 for at least 30 minutes. Walking I … Read more
~Friday~ On Facebook, for the month of November, I participated in the "Gratitude Marathon," which consisted of professing some form of gratitude, once a day, for each day of the entire month of November. I've captured them here for those of you who aren't on Facebook (or aren't my friend there), and for my own … Read more
~Monday~ This is an excerpt of an email I sent out to the people in the organization in which I work. If you’re looking for a worthy organization for a holiday gift, I can’t more highly recommend any one than Love Wins Ministries! Greetings friends and colleagues, I put forth Love Wins Ministries as one … Read more
~Thursday~ I was up at 6:30, with an ambitious goal of making 30 deviled eggs and three loaves of bread by 8:00, in order to leave Raleigh at 8:30. I’ve made deviled eggs many, many times now, and I’d already peeled, sliced, and de-yolked the eggs, and mixed up the filling last night, so I … Read more
~Tuesday~ Late this afternoon, I met with my financial advisor to check on my “stash” in advance of the presumably imminent, so-called “fiscal cliff.” I’ve been meeting with Nathan for over 12 years now, and although he certainly knows more about me than I know about him—If he didn’t, how could he advise me financially?—I … Read more
~Saturday~ I had a fun day today, attending the 2nd annual SpeedCon conference, SpeedCon 2012, put on by NC State’s student chapter of SIGDOC (Special Interest Group for the Design of Communication). I was a “gold” level sponsor of this conference, which means I donated $100 in cash to help put it on. I also … Read more
~Thursday~ I caught the Wolfline #9 in this morning, and on the way mentally lamented about several of the bus ad placards that were out-of-date—advertising events that had already passed. At lunch time, I got my daily walk in partially by my walk over to Schuab Hall to participate in a turkey bacon taste test, … Read more
~Tuesday~ We had Rhonda’s (my boss’s) breakfast gig this morning, and a lunch time “shower” for Garrison (a colleague) and Amy, which shower is in quotation marks because what we really had was our “Informal OCC Lunch” to which Amy was invited to join us. We did have cupcakes, provided by Jason and Erin, some … Read more
~Sunday~ This evening, I saw the movie Hope Springs at the $2 movie theater near my home. As I noted in a Facebook check-in at the theater, this made me laugh while buying my ticket: I love Meryl Streep in anything she does, and this movie was no exception. I’ve never been a big fan … Read more