I made cheddar-onion-green-pepper-tomato-and-a-dollop-of-sour-cream omelets for breakfast today. Pretty tasty. I tried to work on my ENG 675 design document today from the bed, but it didn’t work out so well. My back is still killing me. Not good timing as I have a non-refundable ski trip coming up this weekend. At about 4:30, I turned … Read more
I ran over to Hillsborough Street Textbooks to get a birthday card I like there for Tanya. Unfortunately, it was out of stock. I got one that I was satisfied with, though. Early afternoon, my back started hurting, and as the day wore on, it got progressively worse. I ran over to Target at Crossroads … Read more
I just love this woman! Can’t you just feel the finger snaps in her response?!? Dear Prudie, My husband and I are expecting our first child in June. I will have at least five showers. I was wondering if it would be acceptable to ask that one of my showers be a “gift card shower” … Read more
Three things I meant to blog about yesterday, but forgot to: For Valentine’s Day, Robert made me some of his signature caramels. Love them. Love him. About three weeks ago, I lost the sync cord to my Palm Pilot. Here are the things I’ve done in the meantime to find it: Looked in my “currently-used” … Read more
Not that cold-blooded murder is ever a good thing, and that’s just what this local story ended up being about, but it was encouraging to me that even a criminally insane mind can recognize when to use “your” as opposed to “you’re.” Raleigh — A Wendell woman died after being cut Monday evening—hours before her … Read more
With all due respect to my friend Joe, who’s sister I love, and who has Down’s Syndrome… I was looking through the articles on reserve for a class I’m taking, and the title of one of the articles made me look up this word in my favorite (mega) dictionary: Quick definitions (rhetorician) noun: a person … Read more
THINGS THAT ARE DIFFICULT TO SAY WHEN DRUNK: Innovative Preliminary Proliferation Cinnamon THINGS THAT ARE VERY DIFFICULT TO SAY WHEN DRUNK: Specificity Anti-constitutionalistically Passive-aggressive disorder Transubstantiate THINGS THAT ARE DOWNRIGHT IMPOSSIBLE TO SAY WHEN DRUNK: Thanks, but I don’t want to have sex. Nope, no more booze for me. Sorry, but you’re not really my … Read more
We got up at about 9:30, and I made a breakfast of eggs and toast. We read “the morning paper,” while enjoying breakfast. The morning paper is in quotation marks, because what it really means is that we sat across from each other at the kitchen table, with back-to-back laptops reading wral.com, and the N&O … Read more
But Are You Willing to Ignore Months and Months of Reliable Intelligence? Teen: I’m gonna run for sturgeon general one day. Father: A sturgeon is a fish. It’s Surgeon General, and you can’t run for it, the president appoints you. Teen: Then I’ll make him appoint me. Father: You also have to be a doctor, … Read more
So, of course, I’ve seen the plethora of online news items about Anna Nicole Smith, in which the word pneumatic is often included, in the context of “the pneumatic blonde.” And of course I’ve heard this word before, but I tend to associate it with the word pneumonia, which doesn’t seem to be working in … Read more