hurricane in NOLA

my favorite US city is being torn apart. katrina, a category four hurricane, is destroying the historical, tree-lined streets of the french quarter and submerging the open-air markets in feet of water.
i just finished reading Barbara Ehrenreich’s book “Nickel and Dimed.” it is far and away the most engaging piece of nonfiction i’ve ever read. [...]

lazy day off

woke up with my man and then spent the rest of the day boring him. made him watch the oc (sorry, baby!) and mean girls. we did the crossword and the sudoku. i know, yawn fest.
it’s been quite the week. lots of work. days kind of running all together. found out i’m allergic to just [...]

twins twins twins

Here is a fun thing to do when you’re bored…
i love twins games. very relaxing. even when there are smelly, unattractive, ass-crack baring rednecks sitting in from of me.
i had very good times with friends today. baseball, theater talks, chapelle show… it was just generally a good day. my whole weekend was good, actually. spent [...]

no i don’t want no scrub

lara blog-beat me to a fun story. ask me about joe mays some time.
i remember when mark and i were together i used to get upset with him because it always seemed like he needed me most when i had something else i needed to do. i’d make plans with friends, have a paper to [...]

this just in

drm sucks. freeing my music is a top priority. luckily for me, google unearthed a solution in like 2 seconds. probably less than that actually. i could go find out exactly how much time it took… nope. not gonna. anyhow, google delivered Hymn to my door. it converts your iTunes-locked music (formats .m4p [...]

i’m so tired of being alone

and i’ve only been alone for like ten hours in the last week. unfortunately those ten hours were all at once and happened today. still alone… so abandoned… only one cure for loniless and sleeplessness. thank god hannah has eight seasons of friends on dvd. now i miss my friends.
so yesterday we ended up [...]

seattle

i’m leaving tonight. that’s sad. there’s nothing waiting for me in minneapolis.
we got to seattle at two in the morning (seattle time) on tuesday. sarah and kip picked us up at the airport. our plane, which was scheduled to leave at 9:50 pm CDT monday night, was delayed til midnight. we spent four hours kickin’ [...]

vacation!

i am fine. a little sad, yes, but that’s to be expected. i am in an awesome city with my friends who i love and i am fine.

i can’t put my finger on it

i’m in seattle. i’m slightly drunk. i’m sad. i don’t know what to do. something needs to change.

love, life, and why?

my name is caitlin and i think i’m clever.
i’m going to seattle tonight.
i went to a wedding on saturday. i fasted all day so that i could get drunk quickly.
i haven’t had to sleep alone in a long time. i like that.
i woke up this morning to the sound of my house falling down. no, [...]