Wacko

I’m losin’ it. I’ve been feeling crazy – you know, not quite in the same reality as anyone else – since some time last week. For starters, I seem to have completely lost my ability to sleep in any reasonable time frame. 3 am – noon or so has been my habit of late. And [...]

Best cartoon ever

Commentary on Windows Vista.

Oh, and Happy Blog for Choice Day.

I am pro-Choice because people’s health care choices are their own, because the world is ridiculously full of people, and because I’m sick of the legislation of personal moral and ethical issues. There are many appropriate places for these discussions and decisions – churches, families, hospitals – but the political arena is not one of [...]

On shame

According to Princeton’s web dictionary shame is:
a painful emotion resulting from an awareness of inadequacy or guilt
Oh boy, doesn’t that sound unpleasant. Sometimes it feels like everything I do is born of shame. I’m ashamed of my body. I’m ashamed of my tastes. I’m ashamed of my performance in school, at work, as a [...]

Don’t give yourself away

Joni Mitchell makes me think of my mother. I don’t exactly remember her listening to much Joni Mitchell – it was usually Joan Baez when my mom controlled the turn-table – but the picture I have in my head fits so perfectly with Joni. She thought of herself as a poet.
I’ve had a lot of [...]

stereotypical

I’m stressed out and bored and so I’ve sunk into the comfort of culturally defined feel better quick methods: hot chocolate, nail polish, and Friends. The only problem with this is that when I paint my own nails I only ever do my left hand.
I’ve been at home for a few days. I had a [...]

Now I know

A is for age: 21
B is for beer of choice: Bell’s Oberon
C is for career right now: Student
D is for your dog’s name: No dog.
E is for essential item you use everyday: Spectacles
F is for favorite TV show at the moment: Grey’s Anatomy
G is for favorite game: Cribbage
H is for Home town: Minneapolis, MN
I is [...]

a million things

It is so dreary that even at 3 in the afternoon it feels like the early morning. There are a million things that I have been meaning to write about and now I remember absolutely none of them.
I’m feeling all dark and twisty this week. I’ll blame the humdrum that sets in post-holidays. And too [...]

radio

I’ve been trying to remember since I got to work at 9 what it was I thought about blogging last night. It only just now hit me.
I think I mentioned a while ago that I was interviewed for a radio show about experiencing grief and loss during the holidays. We had what ended up being [...]

A Life of Prayer

I’m always rolling around the idea of going to seminary. I flip back and forth between thinking that nothing would suit me better (studies in history, ancient languages, religions, politics, psychology, sociology) and thinking that I am not suited for that kind of study. Part of my reluctance to consider this move as a real [...]