By Mary on May 24, 2010 in cheap distraction, lists, notes from the trenches | 0 Comments
1. If you stick your hand into a bag of frozen blueberries because you are too lazy to find a spoon, your bepurpled kunckles will cause people to think “something happened” (other than laziness). 2. Me: “Are you using that?” She: “No, it just won’t stop. I pressed the handle a moment ago and it’s [...]
By Mary on Apr 5, 2010 in a worthy ponder, cheap distraction, cooking, lists, notes from the trenches, reading | 1 Comment
The scene: Hannaford. Also known as “Hannafuhhd.” Or “the grocery store.” The players: A woman, 40s-ish; her teenage son; an Unrelated Observer. All are in line (also known as “on line”) at the checkout. Son: Hey, we forgot something. Be right back. [Son dashes away and returns moments later with a box of granulated sugar.] [...]
By Mary on Mar 9, 2010 in cheap distraction, lists, notes from the trenches, report from the field | 0 Comments
1. Today I missed New York, specifically the feature that allows you to enter a zen-like trance by walking 30+ blocks to a distant subway stop before heading home. Driving past a series of exits on 295-South is not the same. 1a. I promptly forgot about the city when I got back to Portland and [...]
By Mary on Sep 15, 2009 in cheap distraction, killer trees?!, lists, politricks, report from the field, tips, ugh | 4 Comments
Man oh man, what a month. Sickness, death and packing tape, and — most recently — a fateful combination of bike + steep hill + pothole + blue Toyota + concrete + my face. Settle down, I typed ‘fateful’ not ‘fatal,’ and the ER doc gave me a handy list of brain damage symptoms to [...]
By Mary on Aug 20, 2009 in cheap distraction, internet | 0 Comments
By Mary on Aug 12, 2009 in a worthy ponder, cheap distraction, lists | 7 Comments
Zach Braff I have an intense, visceral aversion to this man. Perhaps it is his contrivedly-impish facial expressions, or his over-gelled faux-floppy hair, or the accumulation of consonants at the ends of his names. Perhaps it is the fact that he made it impossible for me to listen to that Shins record after it had [...]
By Mary on Jul 3, 2009 in a worthy ponder, approved, cheap distraction, lists, the meaning of christmas | 0 Comments
…identify ‘em all and I’ll buy you a hot dog and a box of sparklers.
By Mary on Jun 22, 2009 in cheap distraction | 0 Comments
Via the Organic Trade Association.
By Mary on Jun 21, 2009 in approved, cheap distraction, music, the meaning of christmas | 0 Comments
Well well, remember the second tag on this post? Yeah, looks like someone I work with was on that concept months ago. (Click the link and scroll down to resolution #7.) And no, I hadn’t noticed that post before, but it’s pretty clearly a sign from the universe. ps. Mary, did you wake up this [...]
By Mary on Jun 19, 2009 in a worthy ponder, cheap distraction, notes from the trenches, politricks, ugh | 3 Comments
Obviously — obviously — I saw and bookmarked the WaPo “where is he now” story on John Edwards. And obviously (obviously!) I made mental note of the money quote: Yet as he spends his days in his family’s mansion on the outskirts of Chapel Hill, N.C., Edwards can’t help but fret about how Washington and [...]