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Dear Immune System

Jul

28

2008

Thanks for waiting until I was in Vegas last night to completely collapse on me. It allowed me to enjoy the vast majority of my vacation without feeling like I was going to cough up a lung. Made the drive back to L.A. this morning a little miserable, but at least I had a box ...

(Insert Your Own Joke About Tittering)

Jul

26

2008

I’ll be stopping in Vegas again tomorrow night, and staying at…The Hooters Casino Hotel. Hilarity will doubtlessly ensue.

Ow

Jul

21

2008

Went for a little ride with the Old Fart Bike Brigade: Atlanta Edition today. And when I say “a little ride”, I mean this nice 28 mile loop. I’m a little tired now. While I did manage to do better than my dad (in his defense, he’s almost 72 and I’m 27), I was slightly ...

Vacation, All I Ever Wanted 2

Jul

19

2008

Vegas was a good news, bad news situation. The bad news was that I lost $15 playing Roulette, because I never fucking remember that you have to have at least $100 to win squat at Roulette until I drop at least $10 in the frame of three minutes. The good news was that I turned ...

On The Road Again

Jul

17

2008

I’m unemployed and gas costs $4.60 a gallon, so what better time is there to take a road trip to Idaho to see my dad? Actually, I’m road-tripping for three reasons: Changeable plane tickets are expensive, even more so than the gas to get the 861 miles between here and Sun Valley. You could not ...

The Most Complicated Evil Plot I Have Yet Devised

Jul

9

2008

I think I’ve figured out how to land myself a job interview next Friday. This theory came to me as I was waiting for my Chinese food for an hour and 15 minutes. I really had to pee, but I just KNEW the guy was going to come while I was in the bathroom. Sure ...

To Keep You Entertained While I Work Another Six Day Week

Jun

16

2008

Please enjoy these photos of my father and stepmother’s tour of the “Five ‘Stans”: Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, and Tajikistan. Dad’s still figuring out how Flickr works, so his captions (which contain a fair bit of historical context for what you’re looking at) are actually posted as comments. Although some of the comments, like this ...

Vacation, All I Ever Wanted

May

26

2008

Now that Memorial Day weekend has passed, can we please, please, please agree to abandon the term “Stay-cation”? The media have grown awfully fond of this term in the last few weeks, as a way to describe people who are putting off vacation plans and staying at home because it’s so ridiculously fucking expensive to ...

In Bruges 1

Feb

11

2008

In honor of the movie that’s recently come out (which I have not yet seen, but Tim, of course, has), I wanted to remind people that I have, in fact, actually been to Bruges. I even have photographic evidence of this fact. I even have evidence that Mark was there with me, and that he ...

I Am My Father’s Daughter

Dec

20

2007

So I’m posting this from my Crackberry, waiting to board my flight that was supposed to take off at 10pm. I had decided to take the bus to the airport, since I have a lot more time than money at the moment. A cab is $35ish, the Super Shuttle is $21, and the bus was ...