From what I gather, Dead Man’s Bones started as a fun and gimmicky experiment in self-indulgence for Ryan Gosling and the guy who dated Rachel McAdam’s little sister. What came out is the best album I’ve heard in a really long time; I’ve been transporting the skinny cardboard sleeve in my purse so I can […]
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into the liquids
My boss is the president of a nonprofit organization and her husband is a long-haired guitar playing professor of business. They have two beautiful daughters and live in a gorgeous yellow house in the Highlands with exposed brick walls and a 2nd story deck that he built. There are musical instruments lying around everywhere and […]
Read more...why it says DUFFER on my sweatshirt
I’m going to arrive at AmeriCorps PSO training a fucking walking biohazard. In Louisville, I biffed it hard in the parking lot outside the airport terminal and scraped a few layers of dermis onto the curb. I hobbled in, blood staining a little circle through my pants on my left knee, right next to the […]
Read more...this is not Nam
I think it’s the water. Or, not the water exactly, but the tube that pipes the water into the industrial coffee maker we have in the kitchen at work. Possibly it’s the Maxwell, but I’d like to give the company more credit than that. Either way, whatever the cause, the women who drink the office […]
Read more...I wouldn’t know
They tell me San Diego is gorgeous, and I’ll have to take their word for it, because on my recent work conference I only saw glimpses of America’s Finest City. I was there for the 2009 IACUC Conference and I tried really hard to keep my head down and network as little as possible. I […]
Read more...why isn’t facebook in the blogspot dictionary?
I went back to work on Tuesday, the swelling having (mostly) given way to a bright greenish-yellow bruise just over my left jaw bone and extending a bit onto my neck. I’ve never seen a bruise quite this color before—like some kind of exotic fungus—and to have it on my face was doubly enjoyable. There […]
Read more...aaand we’re back
Sorry for the lapse, everybody. December was a crazy month. Just as I was settling back into life post-jury duty, I was stricken with what might have been the flu or TB, possibly bronchitis, perhaps the worst cold of my life, maybe even all four. I’m still hacking up pieces of lung every now and […]
Read more...laurapalooza and the IBJ
December 13th marked the 25th annual celebration of “Laurapalooza.” I work with two Lauras, and one of them—whom, for clarity’s sake, we usually refer to as “LZ“— hates having her birthday so close to Christmas, so she makes up for it by throwing a ginormous party every year. Her brother has a swanky downtown loft […]
Read more...fitness orb
Last night I bought an exercise ball to sit on at work, in lieu of a chair, just like Dwight. Thankfully for all my coworkers, there are dividers between our cubes, so I’m only knocking over my own shit. Thoughts so far: Pros, I can definitely feel something happening core-wise, and bouncing gives me a […]
Read more...focus factor schadenfreude
You know those stories about old folks who, in a torrent of 3am bad judgment, order all manner of useless shit from infomercials? My coworker Laura also suffers from this disorder. Last night, Laura was feeling tired and unfocused and saw a commercial for a product called Focus Factor. They have a deal where you […]
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