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Things I Forgot Before Leaving for Atlanta: Go to the ATM. So thank you, Harris Bank for your many, many airport machines. You are welcome to my $1.50 as my own bank has neglected me. Henceforth, this $1.50 shall be known as the Dumbass… Continue Reading “One More of These Posts and I Shall Have to Create a Tag”
So I am procrastinating. While I debate whether to take the laptop with me. I forgot the other lame thing I did this weekend: I went through all the back pages of my going-green-page-a-day calendar. The Book a Day one was soooo much better. … Continue Reading “Don’t Feel Like Packing”
On Saturday, I cleaned out my closet. To this, my snarky mother said, “All of them?” No. The main clothes closet. This was the donated pile: That white shirt on the top was purchased from the Gap my freshman year of high school. How was… Continue Reading “What I Accomplished This Weekend”
Weekend Assignment #334: What Are You Looking Forward To?We are about to begin the last quarter of 2010, tell me what you are looking forward to. Will it be the coming holiday season? The cooler days of autumn? The kids going back to school?… Continue Reading “Joys of the Season”
This morning, my friend Maile was posting on Facebook about being grateful. Then, the Trib linked to this blog on Chicago Now that has the same daily theme. The author, Jennifer Fernicola Ronay, just wrote about 8 Reasons to Look Forward to Fall. I agree… Continue Reading “Being Thankful”
http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=leartojugg-20&o=1&p=8&l=bpl&asins=0719564565&fc1=000000&IS2=1<1=_blank&m=amazon&lc1=0000FF&bc1=000000&bg1=FFFFFF&f=ifrBook 37 That article the other day used a term I’d never heard before. “Lit-lit.” “…lit-lit novels name-drop dead authors obsessively and are built around an epiphany in which one or another character recognizes the transformative power of literature” Mr. Pip, by Lloyd Jones,… Continue Reading “Mr. Pip, by Lloyd Jones”
http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=leartojugg-20&o=1&p=8&l=bpl&asins=B003BKF696&fc1=000000&IS2=1<1=_blank&m=amazon&lc1=0000FF&bc1=000000&bg1=FFFFFF&f=ifrI noticed something. Back in the day, before Out of Time and definitely before Green, the only radio station in Chicago that played R.E.M. was WXRT – 93.1. It seems that we have come full circle, because it is pretty much the only station… Continue Reading “Something about Music”
Last night while Alex was at football practice, my brother was at the park with his daughters, age 21 months and 4 months. He fell and badly sprained his ankle. So badly that that after hobbling over to sit down on a bench, he… Continue Reading “Good Citizens”
Sigmund the Foster Bird is looking scraggly, as he picked a bunch of feathers again. But he can share a tree with Kiwi for 15 minutes at a stretch. And, he deigned to walk across the room so I would pick him up and pay… Continue Reading “Sigmund Update”
http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=leartojugg-20&o=1&p=8&l=bpl&asins=B0019N8P2W&fc1=000000&IS2=1<1=_blank&m=amazon&lc1=0000FF&bc1=000000&bg1=FFFFFF&f=ifrDaria was an MTV cartoon – a spin off of Beavis and Butthead, if you can believe it. I’ve waited for-about-ever for the series to be released on DVD. The problem was in getting the rights to all of the music on the show. … Continue Reading “Daria, The Complete Series”
The Next Dark Age 