This is my first year coaching, and I've taken the girls vball team under my wings. And I love it. Lovelovelove it. Ten Reasons Why 10. I love teaching, but sometimes, I don't think I'm so great at teaching. I... Continue Reading →
"oh, a BOX!!! Just what I've always wanted!" "If you don't like it, or if it doesn't fit, you can take it back. I don't mind." "Is that it? Are there NO more PRESENTS for MEEEE???" During any Christmas, birthday,... Continue Reading →
Normally around this time of year, I settle down with a nice glass of wine, a fragile ego, and a large dose of sarcasm to write something somewhat bitter about being single for Valentines Day. Insert comments about the commercialism,... Continue Reading →
I got up after hitting the snooze button on my cell phone. find slippers shuffle shuffle groan flip on heater. bathroom. I was surprised that I had the bathroom to myself. This was because I normally pee while M is... Continue Reading →
If you're an American, you are watching television today. Either the Superbowl, or the Puppy bowl, you're on the tube. You have chips and salsa, beer, an office pool going, the location of the remote control is of utmost importance,... Continue Reading →
Five days of Spirit Week, 120 screaming junior higher, 30 girls at vball tryouts, 11 making the team, a dozen rounds of Theraflu, and seventy billion cups of tea and cough drops later, my battle with influenza or malaria or... Continue Reading →
I've been exploring the facets and funnies of facebook lately. check out yesterday's post that has the first part of this list of different kinds of status updaters you might find on your friend list... the lush updater - punctuated... Continue Reading →
When Facebook first started, when I was like a sophomore in college or something, it was very basic. You had a profile with one picture, a few lines about yourself, where you went to school, your piles of friends, and... Continue Reading →
The year was 2004, the spring. I was a tree-hugging, protesting, politicized, hippie sophomore taking International Politics at UCSB. I remember when he walked in the door. He was wearing a tan coat, rocking a jewfro and four day stubble.... Continue Reading →
I mentioned in the previous post the cathartic experience of defriending people who, in retrospect, didn't know me well enough to realize I didn't want to partake in their online farming and fishing fantasy world, so we weren't really friends... Continue Reading →
Yesterday I posted a status update about deleting two "friends" because they kept hitting me with a barrage of invites to various things I don't have the time to be interested in. Farmville, Roller Coaster land, pages that shamelessly plug... Continue Reading →
I have had my share of Girls Nights Out. I have probably had a share for you, too. And your mom. Maybe because I overdosed on the good life in college (and after college. and in foreign countries. tee hee.)... Continue Reading →
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