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Rhymes with citrus Hot damn does an orange taste good when one’s throat has that pre-cold scratchiness. Flew to So. Cal during each of the previous two weekends, which seems to have taxed my immune system, even though I took Airborne. Probably should have taken more. Have had several marginally blog-worthy thoughts during past fewContinue reading

Donde esta la sirena? I used to have these great drinking glasses. I may well have blogged about them before. They had Mexican tarot cards on them: La Sirena, La Luna, La Rosa, El Diablo, El Mano, El Corazon… I systematically broke one every time I moved and a couple of times in between. IContinue reading

Just a girl Does anyone else wonder how Gwen Stefani is keeping her hair platinum during her pregnancy? I thought you weren’t supposed to dye your hair. Maybe straight peroxide is safe. Does anyone else think Michelle Rodriguez is a jerk for choosing jail time over 240 hours of community service for her drunk drivingContinue reading

Honeydew melon: the filler fruit Will someone tell me why it’s easier to spend $12.50 a week on fruit cups than it is to buy a whole cantelope or pineapple and slice it? A few weeks ago, I decided to eat better and have more fresh food at home. Two days ago I threw outContinue reading

How do you measure the last Night of the Iguana? In daylight, in darkness, in zucchini and calcium shots… A couple of weeks went by after I got the condolence card from the vet. I thought maybe they won’t even charge me! But I got the bill yesterday. $215. $85 for the office visit, variousContinue reading

Jolly fun? A British judge put a secret code in his ruling on the Da Vinci Code lawsuit. Bizarre, right? Doesn’t that make the plaintiffs feel like, I dunno, he didn’t take their case very seriously?

Will power like you’ve never seen I made a conscious decision not to eat the leftover chocolate cupcakes with white frosting in the conference room. I had one yesterday; they couldn’t possibly taste better today. I congratulated myself while walking in the rain to my 3 p.m. meeting, thinking I would blog about how strongContinue reading

Something so random As I was reading various Harvard Crimson and New York Times stories to find one to link to, regarding the young novelist who “internalized” another young-adult novelist’s phrasology, I wondered, “Has everything orginal been done? Is it impossible to write a teen novel without recycling passages?” But reading further, I think theContinue reading

I’m already torn Last weekend, when I was trying to cure Emerald, I discovered an iguana adoption website. On Tuesday, after he died, I found myself on the site again, feeling guilty, but thinking it would ease the pain if I had another iguana to care for. Just looking at pictures of other people’s iguanasContinue reading

S’what I’m talking about! “It should be observed that the Internet has become the modern equivalent of a telephone or a daily newspaper, providing a combination of communication and information that most employees use as frequently in their personal lives as for their work,” wrote Judge John Spooner. “For this reason, city agencies permit workersContinue reading