Facebook and the Not So Hallowed Halls
Facebook is really making me wonder if I need to reevaluate my entire high school experience. I did not like high school. I spent as little time there as possible,…
Author: Laura
My Year of Meats
I am surely the only person in America right now whose goal is to eat more meat. Yes, you heard that right. More meat. People tend to assume that I…
Upgrades, The Black Dude, and Other Forward Thinking
I just upgraded this blog from WordPress 1.5 to the current version, which I believe is 2.3.3. Yeah, I missed a few in there. I’m also planning to play around…
The Nearest Book to My iBook
I was tagged. 1. Pick up the nearest book of 123 pages or more. No cheating! 2. Find page 123 3. Find the first 5 sentences 4. Post the next…
On Settling, and On Moving On
Update 2/20/08: I forgot to point out that, once again, this post is all the Hermits’ fault. In 2003 and 2004 I was 27 and 28 years old and living…
High School Basketball
I did not, as a rule, attend athletic events when I was in high school. I went to the cross-town rivals football game my sophomore year, but since I got…
High as the Listening Skies, Loud as the Rolling Sea
People often ask me how I hack it in Wyoming. Don’t I miss, well, culture? There are all sorts of things wrong with that question, not the least of which…
What We Think About When We Think About Mental Illness
There was a piece in The Nation a little while back that began, “Like most people, I know too much about celebrities. Take Paris Hilton, for example.” [Geeky librarian note:…
New Year’s Projects
I do not make New Year’s resolutions as a general rule, but I do often have sort of new year projects. Some of those start in September, since, as everyone…
In Which I Am Lured In
Yesterday I bought a pair of exercise pants. They were $31.45, including tax, from the discount store. Those of you who know me will know that I rarely pay so…