Nugget
Growing up
I had a thought. It’s not much, and I don’t even know why I’m feeling it acutely these days, but here it is. It bothers me when people use their singleness as an excuse for continued adolescence. I don’t want to use my singleness as an excuse for continued adolescence. That’s all.
Truly?
I never thought I’d see the day, but sure enough. Like the Terminator, like Backstreet… Scrunchies are back.
A recent IM conversation I had at work
Me: “Don’t you want to roll your eyes at people who don’t know the difference between stationary and stationery?” Him: “It’s an easy mistake – the only way I remember it is that e goes with envelope.” Me: “I remember it because e goes with letter… which, now that I think about it, is a…
Forever nerd
Emma is a very cool place with very cool people. But on Sunday, PZC asked me, “So, now that you work at Emma, are you going to be one of the effortlessly hip?” “Um… no, probably not.” “I know,” he replied.
Julie made a great joke
Me: How can they tell how old an eagle is? Her: They measure its crow’s feet!
I THOUGHT I smelled rodent…
I share a front stoop with my next-door neighbor. As I approached my front door today after running errands, she and 2 men were hauling in a gigantic plywood-and-wire cage, approximately 6’x4’x3′. Me: “What is that?” Her: “This is a cage for my flying squirrel.” Ladies and gentlemen, without even trying, I have found the…