When you’ve decided to stop talking to someone there are a number of things that can be unpleasant. When they find out that you’re avoiding them, that’s generally unpleasant. Or if they see you out and about, clearly not dead as they had suspected. Also when they talk to others who have spoken with you… Continue reading

“I think,” he said, stumbling over the words as he went, “that we need… to. Well. We need to scale back our relationship.” I looked at him askance. You see, I’d already done this to him four times. Most notably the fourth time where I said I was done and then we stopped talking to… Continue reading

I will work this evening. I went out for a very small non-work excursion and now I will work. I will also finish my budget. I might, perhaps, go for a walk on the treadmill. I will start a load of laundry and I will remember to take my grocery bags to the car so… Continue reading

In the past week, which is about as long as it’s been since I’ve written, we’ve had a tanker carrying hydrochloric acid wreck in front of my apartment. It has snowed. I’ve gotten and gotten rid of some yucky illness. I’ve gone to and returned from my parents’ place for Thanksgiving. I’ve committed to and… Continue reading

I’m making shortbread cookies for the office party today and when I told JJ about this he said the following: “You’re going to take sweets to an office full of people who are always ungrateful. You’re going to be mad when they are ungrateful. Just bring them to me.” To which I said: “You’ve been… Continue reading

My weird downstairs neighbor has moved the stereo beneath my closet. There is a pipe in that closet that seems to be sympathetic to all strange music. The resulting situation is something that sounds like far-off singing which proves to be quite confusing when you’re sitting there by yourself. Or when you’re there with others.… Continue reading

I attended an early Thanksgiving this past Saturday and loved it. It was a small group of about half engineers and half non-engineers. There are, I’m sure, better ways to categorize these people, but seeing as how so many were indeed engineers it seemed to makes sense to call the rest of us non-engineers. We… Continue reading

I have received a book recommendation. Nine Kinds of Naked. Sounds risque, right? I’ll have to add it to the pile of books on my nightstand which is currently five deep. Not to mention the books that haven’t even made it to the nightstand yet. How will I ever manage? I had a good bit… Continue reading

I had a two hour dentist appointment yesterday. I got there at 10 and told my supervisor I’d be in no later than 11. I couldn’t imagine it would take longer than that, I’ve never had a regular dental appointment take longer than thirty minutes. This was no ordinary dental appointment, though. This was the… Continue reading