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Archive for December 2000

not Martha

I am just hours away from not being at work anymore. 11 days off, including weekends. I counted. In fact, I made up a little song about it: 11 days off doo doo doo, 11 days off (in a row!), 11 days off…But then again, I have a tendency to make up a little song […]

the things I say. sad but true.

Watch me rip off of Pamie here. At least I linked her and acknowledged the source, right? But I really like this entry, where she details the words and phrases that she says entirely too often. I too am occasionally guilty of the one-track vocabulary, and although you may have picked up some of my […]

I fought the law

Just in time for the holidays, I have stigmata! Sort of. I have a weird dry skin patch, quarter-sized, on my left wrist, in approximately the place they (they?) would put some nails were I to be crucified. OK fine, it's not bleeding, and I didn't have any visions, and it's only on one wrist, […]

the pause that refreshes

I got about 90% of my Xmas shopping done yesterday: aren't you proud? I think I was overestimating the enormity of the task. I spent about an hour each at Borders and Marshall Fields and decided that I had accomplished quite enough for one day. Monday I'm taking a half day to finish shopping at […]

our teeming oceans

I have become very interested in the sea cucumber. The sea cucumber is a very interesting animal. When you bother or annoy the sea cucumber, it regurgitates all of its internal organs and sort of throws them at you. This would be a very useful ability to have. Blah! You suck! I throw my intestines […]

put another dime in the jukebox, baby

This will be a bit of a mishmash, bear with me.I won't bore you with the weather. Oh wait yes I will! Chicago has had a gigantic blizzard. Monday it snowed all day long with a combined accumulation of something like 230 feet. Or maybe it was 14 inches. Anyway, that was Monday, a day […]

I assume they're little, and probably furry

Often I think I would be more comfortable if people who know me In Real Life wouldn't read this thing. But then I tell myself that's stupid. Mimi, I tell myself, that's stupid. If you really wanted your pathetic little typings to be private, you wouldn't put them on a big-ass public forum like the […]

in which I am all about convenience

I went past the 3 Penny Cinema on Lincoln Avenue on my way to Delilah's the other night, and they had arranged the 3 movies listed on their marquee like this:UnbreakableMen of HonorBounceWell, yes, that makes a lot of sense.I'm going to go take a yoga class during my lunch hour, so even though it's […]