Senseless

Internet, a friend in Tucson needs your positive vibes. I’m not very religious, but I respectfully request your prayers if you were one who was inclined to pray.
A passionate young kid who was supposed to start in the Anth PhD program this Fall was attacked on the streets of Tucson a few nights ago. [...]

Cosmic balance

A little gets sucked out, a little bit gets blown back in. On the heels of my weepy blog, wherein I had decided to go buy a donut, I got the following e-mail pertaining to pictures I took over a year ago of Canadian donuts.
:: Your Timbits photo
Hi riddlebiddle,
I’m working on getting photos for a [...]

This just in

As I type this, I’m thinking about some of the blogs I read regularly whose author was waiting on some really heavy news to come in. And then the post came in and it was just as devastating as they’d expected…yes, it’s cancer, or my father died, or dear God no, the baby was stillborn.
And [...]

A-Twitter

Folks, I just snuck away from my pity party to send a quick message. It’s pretty rowdy in there, and I’m sure someone’ll miss me if I stay gone too long, so I’ll make this one brief.
I finally caved and joined Twitter. Caved to the pressure of, you know, strangers. Other bloggers I’ve never [...]

Pandora

Okay, I am officially ripping off Janina’s confusingly-titled blog post.
If you haven’t already checked out Pandora.com, get thee there soon. It’s my new favorite site.
Essentially, you type in the name of an artist or band you’re diggin’ on, and the site generates a random list of new, mostly independent artists of a similar style, or [...]

Can I just say?

I have a deep, profound love for the use of the exclamation point among service personnel. I often get annoyed if it’s used too frequently by people I think are trying to manipulate me…or frankly, myself, when I’ve had too much caffeine. But when it is used strategically, the exclamation point is a remarkable thing.
Take, [...]

This is fun

I’d forgotten what an ego booster online dating is. Well, for a while anyway. Until I get interested in someone and they flitter away. Like they do.
But anyway I’m taking Zoe’s advice and going on as many unpromising dates as I can stand. I do this for two reasons: a) to harden me to [...]

Oh, how I’ve missed you

It’s funny how completely out of place I feel back in the place I spent fourteen years of my life. I have never felt quite so foreign as a former Southerner, who is adapating to the Southwest, who is back in the South, and who’s realizing she’s not really a typical Southerner at all. Really, [...]

Sorry, approval people

Oh, those poor people at Match.com. Every time I think of something new I want to tweak or change on my profile, I immediately rush in and edit it. Then I resubmit it for approval at the rate of about twenty times a day. In my mind’s eye, there is one frustrated Match.com employee on [...]

Re-entering the fray

Okay, people, I feel like I am the only one left. All my college friends are married with children, and now – seemingly – nearly all my single friends are on Match.com.
So, okay, fine. Maybe I’m ready to wade back out there. The only problem is I have nothing left to say about myself. Here’s [...]