Trading Spaces

I am attempting to move this blog to Dream Host and do a little remodeling at the same time. I’m generally pretty tech-savvy, but I’ve discovered that I am a total klutz when it comes to words like MySQL and CSS and SEO. Hopefully very soon you will be able to reach this blog by [...]

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Close Encounters

I got a racist email this weekend.

I’m blogging about this with some trepidation—I haven’t asked the sender’s permission to reprint any of her comments here, and I’m not comfortable going into very much detail. But the incident is really bothering me, and I can’t seem to let go of it, which is why I’m handing [...]

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Whoomp! There it is.

When I told my friend John that I might have whooping cough, he listed all the things whooping cough reminded him of. “Reminds me of whooping cranes. And Whoppers, both the Burger King hamburgers and the chalky malt balls. And the 1993 Tag Team classic, ‘Whoomp! There It Is.’ All right, I’ll stop.”
My diagnosis is [...]

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A Few Housekeeping Notes

I thought I’d (re)start my blog with a list of things I’ve done since I last posted, but honestly, it’s not all that interesting. My life is generally busy but not terribly exciting: I still run a lot, I did a major bike event earlier in the summer, I traveled for work to places like [...]

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Wait, what? I have a blog?

Yeah, so, it’s been awhile. What if I commit to blogging one day a week? Will you come back to visit?
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current book: The Great Lakes Water Wars by Peter Annin, though it’s pretty slow going. It’s a somewhat dense book in terms of facts, and somewhat thin in terms of narrative.
current music: Heard [...]

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Birthday Portrait

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Health care at its finest

For months, my primary care physician has been nagging me to get an appointment with a urologist. I’ve had three kidney stones, and even though I haven’t had one in four years—four years!—she tells me I have to have a urologist in Chicago. They’re hard to get into, she says. You have to have one [...]

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Texas Roots

On the 22 Clark bus on my way home. Talking to my mom.
Me: Oh! Ohohoh! I just saw a coyote in the cemetery!
Mom: Your Uncle Tom caught one a couple days ago.
Me: I don’t think I want to hear about this.
Mom: He had a trap set up.
Me: I don’t think I want to hear about [...]

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Eeyore

It is 8F with a wind chill of -11F. The forecast calls for highs in the teens until Thursday, when it will climb to a whopping 26 degrees. And then it will snow. Again.
These are the forecasts that make me hate my life and swear I’ll never live another winter here. I’ve lived in cold [...]

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Pretty Much Sums Up My Day

As I was getting ready to get into the shower this evening, I opened up my medicine cabinet and something fell out. I bent over to pick it up, burning my bare ass on the radiator behind me, and then ramming the back of my head into the door of the medicine cabinet when I [...]

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