Errands kill me. I go to the store to get milk, I swing by the insurance place to pay the renter’s insurance, and suddenly it’s lunchtime. Where did the morning go? Why have the things I needed to paint not been painted? How do people who can’t just wander off in mid-work day to run […]
Monthly Archives: November 2003
Still busy, but finally kicking the mountain of work down…I hope… So I doodled a few random sketches.
I woke up this morning anticipating a repeat of yesterday–a drugged haze of agony from which neither work nor coherency can derive. Instead my jaw didn’t hurt at all. Nothin’. A mild twinge, now and again, no more–certainly not the sweet-jesus-this-is-the-worst-pain-I’ve-ever-felt pain of yesterday. So now I am left with only one possible explanation. Yes, […]
I woke up this morning with a toothache that felt like a mule had stepped on my jaw. Now, I haven’t been to the dentist in a coupla years, lacking dental insurance, so I know there are cavities lurking, but I do brush regularly and even floss now and again, so I didn’t think it […]
Someone pointed out an interesting phenomenon on the Digger forums awhile back, and it still gives me a chuckle whenever I see it. The Google ads that run across the top of the page, while fairly unobtrusive, are “smart” ads. They are attempting to offer a product that the keywords on the page indicate people […]
Innnnteresting. Watching this show on sex in ancient Egypt–it was that or “Fresh Prince of Bel-Air,” and believe me, there’s no contest–where the speaker claims that, as far as they can determine, there was no concept of virginity in ancient Egypt.
Ain’t nature grand? Even birds. And I don’t even like birds. (There is nothing wrong with birds, I hasten to add, O many bird lovers, but I have never felt the empathy with them that I do mammals. I am simultaneously slightly scared of the power of those beaks, and mortally terrified that if I […]
Okay, this wasn’t exactly porn, but it made me wince. “New, super Viagra, stays active for up to 24 hours!” Sweet Jesus. I’m female, so I can’t pretend to fully appreciate the nuances, but a 24 hour erection sounds massively unpleasant to me. (James backs me up on this one.) How would you use the […]
The weather has become almost shamefully glorious. After weeks and weeks of heat, highs near a hundred, long past what was normal (claimed the weather gurus–couldn’t prove it by us)it’s as if Nature suddenly got ahold of a calender and said “What? November? Shit! Sorry ’bout that…” and more or less overnight, the temperature plummeted […]
We need words for the following experiences, which I really would like to think are universal (or at least not unique to me.) 1. The mild chagrin when you realize that the thing scratching your throat is the tag on your shirt, because you’ve been wearing it backwards for several hours. 1A. The somewhat stronger […]