Urban Honking

This morning, which is Christmas Eve, I woke up thinking of more Interstellar plot points that either just don’t add up, or are annoying. Over coffee my old man and I discussed these, then went down a really horrifying wikipedia rabbit hole, trying to learn about black holes. What we discovered will shock you – […]

HOLY SHIT YOU GUYS GUESS WHAT FINALLY FUCKING HAPPENED That is correct. You heard that correctly. After SIX YEARS (intermittent) of trying and failing to bake bread, I have done it. And I don’t mean your namby-pamby bread with your store-bought activated yeast packets made possible by mass industrialization. No. I made SOURDOUGH bread. It […]

oh hello! you’ve caught me about to make toast in my new toaster oven, purchased at the hardware store and brought home to surprise my husband with. He (the husband) then spent an hour reading me the entire instruction manual out loud and yelling up the stairs at me about the preparatory cycle he was […]

well I swore I wouldn’t, but my old man–who has a nihilistic streak–talked me into going to Interstellar. I don’t like Christopher Nolan. I don’t like his movies. I don’t like the person I have decided he is based on his movies (a sociopath). I don’t like the grinding, relentless Hans Zimmer scores for his […]

This will be only the second time I have ever not traveled for Christmas, or been with family. The first time was in Santa Cruz when my boss would only give me christmas eve and christmas day off work, so I couldn’t travel, so the old man and I stayed in a yurt in Big […]

Arose late (seven) too-cold kitchen; hot coffee listened to Primus Primus is like Ween we discovered; the nineties when records were cheap Regional music more powerful than genre Claypool and Hammett prog-funk-jam-metal they toured with Jane’s Addiction signed with Interscope “this sounds good to me” “it also sounds good to me” early live album I […]

Me: “So what are you reading lately?” Him:”Well I’m reading this novel–I’m almost finished with it–but I can’t remember the title or the author.” “What’s it like?” “Well, it’s an odd book. When I first started reading it, it was so boring I didn’t know if I could finish it. It doesn’t exactly have a […]

Second to last day. It is 7:45 a.m. and I am in my office. My TAs are trickling in to finish grading the make-up finals and do the elaborate math necessary to come up with a student’s final grade in the class (one step involves multiplying a percentage of 100 by 6.66, I’ll just note). […]

Jesus Lord!

if I get a group email from my institution that I don’t understand, I will delete it and try to forget about it, even if I get the same email several times, with increasingly urgent subject lines if I have a computer, I will never clean the keyboard, even after multiple people make genuinely disturbed […]