Monthly Archives: January 2010

In Which I Expose Myself to Ridicule..Not Unlike Every Entry on This Blog.

HEY. Guess who has two thumbs and has more time to edit photos she took, oh…FOUR MONTHS AGO? THIS KID.
Here’s the thing. I am not a professional photographer. I was not paid to take pictures of the Monolith Music Festival. I simply had the badge that said I could.
Said badge also got me into the [...]

Relax, Dad. I spent two dollars.

This evening, I had dinner with my dad at On The Border, because Randy LOVES HIM A CHAIN RESTAURANT. This was our first face-to-face since my frog-throated, “Hey, Dad? I kind of don’t have a job anymore” phone call. Like most only children, I have this crippling fear of letting my parents down. I had [...]

So damn foolish.

“Do you think it’s too late for me to learn the french horn?” I texted my friend Jordan, recently.
[I was getting that old familiar feeling of listlessness,  which never fails to cultivate this desire to throw myself headfirst into something completely new, and challenging, and random. Mostly random. When I was seven, I felt destined [...]

Day One. Or: How Barbra Streisand Got Me Through My First Day of Unemployment.

When New Year’s came around and you asked me about resolutions, I told you I had none. That was a lie. I had one, known only to myself, whispered when the clock struck midnight: I’m going to leave my job by the end of 2010.
I did not expect it to happen in the middle of [...]