an intervention is in order. i’ve become obsessed. i think about it all the time and it’s the first thing i do when i get up in the morning and the last thing i do before i go to bed at night. plus i do it about 394,271 times throughout the evening.
i’m obsessed with finding [...]

in the newspaper business we used to have things called house ads. you’d use house ads when you didn’t want a story to dogleg or it wasn’t long enough to fill the alloted space.
the house ad was an ad for the newspaper.
i just watched a show called 20 years of Must See TV. it [...]

sister #4 just called.
“we’re leaving our house at 7 in the morning.”
“do you hate me?”
“you said that last year.”
“yeah, i was wondering if you still hate me.”
“you can only park on the grounds in a few places this year so we have to get there early to get good parking.”
“you said that last year.”
“well, you [...]

tomorrow i have to go into work and do battle, again. i need to ask questions that are going to make me uncomfortable and probably my boss too. but the not knowing is eating me up, you know? i just feel really like they hung me out to dry once they let the co-worker go. [...]

lisa was asking me how i was enjoying prague.
“i think i will be reading prague until i cack.”
“utoh, maybe i won’t get that as a gift.”
“nah, it’s ok. the first half was a little slow. the second half was much better. i just started the third half.”
from over the cell wall i hear giggling.
“you just [...]

it’s amazing how much chit chatting you can do with your co-workers when you aren’t running from one meeting to the next.
things discussed thus far:
new kids on the block
paula abdul
the suburbs
breakfast cereal
baked potatoes
potato chip eating cats
prague
budapest
ipods
digital cameras
almond m&ms
the cluetrain manifesto
john edward

the other Jodi will love this. karyn, from save karyn fame was on the local radio this morning.
she’s a total bimbo. she claims, “i’m not a bad person, i’m just frivolous.” so that’s why people should pay off her credit card debt.
plus she gets all moral when people want her to have sex with [...]

hi alan, would you believe that when i started up ruby today that damn “free falling” song by tom petty was on the radio? we still miss you like crazy. they say time heals all wounds, but some holes will just never heal completely.

can you hear that? that’s the sound of my heart thumping and the blood in my veins filling with adrenaline. whilst perusing the files using my favorite music pirating software, i found a bunch of bootleg tracks from westerberg’s guthrie theater concert on June 29th. yes, that’s the show i was at. i am so [...]

it’s after 7 p.m. and i have yet to put any pants on.
that is all.

Wednesday is the Great Minnesota Get Together. I am so excited I can hardly sleep.
That’s right, on Wednesday the Chromey clan head’s to the fair. Just typing out the words makes me wiggle in my chair. Most people not from around here are always amazed by what a big deal the fair is to [...]

The Great Minnesota Get Together is up over at backwash.

my firend kari has this really weird phobia about bedhead. i, however, am quite proud of my stupendous bedhead. i told her i was gonna start taking pictures and sharing it with the world since i have nobody to amaze and mystify here.

first off, let me state for the record that i’ve never seen an entire star wars film in my entire life. none of them. i just have no interest in any of them. i know some stuff about them, the characters and what not. i think you’d have to live in a hole not to [...]

i’m so lonesome i could die.