Entries from October 2007
I don’t know where she gets the sassiness
The Sister Club (sans Sister #3) journeyed to the great wild lands to the north (Blaine) to attend a Pampered Chef party. Yeah. I hate these kinds of parties — all of them. I promise you, all my female friends, I will never host any kind of party like that ever.
Since The Stink had [...]
I can’t keep quiet any longer
Okay, I haven’t finished the book yet, but I gotta give some mad props to Jim Walsh for The Replacements: All Over But the Shouting.
You’re probably thinking, “oh, oh, Jodi’s giving mad props to Jim Walsh whom she loooovvvesss. Zzzzzzz.”
No. Seriously. All Over But the Shouting is really fucking good. Which is the highest praise [...]
Clearly someone has latent issues about her Catholic upbringing
WARNING: This is rated R for crassness and sacrilegiousness.
So yeah, the dream. Dude, I think I might need to seek some help. Last night I dreamt I was some sort of odd medium who had to rid a house of ghost.
How did I do this? By walking around the house sans pants with a [...]
Things that make me hot
Hearing how Guttenberg came up with the terms uppercase and lowercase in reference to letters while watching The Writing Code on PBS.
Read moreI hope it’s as good as City Pages used to be
All signs point to The Daily Mole being the new bomb diggety.
Read moreWell then that happened
So I got a raise and a promotion.
Go me!
Things I learned from the friendly redhead stocking facial cleansers
He isn’t used to saying good morning
Because he’s usually sleeping at this time
Sleeping through Algebra 2
He’s lucky that the college he’s going to doesn’t have a minimum GPA or require the ACTs
It’s a 9-month technical course
At Wyotech
He’s going to learn to work on semi-trucks
His dad is not happy with this decision
Because he wanted him to [...]
How did you spend your Saturday night?
Why I watched an infomercial about The Midnight Special and I rather enjoyed it. Really.
Read moreSick pleasures
The one good thing about being sick? You can do all those things you really want to do on a Saturday but always feel guilty doing because you should be out there Carpe Dieming the hell out of life.
But when you have a cold you can crawl into bed at 5 p.m. with your [...]
I can feel it coming in the air tonight
“You have garlic at home, right?”
“Yes, like a whole bulb.”
“Okay, here’s what you do. Slice ‘em up and swallow them like aspirin.”
“Just wash them down with water?”
“Yeah.”
“How many?”
“I don’t know. I usually do two or three, a few times a day.”
“Are you kidding?”
“No. It works.”
“I’d rather have the cold, thanks.”
I love arguing
It seems our fair heroine made the Top 10 most comments list in Vox’s Anniversary post. I am so proud.
Read moreIf you haven’t gotten your copy yet
MN Monthly has a nice excerpt from Jim Walsh’s The Replacements: All Over But the Shouting.
Read moreIn which I am embarrassed by my own ineptness
My story “Rocket Science” is being workshopped tonight. This ass I am sitting on right now, it will be handed to me. I deserve it. The story is not good. I think it might be good for about seven pages or so, but then it just becomes a train wreck filled with half-ideas and no [...]
Read moreNo more Internet before bed
First I dream about Jason Kottke, and then last night I dreamt (dreamed? both look wrong) that after sitting on my front stoop watching giant spiders trap and eat giant flies, I was late for feng-shuing Aaron’s office. Nevermind that I know nothing about either.
Read moreWhat?
It’s like they’ve never seen a grown woman dunk her Pop Tart in a cup of coffee before.
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