The song of the day on repeat here at Supergenius HQ has been Josh Ritter’s Empty Hearts. I can’t seem to get enough of it today on this last day of 2007.
Last year I rang in 2007 alone. It was a choice I made to forgo any partying or people or merriment. Not a [...]

I am tempting fate right now by watching “Fahrenheit 451″ on the DeeVer. If I am struck down in my sleep, you’ll know why.

The Dairi Burger, wherein a 29-year-old woman rereads all her old Sweet Valley High books. The awesomeness is unquantifiable.

It is clear to me that I have huge guilt about the book burning. Sure I didn’t like the book, but still. . .
So this morning during my mid-morning nap I dreamt that a tornado struck my house and sucked all my books out of the house, depositing them wet and twisted around the [...]

Well, my gift of Then We Came to the End caused a lot of excitement at Seamus’ Re-gifting party. After answering about 39,015 questions about the horribleness of the book, Lee and Seamus decided it deserved to burn.

It surprises me how uncomfortable I was with burning the book. It felt really, really wrong. Even though [...]

Top local stories of the year wrap: The Mole’s list

Bedtime: 1:04 a.m.
Waketime: 9:28 a.m.
Goals for the day: Write some stuff
Okay. I am a little ashamed to admit this, but I have not left Supergenius HQ since Tuesday. It’s Friday today. I went outside last night to check the mail just to make sure the outside still existed. It does. From what I could tell [...]

In the NY Times: Notable Deaths of 2007: A Slide Show.

Bedtime: 3:14 a.m.
Waketime: 9:06 a.m.
Goals for the day: To not lose my shit, register for my writing class, figure it all out.
Well, I finally figured out how to make a good cup of coffee. At least I think I have. This might just be the best thing that happens today. We’ll see if I can [...]

First of all, I smell like peanut butter. Again, this is not a complaint, merely a statement of fact. I’ve been subsisting on bread and peanut butter for the past two days. Not because there’s no other food here, but only because Sister #4 brought over all this great bread for dinner the other night [...]

I just watched an episode of Alice. I have reached the pinnacle of slackerdom.

Bedtime: 1:24 a.m.
Waketime: 7:25 a.m.
Goals for the day: lollygag, dilly-dally, lounge about, veg, slack, not wear a bra, figure out how to make a good cup of coffee, watch the Rock of Love marathon, and perhaps finish reading Richard Lange’s most-decent Dead Boys.
All the work for the past week has come down to this, [...]

Elf and A Christmas Story are both on at the same time! It’s the best thing to ever happen to a commercial break.

I still wish for all of you at least one person in your life who will change out of their pajamas so you don’t have to go see a cute boy’s band play alone.
This year I wish for you the obvious an education, family, friends, and a life that is full of the unexpected. [...]

Two days of cleaning, a day and a half of cooking, a gallon each of homemade soup and chili, dusted bookcases and I was practically stood up. Yeah. No aunts or uncles or cousins. One set called in sick, another called in apathetic, another was just MIA. My sisters (sans Sister #2 who was in [...]