Yesterday I packed for the shortest and strangest trip I have ever been on. At 1 p.m. a car service came to pick up me, my bike, my golf clubs, my skis and two suitcases full of things I believe to be both representative of me and perhaps of interest to others. Among these items [...]
Entries from October 2006
October 17, 2006
Take back the disorder
Pet peeve of people who actually have Obsessive Compulsive Disorder? People who claim they have Obsessive Compulsive Disorder or know someone who does because that person “cleans a lot” or “hates germs” or is “really, really organized” or “makes a lot of lists” or is “totally anal.”
Newsflash: these people do not have OCD, they [...]
October 16, 2006
The stuff you want to know that you don’t really want to know
Tonight after I finished “sharking” the living room and giving the shark a little bath (yes, some people clean their cleaning implements) my roommate and I enjoyed a quiet evening reliving the better moments of our past relationships. We have known each other since we were fourteen, approximately the beginning of the dating era, so [...]
October 15, 2006
The true meaning of Halloween
This is a post from a blog I created last year, but I feel it’s timely and worth re-posting.
People say that one of the great things about Halloween is that, unlike other holidays, there is no deeper meaning to be honored. If Halloween were a friend of yours, it would be the friend who is immature, playful [...]
October 14, 2006
Based on actual events
Not surprisingly (if you know me), I have very high expectations for this first post. I feel pressure to write something profoundly compelling that will immediately attract traffic from across the blogosphere, or whatever it’s called. I mean, it took me months just to decide which blogging software to use and what to name this [...]
