I’m a Type A, high strung perfectionist most of the time. Lately, though, I am finding that I’m slipping.
Things I’ve let go of lately:
Having to write the most perfect thank you note to someone I met for 15 minutes. Does “Thanks for your time” somehow convey less than five finely crafted sentences that took me [...]
Evidence of my 36th birthday now available at http://www.flickr.com/photos/54monkeys/sets/72157605307943360/
If you’re a professional writer and you’re trying to convince other professionals to help you out with your writing project, you should consider a word other than “oodles” as your quantifier unless you’re talking about poodles.
ref: Thesaurus
This weekend we drove to Padre Island National Seashore to go camping. This may not sound stupendous, perhaps like a nice weekend out of the city. You might say, “Oh, camping! I love camping!” You would say this because you are the type of person whose parents probably took them camping every summer at least [...]
Back from NY late last night after a successful conference. It feels good to leave on a high note. Made limited use of brain today–breakfast, convention hotline, lunch with M. & B., long nap, dinner.
Spent 4 hours today manning the convention hotline, answering questions about how to choose delegates, where the convention is, and incredibly [...]
Picked up sign at 1211 Ave of Americas. Kinkos appears to be a front — workers in purple shirts asking customers if they need any help, but when customers say yes, the worker walks away to do something else entirely unrelated and to ask another customer if they’ve been helped yet. Sign is in good [...]
In New York. For some reason coming to New York does not inspire me. The city overwhelms with all of its tall buildings and short people. Are there really this many short people in the world or just a concentration of them here? Disappointed that none of the new podcasts or music I’ve downloaded lately [...]
