Category: oops
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The Murderous Mandoline
No, not the musical kind… …this kind: Some of you know I have a fondness for cooking. Mostly I’m only able to complete meals when someone else is eating, typically the lucky/unlucky person I love. But in an effort to be healthier and keep grocery bills down (prepared foods cost more than their ingredients, have […]
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My Accidental Date with David Leavitt
I’ve been busy lately. Busy-busy. So busy, in fact, I have almost no time to read my personal email (much less read it closely). So when a friend of mine mentioned he’d made reservations for a group of us for Wednesday night of DC’s restaurant week, I dutifully got all bundled up last night, timed […]
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Say Hello to My Little Friends
It was sort of embarrassing in retrospect yesterday, when I came back from seeing my doctor for a follow-up (still no firm diagnosis, but the pain’s gone), the post office, Human Resources, etc–only to discover that the shirt I’d been wearing all day completely and totally exposed my nipples to the entire world, and not […]
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An Argument for Reading Things Closely
I got a bit of really unfortunate news this morning when I came in to work. Some of you know that over the past few weeks I have been writing grant after grant after grant. Two of them were in support of expanding LOCUSPOINT in some way, shape, or form. The first of those is […]