Today, I suffered through Ricky Gervais as a guest DJ on the David Bowie dedicated radio station on Sirius XM. As he spoke, I realized that he reminded me of a coworker, who was a bit of an asshole — and that made sense because Ricky Gervais is a terrific mean person. In fact, I’d […]
Saturday was the day I was supposed to get hooded. (That’s a weird verb, right? Hooded? It sounds very violent or maybe racist, but really it’s the thing they do for PhDs — I guess it’s very Merlin-y? ) Our original plans were to have family in from out of town — a thing that […]
Sometime two days ago, my lips started feeling weird. They do that sometimes. Typically if I’ve eaten something I’m allergic to, but also if I put something on my face that causes a reaction. I know I haven’t accidentally eaten something I’m allergic to because I haven’t left the house in two weeks. Which leaves […]
This week is a momentous week in the cycle of the Bix Casita — switching from hot espresso drinks to cold coffee concentrate drinks. By rights we should have switched sooner, as the mercury has been creeping upward in the Vegas valley and we’ve already seen many days with highs in the 90s and it […]
When I’m stressed, my lizard brain decides to cry. The problem is that it doesn’t inform the rest of my brain that it’s time to cry — my eyes just start leaking, big rollers falling down my cheeks like a soap opera star facing her thought-dead long lost lover. I can be thinking about something […]
Yesterday was a surprisingly busy day and I uncharacteristically slept late (9 am!) which of course was far too hot to bring the doggoes for their morning walkabouts. Anything over 75 degrees is really too warm for these smush faces to exercise in, even while wearing their auxiliary cooling vests under their harnesses. Which was […]
I had a wonderful chat with my LV bestie Lindsay today. We turned over various plottings for Life After All This, and came up with a way to revolutionize the literary community and galvanize it in a way that solves the problem of both publishers and the adrift independent writers. The problem is that I […]
My students are so amazing, every single day they just stun and humble me to the depths of my soul and I can’t believe how lucky I have been to get to talk to them as my “work” (it’s not work). Today, was part two of my informal “here’s the truth about publishing” talk — […]
I come from a long line of alcoholics. When I was a kid, I swore I would never drink — mostly to hold something against the adults who were constantly assuring me that drinking to excess was a fine adult hobby but also because I saw exactly how those adults had personalities that morphed. Some […]
I have an unfortunate relationship with social media. I can see the idiocy in this entire statement by the way, given that blogs are essentially a focused form of one way social media. But also, I am reminded of the adage that if a service is free, then you are the thing being sold, and […]
