We drove through central Wisconsin this weekend on a little teeny “get the fuck out of the house” adventure, and I’m still stymied by the loads of Trump flags. It is mid July. The election happened last year. So much awful has happened since then and yet still, mid-July 2021 and these people are flying […]
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I’m not sure when my body started falling apart. This month, I turned fifty.
Last year, I coordinated a series of postal mailings that allowed and rewarded social distancing while also supporting the use of the USPS. We called in Dearest Confinement Friends, because that’s what we were and are, many of us sending letters to friends that we just hadn’t met yet in person. Then came the annual […]
This weekend, we had Christmas Tree drama. It’s likely that our movers destroyed our Christmas tree — we haven’t opened the storage bag yet, but it looks distinctly WRONG. Before we moved to Vegas, we traditionally had two trees, but I had gotten rid of the older of the two when we moved, rather than […]
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Friday, November 20, 2020
So, we left Las Vegas and bought a house we had never set foot in until the minute we arrived, exhausted by a 1800 mile road trip. I do not recommend this strategy. In August, when we were in the midst of packing, I wrote “The house is somewhat of a midcentury wreck — still […]
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Thursday, August 20, 2020
So, here’s what Las Vegas summer is like — blowing hot wind, like standing in front of a hair dryer, or an oven door just opened, a wooof of hot air that just keeps coming — and it never not ever cools down. 330+ days of sunshine, months and months without a rain drop, occasional […]
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The housing market in Wisconsin is bonkers right now. No, seriously, it’s bonkers. We are seeing houses that sold in fall of last year going for 200% what they sold for just 9 months ago. We found a house that sold three months ago now back on the market, no changes, no improvements, asking 45% […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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