About a month ago, while shuffling through tons of copies of advising materials, my co-worker informed me that the copier was out of toner. “Already? Geez, that was fast,” I’d said, noting that I’d just replaced the toner a few weeks previous. Without much thought to it, I ordered the toner from this company we [...]
Today, I noticed something a bit odd at work: punctuating the oppressive drone of the busses was a fair amount of cheering. Was there a football game, and if so, why did it sound like it was coming from across the street? Curiousity overcame my inertia, and I went down to investigate: Could this be? [...]
Nothing much has happened of note lately; I feel like I have knitted quite a bit, without actually having finished much. The sweater is an endless source of frustration and ripping back, for no good reason – it’s just ribbing, for chrissakes! I have a pattern and a template sweater to work from, but I [...]
My first encounter with the Renaissance Man was at a party. The boy and I didn’t know many people there, and so we sat there with our drinks in hand, participating / eavesdropping on other people’s conversations. The Renaissance Man had brought a date, a wafer-thin girl with long model hair. Undeterred by the scornfully [...]
