While sitting around at E’s parents’ house, dozing off with a dog in my lap, I was suddenly disrupted from my half-slumber by a loud thud against the wall from outside. Through the window, I saw a plume of tiny feathers cascade outward from the source of the thud. The dog hopped to the window [...]
This weekend, we threw a fancy dress-up poker party at E’s parents’ place, since they were out of town and their house is pretty posh, a Victorian mansion over in charming Old West Lawrence. The boys donned their best interview suits and we girls unearthed our old homecoming and prom dresses (well, the ones we [...]
Like just about everybody in the world, my goal at work is to reduce my workload as much as possible. As a receptionist, this entails arranging things so that as few people as possible have to actually talk to me. I consider it a success, for instance, if I come into work and the little [...]
Last week, E’s friends came into town. Well, Kansas City, to be exact. They’ve spent the last two years teaching English in Korea, and the girl in particular has been trying to convince us to abandon the sinking ship that is the U.S. economy and join them. The couple sent out an invitation to a [...]
