Real Life

Things related to that reality thing people are always going on about.

Go Ahead and Hit Me

Go Ahead and Hit Me

Tuesday I was stuck at the courthouse all day, waiting to see if I would serve on a jury. To insulate myself from boredom and also humans, I took a couple books. Harry Potter y la piedra filosofal, to practice my Spanish, the Da Vinci Code because I’ve been meaning to see just how Dan […]

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Things You Should Know About How Greyhound Works

Things You Should Know About How Greyhound Works

So if you’ve been around this blog at all lately, you know the short answer to “how does Greyhound work?” is “not well.” If you can afford to fly, I heartily recommend that you do so. But sometimes, like when you need to get three people across the country and back when you’ve barely got

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I Wanna Be Nocturnal

I Wanna Be Nocturnal

I used to go nocturnal over the summer. It worked really well. I’d get up about noon, one o’clock, and about the time I moseyed my way through breakfast and coffee and “morning” internet surfing, by the time I was feeling up to sticking my head out my door, it would be time to go

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Eight Arms of Protection

I have a tiny octopus protector. He sits on my mouse and keeps me from wandering off (so much). He’s why I got three thousand words yesterday. He’s why I didn’t click off to check on Twitter just now. This attention thing is hard. As I pointed out to my daughter yesterday, she comes by

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Our Journey Begins!

Before the horror fades into fond memories of adventure, let me warn you off going Greyhound if you can possibly avoid it. We were to leave at ten a.m. June 5. The bus we were to get on, however, broke down, and they just canceled that route. We waited until almost two in the afternoon

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Scatterbrained

So apparently vacation scatters my mind. Not a bad thing–I do believe it needed the break. I let it run all over the place for the last twelve days, and I’m sure when it finds its way home, it will be much happier. But now I’m trying to get myself put back together, and I

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I’m Not Dead!

I'm Not Dead!

I just have my moments. Disney World was amazing. We had so much fun. I can’t even begin to explain how much fun we had, so I’ll just skip over that till I’ve got some stuff put away and a whole seven or so hours of sleep (in a row! I hope!) behind me. My

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