doc and i have noticed this phenomenon lately — and it’s really not that much of a phenomenon, it’s just one of those things that made you think “wow, is this actually happening?” have you ever been completely and utterly…

I had a very strange bad dream a couple of nights ago. It involved an observation platform, a buffalo nickel, orange jello, and a bad attitude. Last night I fell asleep early, and when Doc came and lay down next…

Just went to see Donnie Darko: The Director’s Cut. I have mixed feelings about it. It’s one of my favorite movies of all time, but I think that perhaps the things that Richard Kelly added back in kind of overexplain…

when you’re swimming in the sea, and an eel bites your kneethat’s… a moray so brittney and i are taking a swim exercise class at richland college, along with her friend karen, twice a week. our first class was yesterday.…

There’s this new commercial for a cell phone — Kyocera I think (which took an embarrasingly long time for me to figure out how to pronounce… I’d heard commercials for a phone called “Kia-Sarah” but it never quite connected in…

Most photography by Doc. He is gooood. I am adequate. I took the picture of the water tower. The water in the stream was icy coooooold. I could not pass the ten-second feet-dunking test.

I scored 118, which I think is fairly respectable. I missed some obvious ones because I couldn’t think of what song they were from, and there were only one or two where I knew the song but wasn’t sure what…

We saw The Village yesterday. I liked it. It was creepy, not terribly scary, intriguing, and had a cool plot twist. It’s probably not my favorite Shyamalan film (that would have to be The Sixth Sense, which was creepy, intriguing,…

so yesterday, on our way back from portland, where we’d been vacationing (and me at a creativity conference) for five days, our flight time was delayed by 30 minutes. which was fine… no big deal, i thought; we’d just get…

A list of random stuff that’s been going on: The little TV in the bedroom quit working last night. I’ve been having very vivid interesting dreams that I can’t remember for more than 30 minutes in the morning. We replaced…