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After reading my previous post, Paul said he thought I’d been a bit excessive in extolling his virtues (and besides, he’s been getting a lot of flack at work for the Jane Austen thing.) Therefore, in the interests of complete honesty, I am obliged to inform you of the following Paul-related facts:
~He has five or [...]

Top Ten of Paul

On the first afternoon I ever spent with Paul, we sat and talked for hours, hidden in the branches of a magnolia tree next to the sidewalk that led to the campus library. We had bumped into each other between classes and climbed the tree on a lark. The leaves shaded us, the breeze blew, [...]

100 Things I Like

sleeping inSuperbowl partiesscience fictionkissingmovie previewstomato soup and grilled cheese sandwichesgirls night outhearing from an old friendmaking listsscrapbooking all nightWillie Fordslumber partiesleftoversa Southern accentpumpkin-scented candles (especially Yankee candles)Diet Coke—and lots of itmy big, soft, grey V-neck sweaterChristmas music in Novemberthong undiestrying new foodscheap home decorating ideasthe first snowfallBath & Body Works Warm Vanilla Sugar body spraya [...]

100 Things That Bug Me

VPL: visible panty lineTeletubbiesflat sodamisplacing thingslooking forward to the last brownie only to find that someone else ate it firstinconsiderate driversthose 5 pounds that sneak up behind me and attach themselves to my butt when I’m not lookingholes in my socksbody odorpop-up adsbeing misunderstooddropping food on my shirticy roadscold floor on bare feet in the [...]

Twenties, Where Did You Go?

Official evidence that I am Getting Old:
I caught the last twenty minutes of the movie Reality Bites on T.V. yesterday. As Ethan Hawke wound up his existential angst-ridden performance as the quintessential soul-searching street philosopher (a role with which I was enraptured, as I recall, in the early nineties), all I could think was, “What [...]

Saving the World, One Piece of Cake at a Time

Apparently, superheroes don’t learn complete control over their powers until well into adulthood. I should know, because we had half a dozen superheroes of the four-feet-and-under variety running around our apartment this weekend, and they almost brought the Hall of Justice crashing down with all of their indiscriminate laser beam shooting, reckless flying, and accidental [...]

Kinky

You know, not too long ago in American history, women actually used to leave the house in curlers. You could see them at the grocery store, heads encased in hermetically sealed plastic caps, nodding to their neighbors while they did their shopping, as if enslaving your hair on tightly wound rods of pink and green [...]

VIP Parking

I just got back from the grocery store. A man in a giant SUV waited nearly ten minutes for my parking space. Granted, it was a good spot, the first one in the row as you exit the store, but ten minutes? He pulled up just behind me as I walked to my car with [...]