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Six December Stories
It is December, the holiday month, and outside the weather is cold and drizzly and sometimes there is a snowstorm. (Never mind that it is sunny with blue skies and a temperate breeze actually. In my head there is snow.) When it’s cold and grey outside, and all you want to do is stay wrapped … Continue reading
Working from home: the regrets
See Part 1, Working from home: the recipes. In retrospect, cheddar cheese and lettuce are not going to taste good with soy sauce no matter what they’re wrapped in.
Pre-coffee, spoiling for a fight
ME: Why is the internet so slow? GENE: Here, I can fix that. ME: Can you move this light? GENE: [Moves heavy light the requisite one foot.] ME: Why didn’t my email forward right? What is wrong? GENE: I’ll take a look. ME: Stupid Gmail. Stupid computer. I hate this fucking computer! GENE: Click “show … Continue reading
What’s so wrong with unicorns, anyway?
Why aren’t fantasy novels respectable? This is probably a stupid question that will be answered using the word “unicorn” a lot. But seriously, why not? I know there are more than a lot of badly-written fantasy books out there, but the same is true for standard fiction. And doesn’t it speak highly for an author’s … Continue reading
Little sheep dolls
I’ve inherited a creche from my grandmother, it seems. She died more than a decade ago and since then it’s been mouldering in one of my parents’ closets. However, this year I’ve been struck with holiday fever and when I asked about it the Moms was only too eager to get it out of her … Continue reading
Tattle-tale
Having finished my pressing deadlines for the day (though not my day’s work by any means), I just spent like half an hour mechanically going through and flagging miscategorized posts on Craigslist. I feel weird and a little gross now, like I’m the snitchy kid who lives to get the other kids in trouble. But, … Continue reading
[Flies out using jetpack.]
Maybe I’m wrong about this, but I bet Joyce couldn’t have written the way that he wrote if he’d had to constantly battle Microsoft Word’s idea of what constitutes a proper sentence. I have managed to make it stop red-lining the words it thinks I’ve misspelled. (You know, those esoteric things like proper names, or … Continue reading
Chat
me: hi! Gene: hello Gene: how are you? me: ok. I have a gummy foot. Gene: ?? me: I dunno, my toenail is kind of gummy me: not like I stepped in gum me: more like I am turning into gum Gene: hm me: maybe I shouldn’t hold my foot when I chat with you. … Continue reading
“The opposite of love was always disappearance.”
Gene left for Europe today, alas. Well…actually, it’s 9:30 in the morning as I type this and he is still here, packing. But in my heart I have already said goodbye; I’m unwilling to go through all that sad leave-taking again, so as far as I’m concerned, he’s already gone. This is creating small problems … Continue reading
The move
Gene spent a lot of last night moving the CementHorizon email over to Gmail. This is a good move for a lot of reasons, but I admit it caused some problems in our house this morning. Gene: So how are you doing with the email split? Me: Huh? Gene: Because your old email is at … Continue reading