Gazelles On Crack

it’s hard to be graceful after six martinis

Archive for July, 2008


To Whoever found me by googling for

“How much does 30 pounds of crack weigh?”
The answer:  30 pounds.
Consider that your public service of the day.  (Also, maybe you should lay off the crack & work on your math skills.  Or even just your common sense skills.  And I’m not any kind of drug know-it-all, but it seems like 30 pounds of crack [...]

Blargh!!! Also BUSY!!!

So yesterday, I went home a wee bit early. Because of the BLARGH!! mentioned in the post title. It was the first time I’ve taken any sick time since starting my new job. Admittedly, it’s only been three months, and it was only about 3 hours, but still. I felt kinda guilty.
Today was the going [...]

PARTY!!

So, the architect & I are having a party.  It always seems like a good idea until I actually invite people & they start RSVP-ing, and then I remember, “oh yeah!  People are going to come to my HOME!  And they are going to stay until late!  And I am going to have to make [...]

Faux-lebrity encounter

This morning Jennifer Grey got on my bus. Of course, it wasn’t actually Jennifer Grey, because I’m guessing that the real Jennifer Grey a) didn’t get her old nose back; b) wouldn’t be on a bus in Portland at 7:30 AM; c) got rid of that perm 20 years ago; and d) wouldn’t be caught [...]

That’s better…..

Today is MUCh better.  Last night’s martini definitely helped there!  I am doing my work and doing it well.  I ate my healthy lunch, and other than a short lament about the dearth of cookies in my department (right now, there are lunches every day for our new residents, and they always have leftovers - [...]

We interrupt this broadcast for a test of the emotional eating system….

Today’s entry was supposed to be called “what not to (Foot)wear.” (A response to the very classy woman I saw on MAX this morning, wearing a men’s cut suit that suited (hee) her perfectly, great hair, great presentation – classically elegant without being feminine – and then, I saw her feet. Tevas. Seriously. I am [...]

Slate covers Fetal Separation

I am pretty proud to be from South Dakota.  After all, there aren’t so many of us.  However, every once in a while, the legislature makes me cringe.
Case in point: the new legislation requiring doctors to tell women seeking an abortion (at the one clinic in South Dakota) that they “will terminate the life of [...]