OK, Target’s using General Public in one of their ads? Really? I give up. Thank you, fitness club TV, for cluing me in to the fact that I am officially too old to write about pop culture and should move on to writing about how I have too damn many potato peelers in my kitchen drawers and I don’t even know how they got there. Speaking of old, I dyed my hair blond this weekend. Really blond. It hasn’t been like this since I was 20.
Hello 35! I am ready for you!
I got one of those awesome new Android OS phones at work. The kind that let you download apps that make theremin or machine gun sounds and have a 45-minute battery life. It’s great! Except for the fact that I keep getting calls from Rikers Island.
So, I will be away all week at a conference in St. Louis, land of arches and toasted raviolis and high schools. Expect everything to be quiet here–as usual, these days. Or maybe it won’t be quiet here! Maybe I’ll live-blog the conference! Don’t you all want to learn about academic IT department best practices?
The One-Eyed Undertaker is the nom-de-plume of a friend who works as an undertaker-cum-”catch-all” at his family’s funeral home. It’s a fascinating line of work–certainly one that’s had a lot of interest from the media these days–and it’s even more interesting because he’s a great storyteller. If I didn’t want to be dumped in the Thames when I died, I’d certainly use his services. Here’s an interview we did in 2005.
Where did she go?
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