Friday Five

I woke up with the inspiration for a Friday Five. Today, it’ll be Five Things I Want to do Before I Die.

1. Finish this damn degree.
2. Travel: See Egypt, hike in parts of Scotland. See bits of history in Europe. Even visit the North Carolina waterfalls.
3. Ride a Harley from East Coast to West, [...]

Whr R U?

Now, I think I’ve mentioned a time or two that I’m a bit tech-challenged. I’m so tech-challenged that it’s become a joke.
I received a text message yesterday. A good one. One that made me happy. So I, full of false bravado and confidence, began fumbling with the keypad of my phone to return it. [...]

Why I Hate House

It’s no secret that I like medical shows. I missed the ER boat, or, more accurately, watched as that ship sailed on by. I didn’t like it.
But that was before I started working in a hospital.
I love Scrubs. I get down with Grey’s Anatomy.
But I loathe House. That is not to say I don’t watch [...]

What Do You Want to Be When You Grow Up?

I eavesdropped on an amazing conversation yesterday. Well, I didn’t exactly eavesdrop, and it wasn’t the conversation that was so amazing, really.
I was there to speak with my adviser to clarify my class path. Someone else was there to speak with her about…well, I’m not sure, exactly. Which classes to take, I think. At least, [...]

Rewind

I never really revisited the Baha’i fast that I observed after I talked about it a few weeks ago. That may be partly because I’ve sort of been bursting at the seams (is that not an incredibly gross turn of phrase that is so readily accepted?) with all these things that have been screaming “me [...]

Speaking of evil, selfish cats…

A poem we went over in Adolescent Lit today:
Fat Cat
My cat, no Lassie, looks at me
With eyes whose green tranquility
Could watch me drown as long as she
Had just been fed. She ought to be
A grand Episcopalian cat
With blue jay feathers on her hat,
Who flips her furs across the pew
While blandly disregarding you;
A cat who gets [...]

Why I Love My Cat (Even Though She’s Evil Incarnate)

… that’s not actually true. Don’t get me wrong, she is certainly evil. Evil, evil, evil.
But really, she’s only the diet Coke of evil.
When she was a kitten, I think she actually had a soul. It may have been one of a duck, since that’s what she sounded like as my ex-husband and I brought [...]

Another day, another 24 hours…

…closer to my goal.
Since I’m here, waiting for a new migraine medicine to *hopefully* do its job, I figure I’ll keep it short and sweet.
I was told by my American Lit prof tonight after a writing workshop that my paper “put the fear of God into my classmates.”
I wish I were more humble. I wish [...]

Perfect Moments

My mom had her colonoscopy done today; after class I went to see how she was doing. I’ve never had one, but I’ve heard that they’re not exactly the Disneyland of procedures. She was fine.
But while we were outside, sipping iced tea in that Southern way, I stopped mid-sentence when I noticed that, against the [...]

Monday Masochism

Just because it seems the day for it.
From my own notebook:
New Orleans
She watches as a middle aged man,
Church suit still unwrinkled,
Heeds the cat call and greets
A pair of fishnet stockings familiarly.
Cleopatra eyes gazing at him,
He takes a hand and, with a twenty,
Leads a neon mini skirt to his hourly home.
 
She idly wonders if he knows
That [...]