kelly | January 4, 2011
2010 is officially over now. I’ve been meaning to talk to you about it for months, but life got in the way. It’ll be a bit more concise now. Lucky you. If the second half of 2010 had a theme, it was Challenge is the New Black. A couple of months ago something snapped and [...]
kelly | August 25, 2008
perhaps all the olympic competition has brought this to the forefront, but i’ve noticed an unhealthy trend in how we define our personal happiness, self-worth, goals. competition is healthy, yes. i know that we need archetypes to place ourselves on the spectrum. we need examples of what not to do, of what to do. we [...]
kelly | March 22, 2008
while ryan, charlotte, and i were walking back from the lincoln memorial, we stumbled across a scene that surprisingly moved me to tears. at first, we wondered if it might have been staged, but after considering the likely-hood of the random events (high), and confirming with gina, apparently these sorts of things happen all the [...]
kelly | September 1, 2007
wherein kelly throws herself a whiny pity party and decides upon review that she really doesn’t care about the tense shifting and inconsistent capitalization enough to do anything about it. let’s recap, shall we? January bad: found out my dad’s “spots” were very terminal pancreatic cancer February good: *finally* sold our damn house. bittersweet: found [...]
kelly | February 26, 2007
there’s something about lent that makes me want to go back to church. i’m guessing it’s a fairly decent mix of the whole “do something to make yourself a better/stronger” person, lots of pre-lenten advertising in the form of mardi gras, and those random folks with smudges on their head on ash wednesday saying loud [...]
kelly | January 1, 2007
here’s the things that i’d like to do this year: drink less soda (maybe 1 a day?) drink way more water (some in the form of tea) wean myself mostly off of caffeine by march-ish exercise regularly (once week by march, adding a “once” every week every quarter) read one book a month (pitiful goal, [...]
kelly | October 12, 2006
while multitasking at work yesterday, steve and i started chatting on a broad range of topics. i do not understand why he doesn’t read more books. he doesn’t understand why i consider participating in nanowrimo to be a guilty pleasure. this led to a more refined discussion about how for me, it’s about the story. [...]
kelly | October 24, 2005
friday: when you factor in the metrolink ride to the airport, waiting for the plane, and then waiting some more because the (vice) president was also flying out of the city that night, the 45 minute train ride from the airport to the stop closest to the hotel and the 6ish block walk, it may [...]
