Queen of Rambles

I’m having an almost irresistible urge to grab the scissors and just start chop chop chopping away on my hair. Why? I have no idea. My hair isn’t bothering me. I have been paying a lot of money (for me) to get good cuts. I’m very happy with it most of the time. But there [...]

It’s Saturday and I think I just might live. I hate being sick! I thought my first two years of teaching were supposed to build up my immunity for life, but apparently these Virginia bugs are different from Oregon bugs. I’m not surprised. These Virginia people are very different from Oregon people so surely their [...]

I was totally dreading my doctor’s appointment today, mainly because I was going to see a male. I did not want to see a male. I did not want some gruff old man with white hair and big glasses to stick his hands up my privates. I did not want some man to tell me [...]

I’ve got nothing today. It’s a good thing I made myself unavailable for work because I would have been completely worthless. I am so stuffed up that I couldn’t even take my temperature. I’d close my mouth and panic because I couldn’t breathe. I finally managed to get it done and I did have a [...]

I thought THIS was bad enough, but I guess not. Has this country gone completely mad? A Marriage Proposal in New York. I don’t even know if I can bring myself to comment on this. Is no one thinking through the reprecussions? Marriages of convenience, abuse, anger, resentment. . . . of course it wouldn’t [...]

I’m a fount of snot today. It pours and pours and pours, sometimes in violent bursts of sneezes, sometimes in the slow torture of drip drip drip. I find this entirely unfair. I’ve only been over my last cold a week! My kingdom for a Sudafed! But no. . . I may sacrifice a kingdom, [...]

Today brought another entry to the Just Say No list. I’d like to find the teacher I subbed for today and kick her teeth in. Or at least have a few words with her. This particular school makes subs fill in a fairly detailed feedback form and I left her a scathing report. I guess [...]

I’m so proud of myself tonight. As you probably remember, I’m trying to eat healthier. I have a cookbook with a bunch or recipes that mostly don’t sound all that great, but I have been cooking them and eating them and most of them are actually pretty good. For the past two weeks I’ve had [...]

I’ve been craving Indian food for weeks, but it is so much trouble to get to our favorite Indian place that we just don’t go. We like to ride the metro into the city then walk up to the restaurant, but it’s been so cold lately that it hasn’t been an option. Today I decided [...]

I think our answering machine is possessed. I erased a message and suddenly it went crazy. The little digital display started going in spastic circles, but that didn’t scare me. The date was all wrong, but that didn’t scare me. When the speaker started purring like a cat? THAT scared me. If it would have [...]