Earlier this year, during an unseasonably cold Friday, I took a personal day from work and went with Kim and then-baby Thomas to the Field Museum. After a busy morning of playing with various toddler-friendly dioramas, we ate lunch at the museum café and had the following conversation:
You know, I asked half facetiously, what would [...]
“well, not your doppelganger exactly, but somebody who sort of looks like you, except shorter and with carly simon’s speaking voice (that is, it she’s got a semi-raspy perpetual ‘do you have pneumonia?’ voice), pictured here: [...] and i was trying to prove to her that i knew somebody who kinda sorta looked like her [...]
“Would you ever wait at this bus stop?” she asks, pointing at the lonely bench standing in the shadow of the el tracks in a barren part of town.
Uh, no. Pretty scary, actually.
“Guys really don’t know how much easier you have it. You always have to be so on-your-guard as a woman in the city, [...]
#50. Ranch Dressing is made from milk.
What an afternoon. Urgh.
Some blogs I always keep an eye on in my RSS Reader:
Big Time Fancy – I’m a sucker for girls who blog about their self-destructive behaviors, particularly those who despite brazenly broadcasting their drunken sexual misadventures also manage to squeeze in a little self-reflection, a little personal tragedy, a little depth and wistfulness amidst all [...]
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