Archive for August, 2005

Unnatural Business Hours

Wednesday, August 31st, 2005

I woke up at 5:00am this morning with my stomach talking, mumbling actually, and so when 5:45am rolled around and I was still trying to go back to sleep, I hatched a plan to come to work early and leave early. I have executed that plan. By 6:00am I was on the road, noticing that […]

There’s Been An Accident

Tuesday, August 30th, 2005

I dropped my beloved PowerBook tonight. I was putting on the bag that I carry it in and apparently mis-operated the shoulder strap because the forces of Intelligent Falling took the bag (and my PowerBook inside it) straight to the ground behind me. It now has a nice soft dent about the size […]

Hair Rock Weekend

Monday, August 29th, 2005

Saturday marked the first ever Dock Rock (2005) at Joe’s place on Lake Lanier. Jess and I made the short drive from Alpharetta, she grading drawings from her Spanish class while I guided the Jeep up Peachtree Industrial. Reports of the expected crowd were varied — “It could be 8 people, it could […]

PostSecret Strikes Again

Monday, August 29th, 2005

I’ve been reading PostSecret for a few months now (and actually considering unsubscribing because of the weird thing the guy does to his RSS feed), but then I encountered this: “I have made six postcards, all with secrets that I was afraid to tell the one person I tell everything to, my boyfriend. This […]

Sensible Furniture for 1128

Sunday, August 21st, 2005

On Saturday morning Mike called to say that he and a friend were heading over to IKEA. He was in town from Nashville, and since I haven’t yet been to the new Atlanta IKEA, I rolled out of bed and headed into the city. After getting stuck in a bit of traffic on […]