No maps for these territories

Ok. So in +- an hour, I’m out of here, to Sacramento… things are more or less packed, as packed as they’re gonna get. Snacks. Books on tape. Computer (shortly). Some clothes, and shoes even if I can find my other sandal. I’m not getting too uptight about this trip. Actually signing on an apt. [...]

There’s a cartoon in one of the June issues of the New Yorker that shows two people sitting in lounge chairs on the beach. The woman is talking to the man, and the caption reads: “Just tell me when you’ve had too much sun and you’d like to get back to our intense sexual psychodrama.” [...]

Association of Internet Researchers and the Survey on livejournal use that got me there. Who knew? Perhaps this is what I am. “Brassratgirl, Internet Researcher at large.”

I’m a man of means, by no means / king of the road – Roger Miller Half drunk, with another half to go – Chuckanut Drive Is there anything better than cold pasta consumed as a midnight snack after a night out with your friends? I think not. Tonight was Chuckanut Drive and Richmond Fontaine [...]

And all of this is over, and we can worry about southern politics again, Kinky Friedman for governor of Texas.

Rita, Rita, Hurricane… – sung to “Lovely Rita” I can’t believe the horror of watching something that powerful barrel towards you, in slow-mo, as it were, only much too fast for any kind of comfort. I have a friend in Corpus, some more in Houston; I have connections in that part of the world, more [...]

Apparently I learned to dive on the reef that the REEF foundation lists as the most biologically diverse of their surveyed sites. Who knew? Anyway, I don’t forsee when my next trip will be, which is sad.. I wonder when I’ll get in the water next. Perhaps I’ll take up diving in the Monterey kelp [...]