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Bookbinding Tattoo, concept art
Someone asked me where I found the art for my nonexistent biopsy scar-covering tattoo, and I thought you guys might be interested… This came from a series of 18th Century bookbindings. It’s too...
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Stupid girls, stupid pepper spray, stupid racist cab driver
A listing of grievances: Two stupid girls have a hair-tearing fight on the bus Liquid and curly fries fly everywhere The guy in front of me puts up his arm, so I do too The fighting high school girls...
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Happy Fathers Day
This is my dad, the best joker in the world. Who else would dance to “Re: Your Brains” (Jonathan Coulton’s Zombie song) at his daughter’s wedding? My dad, the legally blind man who taught me to drive a...
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How to stop using paper towels
Chuck works on motorcycles, and I’m a kitchen clean freak. We used to go through a shameful amount of paper towels. Like, buy in bulk, hate-the-earth, bulldoze-Costa-Rica amounts. Then my friend Skud...
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Daily Hilarity
Things today that made me laugh until I snorted: Translating a boring work conversation into hula Faygo Rock n’ Rye soda exploding in a Last Stand sort of way inside Chuck’s motorcycle case Blurting...
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Top Five Things I Have Learned About Babies
My daughter, Elizabeth West Firment, was born in early November. The last…ever since…has been a nonstop, nonsleep blur of boobs, love, fuss, and delirium. In the process, I have learned these five...
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Things that now qualify as “me time”
Breastpumping My commute to work Taking a shower The three block walk to return my library books Sleeping Leaning on my similarly exhausted husband and staring vacantly at something on a screen...
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Data munging
Recently I’ve been importing the ancient Librarian Avengers archives to live within WordPress. Because the site goes back to…hrm… 1997, there’s some data munging to do. Right now I’m concerning myself...
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An Introvert’s Guide to Writing
Introvert, extrovert, or false dichotomy? I’ve been baring my soul and cockeyed schemes on the internet since 1997. I tell total strangers here on this site about my life, my thoughts on work, and the...
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Thoughts on 37
According to the calendar and math, I just turned 37 years old. This meets most definitions of adulthood. I’m a parent, and a wife. I have a professional portfolio with 15 years worth of stuff in it....
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