It has been approximately 4,844 days since I last ingested a hamburger, meatloaf, steak, pork chop or other cow/pig product.

Knock off a few thousand days and that will be the last time I ingested poultry of any kinda.

 Subtract 4,830 days and that's the last time I ingested fish.

 I… Read full post »

I was sitting on the train this morning and picked up The Metro, something I normally don't do, but I didn't watch the Celtics upset the Cavs last night and I wanted to read the sports section.  I flipped the paper open and I saw it.  I audibly gasped.

 Husband, who… Read full post »

 In February, Husband and I headed off to our local animal shelter, the MSCPA, in search of a new addition to our little family.  I'd checked online to see who and what was available and had narrowed it down to two possibilities: a three legged mutt and a deaf terrier.  (We l… Read full post »

Cartagena, Colombia -  I woke up this morning in Minca.  A small, mountain town in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta moutain range.   Despite being awake for most of the night, I´m up early- sleep has been limited since our arrival in country 15 days ago.  Uncomfortable… Read full post »

Does anyone really need another reason to hate airlines and flying in general?

 It seems that Continental and Delta thought that they hadn't irritated and inconvenienced us all enough.  We now have to shell out $25 to have the pleasure of having our bags manhandled and tossed around li… Read full post »

I too read the statistics on how Americans pretty much despise their jobs.  But I've had a different reaction than most:  I felt sorry for the 55% who can't bear to wake up in the morning and start the work day.  I'm one of the 45% that is satisfied with her… Read full post »

Well, it's only been what? Nearly 10 months since my last OS post?  First resolution: post more on OS.

 That's my first New Year's resolution ever.  Not entirely true.  My first one that wasn't me being a jackass.  I used to frequently resolve to not take up smoking.  I'… Read full post »

When I was 18, fresh out of high school, barely into my first few hours as a freshman at the University of Northern Colorado, I applied for my very first credit card.   Stuffed  at the bottom of the school bookstore's shopping bag, lying somewhere between my music theory workbooks and… Read full post »

The view of our Tukuls on the Mesket Escaprment in the Northern highlands of Ethiopia

When your first tell people you are taking your next vacation to Ethiopia the most standard reply is a scrunched up face, a disaproving, "Why?" and then a very bad joke about how… Read full post »

I just checked my cell phone call log.  I've made 48 calls to the same number in the last three days.  617.626.6800.  For the unitiated, that's the number to Massachusetts' Unemployment Insurance Teleclaim Center. 

 I should have kept track of each response I received when I… Read full post »

1.  I like memes (hence this post)

2. I like to talk about myself when I'm on the interwebs (hence this post)

3.  I'm pescetarian.  That means I eat fish and veggies and dairy only.  And I only eat fish that have been given the green light.  I recently ingested pork… Read full post »

Layoff Day: November 14, 2008.   It still stings.  It came so suddenly.  No warning.  When rumors started flying about two weeks before Layoff Day I went into my supervisor's office and asked her, point blank, "Am I safe?  Do I need to start looking elsewhere?"  "No.&nbs… Read full post »

Let's talk some baseball, shall we?  (I'm personally tired of all the damn PUMA posts and the idiocy that ensues in the comments section immediately thereafter).

Yeah for instant replay!  It's about damn time.  Starting this Thursday, just in time for the play off race to really heat… Read full post »

I should learn to not be surprised by the Bush administration's ability to horrify me.    He and his cronies have an amazing ability to make me more angry than any other person/place/thing on earth.   Today's horrification:  I was checking news headlines on my phone during my… Read full post »

I fell in love with John Edwards when I saw him speak at the Colorado Trial Lawyers Association gala several years ago.  I was mesmerized.  An electrifying speaker, handsome, and all the right (left?!) political leanings.  I remember turning to my table companion, the attorney I worked… Read full post »

The Old Stag Tavern.  Not much to look at, but it has cheap drinks, a rowdy (but fun) clientele, and a juke box with the largest collection of Latin music I've ever seen.   I am often  one of a handful of non-Latino drinkers (Puerto… Read full post »

The one that used to think holding potentially innocent people for even 48 hours without a hearing was heinous. This was the first time during my law school tenure that I agreed with the bare-knuckled badger-wrasslingjudge named Scalia. Some quotes from one of my favorite Scalia dissents,/… Read full post »

I have a lovely view of a downtown Boston alley. I figure I'm pretty lucky, actually. I have my own office (with window, obviously)- complete with a white board (necessity!), a couple of plants, a gigantic bulletin board, some room for a… Read full post »

So here are my other 9 memes. I think my title counts as one. (Thank you, Sally, for such a fun community project).

1. Follower v. Leader. I don't like to even supervise people. I'm not particularly good at it. At the same… Read full post »

And Hillary ain't that candidate. I don't think Clinton can guarantee that her being on the ticket brings the Dems any state other than New York (and we are getting that one anyway). Maybe Arkansas, but I don't even think that one is a given.… Read full post »

I didn't like Clinton's Iraq war vote or her supporters lecturing me about my duty to feminism. I didn't like Obama's love affair with religion or his Deaniac-like supporters who rubbed me the same wrong way they did in 2004. I was an Edwards girl.… Read full post »