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My project has been nominated for the highest award in Dream Job. This is a very cool thing and I hope we win, but because of this I have to attend a black tie dinner event Wednesday night at the Natural History Museum in [...]

On Saturday we decided to go tour the BBC studios with Melissa and Jeff, as they had flown into town for the weekend.
It was one of the only events that we had planned as it wasn’t too long a visit, and anyway Angus and I became the least interesting part of a visit to England-Melissa [...]

It’s the 27th of January.
The 27th.
Important for any number of reasons, unimportant for any other number of reasons, but to me, the 27th rings of a memory to me. A big one, a life-changing one.
It’s three years today that I sat in my upstairs bathroom, the one with the yellow wallpaper patterned with white [...]

You know that scene from Sleepless in Seattle, when long-haired Meg and her fiancée are sitting on the bed together going through a routine of various unguents and health-care rituals before turning in? How coordinated and perfect the entire movement is, like synchronized swimming for the somnolent?
Yeah.
That’s us.
Since coming back from San Francisco with [...]

Monday night I slept like a fucking rock. It was called melatonin and about 3 hours of sleep in 36 hours. When I woke, I felt amazingly refreshed, so much so that I thought I’d fully recovered from the jet lag.
Jet lag is a temporary disorder that causes fatigue, insomnia, and other symptoms [...]

Thursday morning my dear boy dropped me off at Heathrow, and about a thousand kisses and waves later, he was on his way to a meeting and I was on my way to Statia and her Meester’s house. I had to check my bag in as I was taking the big suitcase, crammed as [...]

Tuesday I went to the IVF clinic for one last test (but that’s what they always say, it’s always one last test. Then I get a phone call asking me to come in and donate blood when the moon is in Aries or participate in a Hopi fertility dance or some other weird shit [...]

On the way from from Dog’s Trust yesterday I found that the GPS gods directed me through Basingstoke. This was convenient as I needed to pick up more of my contact lenses and the shopping center in Basingstoke was where I was stupid enough to have my prescription. So I drove into the [...]

Two things occurred yesterday which gave me pause in my current thinking, which temporarily hid my blackened color walls with purple wallpaper-it’s still dark, but it’s different. The outside world is still cruel and evil, but for a while there was something to take my attention away. One thing I’ll write about tomorrow [...]

So the weekend came and went, and now I sit here in my usual space-in front of the pc with my work email open and my headache present. I swapped Bird York for Howie Day this weekend, as once I heard the lyric “Even the best fall down sometimes” I thought, Howie? Let’s [...]

I’d meant to be more upbeat today, after all I made it about ten hours with no tears. That’s got to be worth something, right? Ten hours of no crying? I think that’s something worth noting. I finally dried out.
But then I get an email this morning, one from my father. [...]

There are 5 stages of grieving, or so say those bastards with shiny degrees from places I have never heard of. Since, you know, everyone’s grief has a pattern, a form, it’s all the same. Grief is generic, we can just fill out the form in the DMV. Name? Helen. [...]

On Monday I went from London to where the IVF clinic we are using is. It was a quiet drive, taking less time than it usually does through the maze of roundabouts, and I made it there in about 20 minutes. Once there I walked through the long hallways, passing many elderly there [...]

We’ve been busy trying to book up accommodation and activities for our upcoming holiday. The Cook Islands, while have two islands rated as one of the top 10 most beautiful islands in the world, is apparently more of a ‘honeymoon gazes and wine-soaked afternoons in a lagoon-side hammock’

There are some days when I miss living in the States-the heat and light that came with living in Texas. The wet windy weather that Seattle brought on a near afternoon basis. The sea grasses over the sandy azaleas in North Carolina.
I know I chose to leave-I know I live my life in [...]

As I sit here drinking coffee and battling a major headache, I realize it’s that time again. Although I think I can get by it every month, I think I can escape the onslaught, the despair, the pain, I never do. It’s as though I am beating my head against the wall, realizing [...]

So they say that we should all have resolutions to start the new year. The clock chimes midnight, and suddenly everyone has a sparkle in their optimistic eye. This is why I have to book up all my yoga classes through the end of June 2007 now, as suddenly it will be packed [...]

I love to travel. With the exception of the motor marathons I used to take as a kid, where we would drive between one grandparents’ and anothers’ between Christmas and New Year, often with me squished between two seats playing with Colorforms and wondering when I could have the feeling back in my lower [...]

30 January 2006
Coming Clean Is Hard, Even With Irish Spring
Aidan’s kids were here this weekend, his nearly 14 year-old daughter and son, who turns 9 in a few weeks. They’re good kids-they can drive you a little crazy when they’re cranky and tired, but then again adults can drive you crazy when they’re cranky and [...]