Unknown Feed- An error has occurred; the feed is probably down. Try again later.
-
Recent Posts
Archives
- March 2026
- February 2026
- January 2026
- December 2025
- August 2025
- March 2025
- October 2024
- August 2024
- June 2024
- March 2024
- February 2024
- July 2023
- February 2023
- January 2023
- December 2022
- November 2022
- October 2022
- September 2022
- August 2022
- July 2022
- June 2022
- May 2022
- April 2022
- February 2022
- September 2021
- August 2021
- July 2021
- April 2021
- March 2021
- January 2021
- November 2020
- October 2020
- September 2020
- August 2020
- July 2020
- May 2020
- March 2020
- February 2020
- December 2019
- November 2019
- October 2019
- September 2019
- August 2019
- July 2019
- April 2019
- February 2019
- January 2019
- December 2018
- November 2018
- October 2018
- September 2018
- August 2018
- July 2018
- June 2018
- May 2018
- April 2018
- February 2018
- January 2018
- December 2017
- November 2017
- October 2017
- August 2017
- July 2017
- June 2017
- May 2017
- April 2017
- March 2017
- December 2016
- November 2016
- October 2016
- September 2016
- August 2016
- July 2016
- June 2016
- May 2016
- April 2016
- March 2016
- February 2016
- January 2016
- December 2015
- November 2015
- October 2015
- September 2015
- August 2015
- July 2015
- June 2015
- May 2015
- April 2015
- March 2015
- February 2015
- January 2015
- December 2014
- November 2014
- October 2014
- September 2014
- August 2014
- July 2014
- June 2014
- May 2014
- April 2014
- March 2014
- February 2014
- January 2014
- December 2013
- November 2013
- October 2013
- September 2013
- August 2013
- July 2013
- June 2013
- May 2013
- April 2013
- March 2013
- February 2013
- January 2013
- December 2012
- November 2012
- October 2012
- September 2012
- August 2012
- July 2012
- June 2012
- May 2012
- April 2012
- January 2012
- December 2011
- November 2011
- September 2011
Categories
Meta
Category Archives: Uncategorized
field exercise 1
Go to 2 different Starbucks. Try not to order anything. Take note of the activity around you. Describe the customers. What do they look like? Are they alone or with others? If alone, what are they doing? What are they not doing? If … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Leave a comment
in trouble, again
i seem to be not getting away with things the way i once did. like things that would go by unnoticed are now starting to get noticed. a speeding ticket in Oglesby Illinois that I forgot to pay 2 weeks … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged arrest, budget, fabrication, Illinois, Oglesby, site visit, speeding ticket, state accreditation consortium, trouble
1 Comment
blur
a blur of a day that i can scarcely remember, except for finding one really great parking spot. one of the best in years and years. i hope they will let me stay there, even just for the night.
black friday
massive layoffs at work last Friday, that i just learned of today. i’m not quite sure how i survived, considering i’ve only worked there a few months and the people who were fired had worked there considerably longer and actually … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged black Friday, doors, firings, layoffs, modus operandi, safe landing, senior management, survivor's guilt, trouble
Leave a comment
today’s piano teacher
i had a very lengthy piano lesson today with a man who told me within the first 5 minutes of meeting him that he often felt lonely. but when he read or heard about people who faced far more difficult … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged 3 Stooges, Andy Griffith, Aristotle, comedy, loneliness, Opie, piano lesson, piano teacher, Poetics, running late, tragedy
Leave a comment
in my shoes
before i knew it, i was in mid-downward flight to the carpet outside the men’s locker room at the gym. i had to break the fall with my elbows and wrists. And I had to look up, disgraced, as onlookers … Continue reading
mass
it’s becoming a bad habit. every Friday night after work i wander off to some classical concert, indoors or outdoors, and each concert always seems to feature a mass. And i get all excited, thinking… this will be so cool. … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged amen, Beethoven, Friday, mass, rapture, Schubert, singers
Leave a comment
screened
another extremely clumsy job interview today. i am not sure exactly what took hold of me, but this voice, foreign to my comprehension, was speaking through my body. the interview was with this recruiting firm for nonprofit organizations. i applied … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged body, eyes, foreign, ingratiating, job interview, recruiting firm, revenge, screening, soul, voice, weather
Leave a comment
$1295 / 2br – Great deal on this spacious 2 bed in Prime East Lakeview! (Chicago – Lakeview)
finally, the drought has ended. the smiling and laughing drought. 2 days in a row. the first was yesterday, playing music with some friends, one of whom handed me some sort of lap steel guitar. we played “Moon River” and … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged apartment, Craigslist, drought, lap steel guitar, laugh, Moon River, smile
Leave a comment
assertiveness training
lately i keep encountering situations–at work, at places that are not at work–where people are telling me i need to be more assertive in how i communicate. and this makes me angry because i don’t feel as if i am … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Leave a comment
special relationship
i was asked by this performance/live art collective to respond to a weekly series of prompts as part of a dialog between American and British artists that will culminate in a 12 hour event in november. this week’s prompt: Using … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged Blair, Bush, clouds, pleasantries, special relationship, tea-time, television, Tunisia, Wisconsin
Leave a comment
fewer pineapples
it’s oh so tempting to delete yesterday’s post, but i don’t think i am allowed to do that here. technically, i am allowed, but morally, ethically, i cannot give myself permission to delete. one can’t go out and about in … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged apartment hunting, bourgeois, budget cuts, car, clothes, food, gym, hair, hedge fund manager, internet, patron, patronage, travel
Leave a comment
the ideal
hour and hours obsessing over that elusive ideal apartment in this town. will i never be satisfied? that’s the question? compounded by my desire to live in a totally different region of the country. i guess my hopes of getting … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Leave a comment
Jonah Complex
the sky tonight was so purple. this lush purple that was both comforting and threatening. the kind of purple that draws in a certain type of person, such as myself. maybe walking into this sky is like swimming into the … Continue reading
The Lost Pedestrian 