Monthly Archives: June 2004

An Evening of Sleep

I spent the entire evening on the couch. I had intentions of getting stuff done for work, but ended up watching a lot of West Wing and sleeping, off and on. Lately, I’ve felt more introverted than I have in a really long time. At day’s end, I want nothing more than to get back

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Where They End Up

Saw a balloon, floating on the Chicago river, as I was walking home. I guess this is one possible destination of where all those balloons go when you let them go. Whenever I chance to see a balloon just floating along in the sky, I always wonder whether someone let it go accidentally, or on

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Walking Home

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Writing

by William Allingham A man who keeps a diary, paysDue toll to many tedious days;But life becomes eventful—thenHis busy hand forgets the pen.Most books, indeed, are records lessOf fulness than of emptiness.

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Better. Best. Bested.

Damn. My annual Ten Best Days list is fast approaching, and I haven’t even started to sift through the past year. Any suggestions?

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While Waiting for the Train This Morning

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One Neighbor, Nine Cats, and a Promise

Walking to get some beer, I came across a woman leaning against her fence and about three cats lying around on the sidewalk, immediately in front of her. I stopped to pet one of them, and joked about it being a cat party. The two of us fell to talking, and that’s how I got

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westwing++

I bought season 2 today. Yeah, I took a picture of the cover. Yeah, I posted it on my blog. SHUT UP.

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I weep for our species

I bought some storage boxes from Target yesterday, and this is on the inside of every lid.

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Alex and Linda Visit

Alex and Linda were visiting this weekend, and a bunch of us got together to have a late brunch at Hilary’s Urban Eatery (HUE), a nice little place on Division, just east of Ashland. En route, I found this. It’s really nice to see the graffiti kids encouraging literacy. Hilary’s. This was the first time

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