Archive for the 'Drummond' Category

Drummond and I have decided to move. We’re trying to reduce our rent. I guess you could say our priorities have shifted in the last year. Over the last couple of days, we’ve been combing ads on Craigslist and driving around neighborhoods we’d like to live in, preying on “For Lease” signs. We’re okay with [...]


Last Friday Drummond and I made the sojourn up to Dallas to visit our relatives. It was an especially big weekend for me, as my family came back from Germany after living there for two years. I saw my Dad last month, but it was the first time I’d seen my Mom since September and [...]


At a wine bar recently:
Me: “If you could have dinner with any three people, living or dead, who would you choose?”
Him: “You go first.”
Me: “Okay. Carrie Brownstein, Thomas Jefferson and Katharine Hepburn. Your turn.”
Him: “Malcolm X, John Adams and Audrina Partridge, naked. OW!”
Me: -I frowned and scowled at him.-
Him: “Okay, you’re right. I’m sorry. I [...]


Reality bites.

11May09

I have a confession to make.
I’ve been reading Twilight.
I know. I KNOW. First exercise videos, now this. Where has my indie street cred gone? I’m blaming this latest personal slip-up on peer pressure.
I’m almost done with the first book and while it’s not a superbly crafted piece of literature, author Stephenie Myer does an amazing [...]


On Thursday night Drummond and I got a call from Nielsen TV Research. We thought, “OH my God! That’s so cool we got selected!” and then this immediately turned into, “Holy crap, do we watch too much TV?”
The researcher on the other end of the phone asked me a few demographic questions and then he [...]