BaddMinton

This morning, like many mornings, my boss sent an email announcing the presence of doughnuts in the office.  It is always hard to resist because I love doughnuts, but I also do not want to turn into a fatass, so I usually do. (resist, that is).
Well, this morning I was starving to death and had […]

So, a couple weeks ago I took a class at UCLA called "Web Design 101." I want to learn how to build my own kickass website with my own domain name so I can put my blog there. In class, we each created a simple site for learning purposes. Here’s mine: www.giraffeclub.netfirms.com. Pretty hi-tech, huh?  […]

It went kind of like this:
We leave work at 3PM and get to the party at around 3:45.  Scan the room, see nothing on the horizon but potentially awkward conversations. Beeline to the open bar.
Quickly throw back a cocktail while making increasingly less and less awkward conversation with various people at the company.  The […]

A week or so ago, I wrote a post about my lovely beach-side lunch break.  I looked forward to many happy returns, but the joke’s on me, because now that beach is closed because of this.  Grosssss.  It’s only closed temporarily, but it will probably be a long time before I’ll feel OK about walking […]

Is it just me, or are y’all with me? Weren’t we raised with the assumption that by the year 2000 we would all have personal robots? The kind that walk around saying things like “I-am-a-robot,” in robotic voices? They would do our homework, clean our rooms, and go get us Cokes […]

Let me preface this by saying I am still buzzed off a very strong French martini I had at dinner. Now, on to business:
Tonight I went to the Cheescake Factory with Jeff, Eric and Mike. As we were paying our bill, we started talking about which presidents were on which bills. Mike, who is finishing […]

Hello, and Happy 2006! I wanted to write a post today that had something to do with the holidays, since we’ve just gone through T-giving, Christmas, and New Year’s Eve without so much as a peep about it on this blog.
BUT, First I must regale you with the details of my fabulous lunch break […]