If the Red Sox can come back from 0-3 and beat the damn New York YANKEES and actually make it to the World Series for the first time in 86 years, despite superstitions from a "curse," then I know the future President John Kerry has every chance of winning the election...
The manhunt is over. What does that mean? Well first of all, I and my therapist of 11 years have once again realized that the idea of a relationship is terrifying to me. I recognize yet again that I expect being in a relationship to cause me to prioritize my...
And to anyone who hates Bush but doesn't think Kerry is a good option either: Pull yourself together, ya candy-ass liberal. You want Bush out of office? Kerry's the only option we've got, so unless you want to pledge your allegiance to the Texas waterboy, suck it up...
Scraping around in another depression triggered by my ongoing lack of a boyfriend, I saw my therapist earlier this week. We realized halfway through my session, that as depressed as I get about not being in a relationship, deep down, I don't really want to be in a...
[Refers to earlier post about a Simpson's episode in which Homer is jobless and watches tv all day, including the Channel for the Unemployed.] Other programs that might be shown on The Unemployment Channel besides "How to Win the Lottery": "Dressing for Excess," "The...
Finally, the sun has stopped! We have had such sunny weather in Chicago, for weeks now, that I grew tired of it a while ago. Why this relentless, bright weather? Every day, every day clear skies, clear skies. I'm serious. If I wanted sunny weather all September long,...
Depression is partly genetically determined: you inherit it from your parents. I'm serious. Depression is a mental disorder that has a chemical component and you have to be biologically predisposed to it or it won't manifest. That's why people can undergo the exact...
Am I just incapable of falling in love? Is it possible that this is the one problem that I can't solve, no matter how much money I spend, no matter how many approaches and techniques I try, no matter how many decades I work on it? I've been dating since I was 15....
Tonight I spend the evening in Wicker Park at these excellent events: The Sheathens perform as part of Estrojam 2004! Tuesday, Sept. 21 6:30 p.m. at Filter 1585 N. Milwaukee Ave. (north/damen/milwaukee) And then I'm going to see - Nice Peter Tuesday, Sept. 21 11:00...
CNN on the Emmy Awards last night: In a mild surprise, James Spader of "The Practice" won best actor in a drama, defeating "The Sopranos' " James Gandolfini and "Without a Trace's" Anthony La Paglia, who were considered the category's favorites. Spader's character is...
In his retirement, my father (an almost-68-years-old, 5'6", quiet Mexican American man) has developed the tradition that every autumn he takes a trip to a part of the world he has never visited (my mother doesn't like to travel. Like me!). He chooses the country in...
I was officially "discharged" from my last job, which means fired. It's okay. It's happened before, it might happen again (why not?). Here's how I've been doing. Discharged I curl myself around laziness twirling my time through sunny days and sleeping in celebrating...
(See yesterday's post for the Garrison Keillor piece I'm responding to.) So maybe Election Day comes and we've done our absolute best and the worst happens anyway: Bush gets a second term. Maybe (as Garrison Keillor says in his article below), the concentration of...
The following was written by Garrison Keillor of "The Prairie Home Companion." It appeared in the August 26, 2004 issue of In These Times. We're Not in Lake Wobegon Anymore August 26, 2004 Something has gone seriously haywire with the Republican Party. Once, it was...
The following text is from the Third Wave website. I'm just passing along the information. Third Wave Scholarships Know of any young women of color (30 and under) activists, cultural workers, artists, etc. who are in school either part time/full time who want to apply...