asleep to awake in 4.2 seconds

After getting home late (well, almost 11 pm), showering, cooking (swordfish steak, asparagus, brown/wildgrain rice mix), and eating, I finally got to bed about 1 am. 5:17. rolled over, eyed the clock, rolled back over, instant sleep. 7:02. morning ritual of adjusting the radio from the going-to-bed station to the waking-up station. Adjusted the covers, … Read more

Crazy Busy

8:30 am – 3:30 pm law office clerking 4:00 pm – 10:00 pm commercial build out rinse, repeat, the humorous thing is the worst injury in the past three days was a wicked paper cut from a heavy card stock file folder, inside tip of my index finger -b

Here comes the Sun

Here comes the Daylight “Savings” Time again. The first Sunday of April. 2 a.m. Spring forward. “I don’t really care how time is reckoned so long as there is some agreement about it, but I object to being told that I am saving daylight when my reason tells me that I am doing nothing of … Read more

Here’s to the Hummers

The day’s gasoline prices are displayed at a service station Friday, March 26, 2004, in Chicago. Rising fuel prices affect Illinoins’ business large and small, from Bloomington-based State Farm, whose nationwide fleet burned 12.5 million gallons of gasoline last year, to pizza delivery drivers like college sophmore Dan Okrasinski, who figures he spends an hour … Read more

Dancer in the Dark

“Every morning she said, ‘I despise you, Mr. Trier,’ and spit on the ground. That is unpleasant. She could have quit. I don’t know why she didn’t.” -Director Lars Von Trier, on working with singer Bjork. This was a painful and beautiful movie to watch. I highly suggest it, but you have to be ready … Read more