Sometimes you don’t realize that it’s the end of the month, and get caught off guard by the AM radio DJ’s as happened to me this morning. It’s especially pronounced on these silly 30-day months, I think. Anyway, I hope your June was as enjoyable as mine was. Especially this past weekend. On Saturday I [...]
Archive for June, 2008
26 Jun
Someone’s getting mailed to Abu Dhabi
Well, it happened. I got a second cat. Meet Lucy: (Potential nickname change pending.) She was my neighbor’s cat. Six or seven years ago, she was found as a kitten, curled up in the backseat of my neighbor’s friend’s car, having crawled through an open window. The friend had to give her up when she [...]
24 Jun
Default, the two sweetest words in the English Language
US Masters swim meets are scored by age groups, so instead of competing against the entire group of participants, you compete against people your age. Being in the 30-34 age group is kind of a bummer for a new swimmer like me. Most of the girls in that age group swam in high school or [...]
23 Jun
What do you call a deer with no eyes? No eye-deer.
I’ve always been a fan of deer. Deer hunters piss me off. How can you shoot such a majestic creature? The way they hop through the woods, so graceful. Sure, it’s a little scary when they dart across the road at dusk, but seriously, that’s our fault for building roads through their land. That’s how [...]
20 Jun
Swimmies
I won’t be around the internet today or this weekend, because I’m on my way to Vermont for my second ever swim meet! Hooray! Finally, a way to quantify all my hard swimming work! At my first meet in March, I swam in 3 whole races. This time, I’m swimming in five, and, as I’ve [...]
19 Jun
Happy Birthday Birminghaaaaammm!
Back in August of 2003, I got a job as an unpaid production assistant on an independent feature that was so bad, it will never see the light of day. A few weeks into pre-production, I met Birmingham, who was hired to be the film’s art director. During the month of production, he spent most [...]
18 Jun
Thirteen, Fourteen, Fifteen, FLIP!
Last March, when I had my first swim meet the same weekend as the great blogger meet-up, NPW, Stefanie and Lara came to watch me compete not drown, quickly. After my race, one of them (I think it was Lara?) asked me what I think about while I swim. I didn’t have an answer to [...]
17 Jun
All quiet on the Tannenbaum Front
Ever since the heat wave of last week, things have been super quiet in my life. I’m in a bit of a rut, or a routine if you will. Wake up, go swimming, go to work, go home, watch a DVD. Sometimes I’ll throw a little gardening, yard sale, or a trip to New Jersey [...]
16 Jun
UPDATE
Since I was yard sailing all day Friday, I completely ignored the internet. Nothing personal, of course, it’s just good to get away every once and a while. If anyone spent the day wringing their hands, wondering the fate of my stuff, I’ve got one thing to say to you: get a life. But even [...]
