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    I'm a journalist who spends my Mondays through Fridays writing other people's stories, a chronic procrastinator who needs structure. I once quit my job to write a book and like most writers, I made up excuses why I couldn't keep at it.

    My boyfriend fiancé husband Joe (and new baby Henry) like to sleep in late on the weekends, which means I end up browsing celebrity tabloid websites while our dog snores under the covers.

    I created Lance to better spend that time. I thought maybe it would jump start a second attempt at writing a novel.

    I'm itching to get The Move On, as my dad likes to say. I'm 26 27 28 29 and I'm afraid if I don't start now, I'll get caught up in something else.

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Archive for February, 2010

In appreciation of what I do for a living

24 Feb 2010

Most of the time I take what I do for granted. I think it comes with the job, or at least eventually it does. In the beginning, I used to get high off the fact that people told me things for no good reason other than I was a reporter and they were being asked [...]

Every girl needs a little black pug

20 Feb 2010

We attended the Sarasota Pug Parade today. If you’re laughing right now, that’s OK. It’s something us pug owners are accustomed to. We’re loons. We dress our pugs in costume and force them down a catwalk. The event is such a draw I’ve met pug owners from as faraway as INDIANA. The parade, which began [...]

The TV exploded and my husband cried

17 Feb 2010

This is a true story. And the only reason you’re reading about it is because it’s been resolved. Let me start it by saying Joe is sitting in front of our new 55-inch Samsung flat screen television watching last night’s episode of Lost. The look of contentment on his face is something neither I, nor [...]

Timmy Ho’s cracks down on crybabies

09 Feb 2010

My beloved Canuck coffee chain has banned a man in Canada for repeatedly being a pain in the ass. The CBC News story describes the dude as a “coffee enthusiast” who after complaining several times about receiving burnt decaf coffee, was banned for life from a Tim Horton’s in the province of New Brunswick. You’re [...]

Strange things are afoot at the Circle K

08 Feb 2010

I found these yellow receipts a couple weeks ago stuffed in a paper bag in my car’s glovebox. I was so totally confused as to where they came from that I stared at them for a minute, studying the name of the convenient store –– Circle K. And then I started laughing because my favorite [...]

At least when voice mail piles up it doesn’t collect dust.

01 Feb 2010

I’m a recovering pack rat, but sometimes I regress. Tonight I transcribed 14 saved voice mail messages dating back to 2007. It was as much a practical exercise as it was a display of my neurotic compulsion to document everything. I have no space left for voice mails and text messages. My mailbox is always [...]

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