“So, this is the four round?”
“No, it’s the three round.”
“So it’s not the four round.”
“No. It’s the three round.”
“The three round.”
“Yes. The three round.”
“Not the four.”
“No.”
“We did four already.”
“Yes.”
“So this is the –”
“Oy, just DEAL …

An inauspicious beginning
It’s hot, again. Brutally hot, again. “Like living in the convection-current animation from the as-seen-on-TV food dehydrator commercial” hot. Aaaaaaa-gain. We went to an outdoor concert last night and drank too much beer; …

Last night, we bowled. And when I say “we,” I mean about twenty people, and when I say “we bowled,” I mean we bowled the hell out of that alley — at one point, we …

I didn’t have Halloween plans yesterday — or, more precisely, I had plans yesterday, but not of the Halloween variety. I’d gone to Bean’s legendary Halloween fete the night before, kitted out as Zombie Jackie …

Sears 1, Sarah’s dread of having to deal with buying an air conditioner 0
And thank God, because I had a terrible experience the last time I bought an air conditioner. For starters, in my old …

Before I get to the entry proper, I should warn you that it’s 1) a stream-of-consciousness thing and not terribly polished, and 2) one of those writing-about-writing-type things, and I try not to subject y’all …

You have the beginnings of a cold, and after pressurizing and depressurizing twice in the air, you’ve gone deaf in one ear, and when you get off the plane, you almost hit your head on …

Sarah: Okay, here’s my problem.
Wing Chun: Hit me.
Sarah: Well, actually I have a whole bunch of problems, but they’re all kind of under the umbrella of one very large problem.
Wing Chun: I see.
Sarah: Which is …

Sarah: Hello?
Couch Baron: Hey there! How’s the hair?
Sarah: It’s…it’s not good. It’s just not good at all.
Couch Baron: Uh oh. What happened?
Sarah: I walked in…I got shampooed…I sat down in the chair…and then everyone learned …

Regina: Hey, what’s up — ack ack ack AAACK!
Sarah: Hi, nothing much — what what what what?
Regina: I just — erk! — have to disentangle these — guh! — wire hangers from themselves — ACK! …