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Parental comfort

There’s nothing like your father calling to make sure that, just in case you didn’t know, your nanny’s expected survival chances are 50%. Because you definitely need to know that right away. And it’s great that you’re coming home for Thanksgiving, because it’s not like your father’s saying she’ll be dead before then, but it’s [...]

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Religious Experience

So, when we went on our trip, we went here. I mean, seriously, how can a place like this even fucking exist? How is that remotely possible? This is Yosemite, if you didn’t know. It’s a valley carved between giant mounds of granite. A nice gift from the glaciers. The water in the river? Really. [...]

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(Though to be fair, I’d talk about it to their fronts if we ever saw one another again.) The culmination of three years of drama occurred recently with the marriage of two people I detest. These are people who have inspired a great deal of Reality Fishes. Even thinking about them still makes me roil [...]

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How to remain calm.

Hot chocolate mix + coffee + Jameson = Happy Robin. I have nothing more insightful to say than that, I must admit.

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Mmm, ramen noodles.

So, today, I found out I’m joining the ranks of the under-employed. I get severance, so there’s time to get the budget in order, but after that… In a lot of ways, this is a good thing. It means I get to just be a nanny now, and focus on trying to make what I’m [...]

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So, I’m opening a subject up for discussion: Speaking in extremely general terms, how long would you wait to have sex after beginning a relationship? Furthermore, how long would a relationship continue without sex before it would become an issue or a concern? In this equation, assume the following: There is no extreme or recent [...]

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