Magazine mad

November 22, 2007

I love magazines but I hate paying full price for them, so I have devised a number of ways to avoid this fate (which ranks somewhere in my books between eating a sandwich and watching a gory movie): I subscribe to one magazine (and save 72% off the cover price, or something like that according [...]

Good bye fall!

November 21, 2007

This is the lovely scene that greeted me this morning—lovely fluffy snow. Everywhere. It’s so pretty and if it stayed off the roads and driveways, and landed only on grass and trees, I wouldn’t mind if it was snowy all winter, especially since snowy days are often milder than the days when we are treated [...]

Stop, thief!

November 21, 2007

I witnessed a shoplift today. A guy walked past my store, toward a kiosk of board games and grabbed something that looked like Jenga blocks. I thought it was weird the way he grabbed it so quickly, but then he walked towards the cash register so I thought nothing of it…until he kept walking and [...]

Running Report: Day 6

November 20, 2007

I should have run on Sunday but it ended up being a nine hour workday for me and I had some writing to do for an interesting opportunity that I was applying for and this task took precedence. I was physically exhausted and mentally shaky, and despite my best efforts to produce high quality writing, [...]