OH MAN. I am so so so very much in love with auto maintenance class, ‘for women’ or not. We are well on our way to being mechanics, and soon I will be earning $11 an hour in my fabulous new career at a rapid oil change shop!! OK, maybe I’ll stick with dev work. But still! The thing I ...

Ahoy. I have returned from San Francisco safe and very crabby with Northwest Airlines. I won’t say much about it here since I will be travel-journaling, but it was awesome to catch some of the things I missed last time around, and to hang with Señor Patrikios1. When I got home, my dad said that my uncle had a stroke ...

So! Last night was auto maintenance class. Wow!! Within 5 minutes, I was in platonic-community-ed-teacher love with the instructor, a 64-year-old ex-diesel-mechanic named Bruce. Some of the girls in the class are a little annoying, especially the old woman who wants to tell us about how she used to be a bus driver. Not like you couldn’t tell that by ...

Alrighty then! Tonight all is quiet around casa de queso, and I am going to go to bed early and sleep hard. I’ve been having trouble with that lately, despite the fact that I collapse and pass out within 5 minutes of burying myself under a pile of pillows and/or cats. I’ve been having dreams. I know that’s not weird, ...