Mixed Moss

So my normal Thanksgiving just got thrown out the window. My dad got violently ill tonight. Apparently he has the flu.
Fact: The three categories of people recommended for the flu vaccination are: the elderly, the children, and people with asthma or immunosupressive diseases.
Fact: I have asthma, but due to the shortage of flu vaccinations this […]

Thanksgiving is here and I am at my parents’ for the week-end, like the dutiful daughter, bringing pumpkin ice cream and other such-like from Graeters. Tonight I have done a mountain of dishes so that tomorrow we can have a fresh start before creating another mountain of dishes. Joy. The dishes are ordinarily my sister’s […]

I want this guy’s job.
Spy who came back from the dead
Giles Tremlett in Madrid Tuesday November 16, 2004 The Guardian
Spain’s most infamous spy returned from the dead yesterday, five years after his sister published a death notice and paid for the monks at a monastery near the central Spanish city of Burgos to […]

I’m weird. I understand this, accept it, and– on good days– embrace it. Most of my friends are weird; they run the gamut from geeks to dorks to the slightly odd.
But there are some people who defy my standards of weirdness. Well, here at the Rohs St. Cafe, on Friday and Saturday nights we occassionally […]

I am a confirmed GE brat. Indoctrinated at an early age. I was raised in a GE household. Every single one of my father’s paychecks since before I was born has come from GE. Except for clock radios, which division they sold off a long time ago, I buy all of my small appliances and […]

I love U2. They have some of the greatest songs. They came out with another sweet one called “Love & Peace Or Else”. My favorite line: “As you enter this world I pray you’ll depart with a wrinkled face and a brand new heart.” They are so dead-on about some things and I love their […]

Well, this day was suitably wretched, but I’m pretty sure I did decently well on my Econ exam so all was not a complete loss. I have survived!
Now I’m going to go get some well-deserved dinner.
Deep thought for the day:
You know how anything that has sugar in it– even things with good sugar, like fruit […]

I didn’t see any night…
Gah…have snatched a few restless hours of sleep, have no time to wash hair, cannot find kerchief or ballcap to wear over hair…must go to class…must study for exam…must turn in clearly erroneous homework & project…ooo, definitely must brush teeth before I do anything else…On plus side, have fallen in love […]

This is for all of you crazies out there who have forgotten how, when you are in college, the amount of sleep you get and number of meals you can actually sit down while eating is determined by the whims of your profs, and are indulging in false sentimentality about the good ol’ days of […]

Hello. Your friendly neighborhood consumer reporter here. Your coffee’s fair trade, your tea’s fair trade, your chocolate’s fair trade, but what about your engagement ring?
OK, ladies. A lot of girls I know are probably going to be getting engaged sometime in the next several years. You know who you are. And you’ll expect a diamond, […]