good news for me, since Japan isn’t a four hour plane ride away anymore,
but I still need my yearly stock of grey shirts and brown notebooks

and goldfish-catching games

“In the psychoanalytic theory of transactional analysis, many types of passive-aggressive behavior are interpreted as “games” with a hidden psychological payoff, and are classified with names like “Why Don’t You…? Yes, But…”, “See What You Made Me Do”, “Look How Hard I’ve Tried”, and “I didn’t do it on purpose, I forgot or it was […]

I know I’m not supposed to acknowledge things like self-googling or looking up site stats, but I do both, quite regularly (and thank you you 11 people who come here every day to see how I’m doing!  thank you!!!  what would you like to see more of here?).  and I’ve noticed that just about every […]

if this is any indication.  is it a real indication?  is it an anomaly?  what is this, other than depressing?

I got it into my head yesterday that I should walk from Bethesda to Adams Morgan, to see what interesting things turned up along the way, and so I did it, and there were many interesting things, including a teeny tiny Filipino grocery store in Tenleytown.

I went inside the store and got all teary because […]