The Snail Shell

For example, the one inside me. Today was almost traumatic. I went to this job fair, right, the "@pgh.cafe" which is a lame name...

God damn! I was just job searching, and I ran into a few old friends. Specifically, these old friends: Only this time, they weren't at...

I've been thinking about deleting this. If I have to post just to post, then the blog is becoming another burden on my time, and has ou...

Bought: One hat- I found a hat! It's great! It's made by a company called "Country Gentleman." Half wool- better than n...

A certain company, which I will only refer to as "M.S.", described themselves on the EOC website in this way: "Strategic part...

Rock on. They won the Super Bowl. Way to go, dudes. The NFL is completely arbitrary. A few guys (supposedly the best in the world, but wh...

- laughed harder than I've laughed in a long long time. We played Sardines in our apartment. Grubb hid under Joe's mattress. It w...

Not too great a day today. I felt two strong emotions, which was kind of nice because it brought me out of a rut, a little bit, but not rea...

This story isn't as good as the Sufjanesque title that I gave it. I get off my Greyhound bus and went to look for a cab. They had all j...

Tonight: another bag of vegetables, a batch of whole wheat bread, and some chicken curry. Damn. Doesn't sound like so much, but it too...

Okay, so I made 4 bagels, a batch of tabbouleh, a bag of vegetables, and a bunch of roasted garlic. Not really that extensive. Unless you ...

1. This fleecey synthetic vest that I have, that I got for Christmas from The Backpacker's Shop in Sheffield, Ohio, and which is therefo...

I have 2 finalists: 1. Mountain lion (or puma, if you will)- he doesn't take crap from anyone. He is very fast, doesn't have to wor...

For increased clarity. So we all create these little systems to give ourselves rewards. It's almost like we're rats in a maze, but ...

Back in high school, everything was easy. You believe in Catholicism, you do good things, you go to mass on Sunday, you go to heaven. I me...

I just did! Paid my parents back for the ski trip and sent a bunch of money to be deposited in a Roth IRA and a mutual funds account. What...

A Great Idea: So I'm reading the newspaper, and some lady mentions she was at a "clothing swap." I had never heard the term, ...

1:30pm- Wake up, feeling pretty good. 2:00pm- Eat some eggs and pancakes, suspect that I ate too much 2:30pm- Lying on the couch, stomach hu...

I tossed my skis in the rack on the side of the gondola and climbed in, the seventh one into an eight person car. I was in the singles line...

No, seriously. Some people like nightmares better because then you wake up and they're over, and life is so much easier/nicer by compar...