Painfully Obvious.

I’m missing the first day of SXSW Interactive because I’m in Dallas, Texas, to watch my cousin Eric get married this evening. Tomorrow morning I will wake up whenever the cock crows, run out the door, and get into my car. If the gods smile upon me I’ll be back…

I had a whole entry typed up before I left for Thanksgiving. I swear I did. I know not where it went. To prove how much of a dork I am, I wandered around The Container Store last week for about thirty minutes. It was my first time inside said…

Writing from my new apartment, now that my seemingly interminable flood of stuff‐to‐do has slowed to a trickle. Cable and internet are hooked up, everything is more or less where I want it, and I cooked my first meals in the new place today — I’d put off grocery‐shopping until…

My job search is something I haven’t talked about much in my journal. The superstitious part of me, tiny though it is, was worried about jinxing it, I suppose. But now it’s too late to jinx. I’ve been offered a job at BMC Software‘s Austin offices. I don’t remember what…

I spent much of today at work imagining the total destruction of my hometown, so I announce with great relief that most of New Orleans has been spared the worst. It’s not yet known how much our neighborhood flooded, and it likely won’t be known for at least a couple…