To all you nice people who’ve left comments in the past week or so:
I am very sorry for the sluglike approval of said comments. Some unresolved email issue foisted on us by our upstream provider meant that I wasn’t getting emailed when comments got stuck en file d’attente, and I’m too big a doofus to […]

Wanna feel like the biggest dork ever? Do like I did at CVS and, while attempting to sniff the shampoo you’re considering whether to buy, pop a blob up your nose. Talk about smelling, like, sodium laureth sulfate.
Baffling: the poster in the window of a Harvard Square health food store that says “Designer Whey.” (I’d […]

Anu Garg’s A.Word.A.Day has been featuring terms derived from Latin, and today’s is one of Editrix’s favorites.

Been hard to focus today as I think about the bombings in London, how horrible it must have been to be trapped underground in the Tube with the chaos and smoke and general hysteria and confusion. There’s a hard knot of pain in my stomach that has nothing to do with the wonton soup I […]

Hi, how’s it going? I’ve sort of forgotten how to do this, or why I ever thought it was a good idea in the first place. It’s been way too easy these past several weeks to throw myself into whatever work at work needs working on, or play some very silly Internet role-playing game as […]