http://lillowen.com Fri, 05 Mar 2010 17:04:05 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I don't know if it's the sun, which is not only making more frequent appearances, but also seems to actually emit some honest-to-goodness warmth if it hits you in the right spot in the right way, or the exciting changes and opportunities going on in the lives of people all ... http://lillowen.com/2010/03/05/wanderlust/ I woke up early this morning from a dream in which I was being forced to walk home from my first day of law school in bare feet in the middle of January.  Law school was at my high school and I was walking to my parents' house (a 40+ ... http://lillowen.com/2010/03/01/back-to-school/ Confession:  I quite enjoy Lent.  Not just for its religious implications (of which I very much grasp the significance), or the required consumption of large quantities of pancakes in order to officially kick off the season (of which I very much grasp the deliciousness), but also for the specific period ... http://lillowen.com/2010/02/24/a-lesser-sacrifice/ I recently stumbled across a website that will give you a word cloud of your blog, where the most commonly used words are represented in a visually pleasing way, with the most frequently used words in large type, and the less frequently used words in small type.  It was kind ... http://lillowen.com/2010/02/11/recurring/ We spent the weekend at my parents' house celebrating my sister's birthday, and then subsequently at the house of friends of ours, celebrating the Superbowl (and by "celebrating" I mean I glanced up periodically from the chubby face of the baby in my lap to spout random facts about some ... http://lillowen.com/2010/02/08/mutation-celebration/ People who know me well know I'm a stickler for the rules.  No, not THOSE rules, but rather the rules, written and unwritten, that make our society run as a well-oiled, polite machine.  It's why I've never had a speeding ticket, and why I get so annoyed at people that ... http://lillowen.com/2010/02/05/the-scene-of-the-crime/ I don't have much to say today except to suggest that my electric blanket breaking in the same 24 hour period as the furnace is a confluence of events that would be funny if it wasn't so COLD, and frankly one I'd rather not experience again.  The furnace is fixed ... http://lillowen.com/2010/02/01/baby-its-cold-inside/ I never got around to reading The Catcher in the Rye when I was an angsty teenager, as I believe you are supposed to, and upon discovering in university that I had never read it, my friend Dahl was shocked and appalled and insisted I remedy that immediately.  I did, ... http://lillowen.com/2010/01/29/for-jd-with-love-squalor/ Daisy, as I have mentioned before, is an all-weather sort of dog.  While she indeed spends most of the summer bringing me her frisbee in an attempt to convince me to come outside and play right this very minute, it's very urgent, the sun is shining, don't you see, we're ... http://lillowen.com/2010/01/27/seasonal-ennui-disorder/ My schedule is such that I'm out of the house rather inconsistently and also, some weeks, rather infrequently as well.  I say this to give a little context to how strange it is that almost invariably, no matter which part of town I'm in, no matter which time it is ... http://lillowen.com/2010/01/25/consistency/