Dear Besties, I hate running. I always have. Unless there’s a pint of ice cream or a plate of cookies less than 50 feet in front of me, I’m not so much as fast shuffling. I chalk my dislike of running up to the fact that I have flippers for feet and jogging has always [...]
Entries from May 2009
May 21, 2009
Me Work New Job
Dear best friends 4-eva, Yesterday, I began my new job at Seven Days as a staff writer. Since most of the three of you have been clamoring for a blow by blow, I’m going to give it to you. Be forewarned, though. A summary of my day could be a bit soporific. Or freaking terrific. [...]
May 15, 2009
Peace Out, Home Dawgs
Dear Besties, Today is sort of a sad day for me. I woke up not being able to hear out of my right ear. It’s like half of my head is stuck in a bouncy ball you get from those big bins at the grocery store and every time I speak it sounds like two [...]
May 12, 2009
Lauren Ober, Squirrel Catcher and All-Around Awesome Human
Dear Besties, Yesterday, as I was gasbagging with my coworkers about being a short-timer here at the Free Press (yes, I am leaving. I am becoming a circus freak. I figured I have to do something with all this body hair.), I happened to see a baby squirrel crawling out from underneath a colleague’s desk. [...]
May 12, 2009
Rollerskates and Roughnecks
Dear Besties, I’m thinking of giving up my dualing ambitions of pole-dancing and tour-guiding and instead switching my life goals to roller derby. I know this comes as a mighty surprise and I’m sorry to spring this on you. I know you thought you’d see me inching down a pole at the Spearmint Rhino or [...]
May 6, 2009
Wide Like a Beaver Tail, Thick Like a Steak
Dear best home dawgs, This past weekend I left the Green Mountain State for a little bit of R&R in New York City. I know what you’re thinking- who goes to New York to get away from things? Clearly only crazy people who like lung-busting pollution, reckless cabbies and swine flu. Yep, that fits me [...]
May 5, 2009
Everyone Loves a Bitchin’ T-Shirt
Dear best friends whom I love, So for my birthday, my amazing pals the Idea Fairy and the Bombmaker made me these killer-diller tees to promote ye olde blog, oberandout.com. Yes, the very same blog you happen to be skimming at the moment. They employed about a dozen small Sri Lankan children to handspin the [...]
May 5, 2009
Let There Be Light
Dear besties, I’m not even going to try to apologize for my appalling blog behavior. How could I go so long without writing to you, my sweets? It’s unconscionable, unforgivable and other adjectives ending in -able. Mea maxima culpa. I promise this doesn’t mean I love you any less. Well, maybe just a little less [...]
