Humor

  • Roadside Attactions: Corpus Style

    So, you’ve won your bet and you’ve found yourself planning your trip to Corpus with one of your former college roommates.  Sure, you could go see the USS Lexington, the beach, the botanical gardens or even the aquarium, but why stop there when Corpus (and the surrounding areas) offers so much more? All you need…

  • Miss Beth’s Guide to Email Foreplay

    I’m an email junkie.  I love my email.  I love checking my email.  I even secretly love flipping through the spam folder to see what promises of hidden viruses and financial windfalls from third world countries await me.  I love the knowledge that the only thing standing between me and my dream Dubai vacation is…

  • In the Cards

    Reaching back into the dusty archives of my brain, I realize there’s still maybe a story or two that I haven’t written down (and a quick search on the Mess reveals I’m not too far off on the actual count).  I know, I know, if I just went outside and interacted with people instead of…

  • Toast Masters: Recap

    Ok, so I lied to you. I promised a recap on Thursday and I didn’t deliver. Those of you who know me well enough probably weren’t actually looking. You are well trained! Let me start by saying I didn’t actually join on Wednesday. I discovered a loophole – a loophole that allowed me to attend…

  • Toastmasters

    I’m not a public speaker, which comes as no surprise to my friends and family. I prefer to be that anonymous non-speaking blob in meetings praying we don’t have to perform any icebreakers or group skits and repeating my name in my head so that I won’t forget it if I’m called on. A few…

  • Milestones

    We’re a world filled with milestones or rite of passages or atta-girls-way-to-go or whatever you want to call it when you’ve managed to accomplish something a little more exciting than consuming oxygen. You know those special occasions where only a Hallmark money holder card can properly express “yay”. There was the first birthday – well,…

  • Friendship

    Lately, as I spend more and more time interacting with people online, I’ve been thinking about the nature of friendship. What makes a friend a friend versus an acquaintance? When does an acquaintance make that transition to become a friend? I obviously can’t speak for everyone, but I think I can identify a criteria that…

  • The Listener

    I had lunch with “the guys” earlier this week – former co-workers that helped make one of my many stupid jobs bearable. These are “the guys” who call me by my first name (and get away with it, because there’s no point fighting it and if I whine, they’ll only post the whine on their…

  • I Can Has Cheezburger

    Somedays, I need a little I Can Has Cheezburger pick-me-up. From their archives…

  • Why I Won’t Be in Your Wedding

    Please note: I didn’t title this one – “Why I won’t be in your STUPID wedding” and despite that, all of my friends saw the title and collectively gasped about the subject. See, they secretly believe (and some are not quite so secret about it) that I can’t write a post that’s not specific to…