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Category Archives: jozelle

2008 10 30 (we broke the spinning wheel already)

but jozelle is gluing it back together.

2008 10 17

i spent the day looking after my friend elizabeth’s kid ian. he’s nine years old, and extremely charming. i don’t know whether he’s been on his best behavior, or if he’s just a really easy-going kid, but i find him really easy to hang out with. right now he’s playing spyro and eating leftover pizza [...]

2008 09 11 (baby, my snake is a shark tonight)

pizza at dewey’s for supper with jo, tammie, fiona, and chris. i ate so much, but i am hungry again. i was going to make brownies, but as i was gathering ingredients, i realized that i’m out of vanilla extract. i didn’t really want brownies that badly before, but now i’ve got a mighty powerful [...]

2008 09 01 (that’s all that i need right now)

jozelle is knitting a bag out of yarn that is mardi gras colored. this is the bottom of the bag. she is trying to make it really big so that even once it’s felted, it’s big.
ate toast with tammie’s homemade jam for breakfast, potato salad for lunch, and a bagel for supper. paid the [...]

2008 08 31 (& i’ll be your downfall)

jozelle hasn’t stopped smiling since she got here. quitting her job was really good for her. she’s also gained at least a pound. we’ve spent a lot of time eating and listening to matchbox twenty.
yesterday we went to the yarn shop. there’s this orange malabrigo aquarella super bulky yarn that i’ve been gazing at adoringly [...]

2008 07 07 (do you need a character witness?)

when the subject of the book first came up, and i started talking to my agent about the deal, i complained that the year i was hired by tor was the year they stopped giving everyone christmas gifts. oh, excuse me, winter holiday gifts. whatever.
the first year i was an intern, everyone got an l.l.bean [...]

2008 05 31 (we’ll shoot back holy water like cheap whisky)

jo and i stayed up all night watching life on the murder scene and cobra starship vids on youtube.
while we were at uncle bill’s, at, like, two in the morning, she said to me, i think if we started a band it would save my life, and all i could think was that gerard [...]

2008 05 28 (give me a ladder)

when jozelle got off the airplane, she felt fuzzy, so i took her to get a tattoo. it is a heart with a torch, held together with stitches, wrapped with a banner that says STRONG. it is gorgeous. her tattoo artist was a guy named mark who was super fucking adorable.
she rolled [...]

delicious shortbread cookies. i’ve been using this recipe for years; it translates really well into vegan cookies, too.
1 c butter
1 c sugar
2 eggs
2 tsp vanilla
2-1/2 c flour
cream butter, sugar, eggs, vanilla. add flour. roll into balls. press a dent into each ball with your thumb, and put in some jam. don’t put in too much, [...]

today i had a conference call that went on for 90 minutes — but 20 of those minutes were spent watching the bandom primer. like, the kids in the new york office watched it there, and i watched it here, and we talked about bandom, and it was hilarious.
then i hung up quickly and drove [...]