by Megan Durham | Jan 24, 2011
If you haven’t been reading Dave Kellet’s Drive, you should be. Check out the end of this Saturday’s strip:I love Sheldon, Dave’s other comic, and it’s one of the few syndicated comics that I read as a webcomic. (Dinosaur Comics...
by Megan Durham | Jan 19, 2011
About five months ago I made a mistake that’s still haunting me. I was underemployed, working part-time as a temp making just enough money to pay for rent and my auto insurance. Coincidentally, these are the only two bills at the time that required real money to pay....
by Megan Durham | Jan 17, 2011
From the ever wonderful Sheldon.
by Megan Durham | Jan 17, 2011
In order to keep these updates more uniform I’m creating a schedule. Widdershins (megandurham.blogspot.com/)will update on Mondays. Comfy Fuzzy Ninjas (This one!) will have a major update each Wednesday. Other entries will pop up as they come to me, but there...
by Megan Durham | Jan 17, 2011
UFO sightings tend to be a phenomenon of rural areas. Far from the networked cameras and the bright lights of the city, where the night sky is revealed in all its glory and where lonely roads stretch through empty fields, here strange sightings and stories...
by Megan Durham | Jan 14, 2011
I was listening to NPR awhile ago and heard an interesting discussion on how the internet is, contrary to popular belief, already being taken over by large corporations. Most people go to one bookstore for their books (Amazon), one or two places for their social media...
by Megan Durham | Jan 13, 2011
Here’s another word that doesn’t quite exist in English. The definition comes from Alexander Macgillivray’s (Twitter’s legal counsel and an excellent Internet Law expert) blog by the same name.According to pages found through google’s...
by Megan Durham | Jan 13, 2011
Hah. Wish I could find more of these! Schadenfreude is one of the few others I know.
by Megan Durham | Jan 8, 2011
And this is how I started the year! This is the Polar Bear Plunge at Alki Beach and it was approximately freezing outside when I did it. Seriously, there was ice on the freaking roads.
by Megan Durham | Jan 5, 2011
The last week has been absolutely insane. New Year’s had been declared a City Year reunion date almost since we all parted ways in the first place. And while I absolutely loved having everyone here I am kind of glad that everyone’s gone home and my...
by Megan Durham | Dec 30, 2010
Christmas back home was absolutely lovely. I spent my time running between my parents’ place and my brothers’ place, playing video games, reading books, and catching up with the sun. It’s been so long, oh bright ball of fire, how have I lived without...
by Megan Durham | Dec 14, 2010
Goodness, this trip has been even crazier than the initial security check incident foreshadowed! I’m back in Seattle now, but I’ve broken my phone, left my keys back in Tucson, and navigated a near-fifty pound box through the streets and transit system of...
by Megan Durham | Dec 12, 2010
A while ago I acquired one of the coolest self defense items ever: an extendable baton. With a flick of the wrist and a wonderfully loud ssscwinnk noise the innocuous black cylinder expands into a formidable weapon. The idea behind carrying it, and the reason why my...
by Megan Durham | Dec 2, 2010
I have discovered the ultimate cure for sadness. If you start to feel depressed or upset, there is a group of people who would love to have you. Just answer the next few questions:Do I love to dance insanely while alone in my room? Do I like to feel like a secret...
by Megan Durham | Nov 22, 2010
When I woke up this morning and saw it was snowing my first reaction was that of a true desert rat: wild excitement and joy. But a couple of minutes later I realized that I was no longer in Arizona. Everything probably wasn’t going to close down because of an...
