Month: May 2002

  • Unexpected

    I had two “terminations” yesterday at my volunteer gig, i.e. people who decided that they’re done with therapy. This can happen in several different ways. The most popular, by far, is when a client just stops coming. They cancel several sessions and then don’t reschedule and that’s kind of that. This is called “getting fired”…

  • Notice Anything?

    Well, hello! Spruced up a bit, didn’t we? Well, I have a confession to make. I didn’t design this template or anything (click on “design” over there if you want to see who did). I was just so sick of Red and White. I am not so much into the flashy website thing, as you…

  • Hippie to the Hippie to the Hip Hip Hop

    I know everyone is just so excited that it’s Outdoor Festival Season here in Seattle…even though the sun just refuses to come out, thereby lessening some of the pleasure, in my opinion. However, you’re excited anyway because you know I’ll be giving you the down low on every outdoor thing I go to, right? Well,…

  • Anniversaries I Forgot

    Warning: This is long. This is about friends and their weddings. With details. If you don’t like either or both of those things, well, check back in a day or two, when I surely will be ranting and wailing about being jobless, or how my tummy hurts, or how it won’t stop raining in Seattle.…

  • Tummy! Be Good!

    Well, now, see, I was going to write a cute little entry like this one, all about how to go to the street fair with your sweetie. It was going to look something like this. You know how I do: Eat an elephant ear Carl never knows what these are, for some reason. I told…

  • I! Am! Very! Anxious!

    Okay? Is everyone paying attention! I’m quite nervous, over here! About my work life…or lack thereof! About my love life! About how I’m not eating much lately, yet I continue to gain weight! Yes! A little twitchy, me! Well. That was cathartic. On to other news, also known as “I Have, Simultaneously, Too Much Going…

  • A Day Late, But My Mom Is Still Great

    The first thing you should know about my mom is that she (probably) won’t even be mad at me for not writing about her until now. She thinks it’s great she can read me anytime she wants…because she’s the kind of mom who always asks to see the papers I’ve written whenever I’m in school.…

  • ”Meet You At The Pig”

    That’s what you say when you’re meeting someone at the Pike Place Market…you know, in all the movies about Seattle, the farmer’s market where they’re throwing the fish around? Sometimes people who live here go there too. Here’s how: Get on the bus. Bring a your boyfriend’s copy of The Stranger with you, and have…

  • Getting Worried

    Well, I just got a call that the Large Mental Health Agency to which I applied and at which I interviewed on Friday doesn’t want me. “We really liked your energy, and we’d like to keep your name on file.” Hmm. “I really like you as a friend, but I’m not ready for a relationship…

  • Quaker Meeting

    Attention: “Chiara’s Boyfriend” is now most accurately spelled T-O-B-E-Y. Just an update, for those of you following along at home. But as you may have noticed from the title of this entry, we won’t be discussing his adorable lopsided smile or his entertainingly googly eyes today, nor the little butterflies in Chiara’s stomach that appeared…

  • A New Feature

    Well. You will all be happy to know that there is a new feature here at Ampersand. Formerly, you scored a mention on your birthday or your anniversary. Whatever. Don’t look at me because you have this weird need for attention. But now, if you come to visit, you will not only get a mention,…

  • Spot of Brightness

    Yay! I just got back from a really good job interview. I’m not going to tell you all about it right now because I don’t want to jinx it, but I just wanted to state, for the record, that it’s been quite a while since I felt this excited about anything work-related at all. I…