I do not have it in me to be without electricity another 24 or so hours … I just don’t. I realize this is totally an “advantaged white person” kind of fear, but people who love me know my idea of roughing it is pretty much a 3-star or less acquired through a rare Priceline [...]

I’ll be there tonight for the finals, which will air on ESPN at 8 p.m. Looking to liveblog, will definitely be posting updates to Twitter, so click on the blue birdie above to follow me there. Anybody who truly knows me knows actually witnessing a National Spelling Bee in person has been a dream of [...]

If anybody needs me, I’ll be beating my head on my desk. Fail. (Thanks for this to my eagle-eyed cousin, who spotted this in Morgantown today. Good work, sister.)

So, it was decided between the two of us that digging the car out on Sunday afternoon was far, far preferred to trying to dig the car out at 7 a.m. Monday when you’ve got the additional pressure of having to get to work. Bundled up, we shuffled down four flights of stairs to the [...]

So, this is what being snowed in is all about, I guess. All day, I’ve watched people try to drive around in this, and I’m mystified. Your Chevy Cavalier was not designed to handle nearly two feet of snow, no matter how pimp your rims are. Watching the news off and on all day (with [...]

So, this was the view from our Malaysian balcony at about 10 a.m. I don’t know what these people mean when they talk about global warming. I mean, this kind of snow? In Malaysia? What the hell? According to my friends at D.C.’s NewsChannel 8, where the TV’s been firmly parked since 7:30 a.m., the [...]

I looked to my left today and noticed the juxtaposition of this pile and smiled to myself, knowing all was exactly as it should be in the world.