Month: June 2010

  • UNICORN!

    I see that the link I put in the Korean Spa entry to Unicorn didn’t work. Forgive me, I wrote that on a plane that had complimentary wifi (thanks, Alaskan Air!), and completely forgot to go back and check the link until just now. Here’s Unicorn. I can’t even click it without missing Bangkok times…

  • Live Chat with the Readers of Tomato Nation for Going in Circles

    Today! 7:30 Eastern, 4:30 Pacific… I don’t know what time that is for you Australians. Over here on Sarah’s page I’ll be live-chatting with her readers, answering questions about Going in Circles. Come join in the fun!

  • I Saw a Lot of Ladyparts and Now I’m Soft.

    So Tara was coming to town and mentioned she’d like to get a massage. I’d recently spoken to two different friends who had just come back from a place called Olympic Spa, and they both said to me, “I go whenever I can.” One of them lives in Hawaii. If you wake up in Maui…

  • Tomato Nation Read Along — Going in Circles

    Move over, Oprah. Sarah Bunting’s starting up her own book club. Her readers voted and chose Going in Circles as their first selection. They spent the past few weeks reading and today they begin their discussion in this thread following Sarah’s review. I will also be participating in a live chat with the readers of…

  • Oprah.com: Show Me Who You Really Are — How Roller Derby Can Save Your Life

    I got so excited about this I screwed up the update twice. When times get tough, tough girls get rolling. At least that’s what Pamela Ribon says. The author of Going in Circles (which she affectionately refers to as Eat, Cry, Shove) extols the virtues of roller derby, why it worked better than therapy when…

  • Lots of Seven People!

    Lots of Seven People!

    Thanks again to all these pretty people who came out to the downtown Borders in Washington, DC this past weekend. Thanks to the fantastic people who worked the store (special thanks to Annika, who I think we might have turned into a derby girl), Morgan Davidson for her tireless efforts at getting me in that…

  • My Brain is a Jerk.

    I’ve mentioned before how my dreams are annoyingly literal. I rarely have to spend any time pondering, “I wonder what that meant.” Yes, even REMpam is a Wonder Killer. How literal? Well, to be extremely graphic, I once had a dream in college where a notoriously tough professor was butt-raping me in front of the…

  • this is how sad it gets.

    I looked up the upgrade standby list for my flight today and it said: 8. RIB, P. 9. DEP, J. And for the splittest of seconds I was all, “OH MY GOD, IT’S FINALLY HAPPENING.” What is wrong with me? How many romantic comedies did I have to see to fry my brain this way?…

  • chips ahoy

    I get an email or text like this maybe once a month: [readermail]DEAR PAMIE: Please tell me the name of those chips you gave me that you said would change my life. You were right. I woke up the other day thinking about them and I am craving them like a pregnant lady. I need…

  • confession.

    dear internet. i haven’t gone to physical therapy in two weeks. and i keep going to the gym. dear internet, i am so bored with physical therapy, as it doesn’t seem to get any harder, and I don’t understand how that ultrasound thing is supposed to do anything. dear internet, i think today i officially…