Jodi Thompson
a late bloomer who started really young

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Feb.04.2009

My co-workers and I send the wittiest emails back and forth all day, mostly in response to the insanity around us. One colleague, who sits directly across from a rather offensive supervisor with an unsteady personality, had taken to referring to said supervisor as "Crazy." For instance...

Feb.01.2009

big raspberry to doritos

Someone should tell Doritos that Bush is no longer the decider. The snack chip company has, once again, gone for the crude, mean-spirited laugh in their advertisements during tonight's Super Bowl. Is striping the clothes off a pretty woman walking along, causing an ATM to spit money onto the street...

Jan.29.2009

saved by the crash

There's been a tag-you're-it thing going around FaceBook, 25 Random Things About Me. I've been "tagged" in a few that reveal to me details about people I don't know all that well. I thought for a few days about completing my "responsibility" and started late last night. At #18,...

Jan.26.2009

take this job and ...

We fully realize how grateful we should be to even have a job in this bad economic climate, but Monday morning brings a resurgence of our collective dissatisfaction with our present situation. Funny how many people can be unhappy in one office. Sad, really. We spend our days fitting in resume...

Jan.25.2009

dixie cups equal d cups

Who knew? A rowdy bunch of boys like to role play. They actually asked for more senarios. Of course, sticking a couple of disposable cups up your shirt gets lots of laughs from your fellow boys. Aw, geez. Too funny.

Jan.25.2009

put on your big boy act

In an hour or so my husband and I will venture out into the cold to our icy church office to be met by nine 12-14-year-old boys, yes, all boys this year. Our job, to teach these youngsters how to turn into responsible young men. On tonight's agenda: relationship skills. Unfortunately, the...

Dec.30.2008

adrift

I envy my older son's ability to be focused, determined and disciplined. I admire him. I have never seemed to possess that ability. I lack direction, focus and determination. I lack discipline. Oh, certainly I can muster up each of these traits for a certain project or period of time. I did...

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Dec.23.2008

the queen of inertia announces: bah humbug

It's beginning to look a lot like insanity, everywhere I go. Gift shopping is crazy. I really don't like to exchange gifts. Too many things I don't need, don't want or don't like. Just more stuff to cram into my tiny living space. I have sets of cheaply scented moisturizers, sprays and powders...

Dec.15.2008

clogged head and birthday wishes

Today was my birthday. Although I am miserably sick with a headcold, it was a lovely day. Still this congested head of mind is making it much too hard to concentrate on writing, and I miss my older son, who is away and seemed rather sad when he called. Other than that, a rather nice day altogether.

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Dec.13.2008

all that remains is space

Cleaning is hard work. Emotionally more so than physically. I can't seem to do it all at once, but only in bits and pieces. Today it was a shelf in the 'playroom' that had always been the domain of my sons. I hadn't tackled the tangled mess of hats and flashlights, binoculars and folding saws,...

Dec.08.2008

the queen of inertia welcomes baby jesus into her realm

For years I kept Christ out of Christmas. I celebrated the sacred winter holiday as secular family time. Yet to me, family is sacred. When my younger son, now a self-proclaimed atheist, was little he was drawn to crèche scenes. Years ago, when my mother was ready to part with her moss-bare manger...

Dec.05.2008

the queen of inertia boogies to jingle bells

This afternoon our office closes for the annual holiday party, but we're instructed to tell our clients we're at a meeting and give them our private mobile phone numbers. We will car pool to a local restaurant. A few poor souls, those presently - some chronically - disfavored by what I will...

Dec.04.2008

when the music stops grab a chair

My office moved again today. Only about 14 months after the last move to rented auxillary space, we're back at the main office - shoved in among the other departments. What is it about that transition time during moves when anything goes? Oooh, there's a wipe-board wall calendar in my new cubicle...

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Dec.01.2008

same time last year

This time last year my life was a mess, I just didn't know how bad it was. I not-so-blithely went through the motions, knowing in my bones, if not my brain, how bad things were. This year things are different. I know how bad my life was, finding out in a nightmare last January. Things are better...

Nov.28.2008

disappointment is my closest friend

Disappointment is often a companion of mine along the rocky road of life. The kind of friend that brings you down to his level, without mercy, dragging you through potholes and ruts. Some I know use disappointment as an excuse to not be kind to others, to not care. I refuse. I vow to remain...

About Jodi

I had no intention of becoming a writer, never thought of myself as a writer, rarely wrote, yet loved language. One of my first classes at Penn was Biography, Autobiography and Fiction with Dr. Irma Lustig, an amazing teacher. We read diaries and papers of...

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