i have come to terms with the fact that my phone number is one off from Time Warner Cable's customer service line, but that doesn't mean i have to be polite to wrong numbers at 1:48 AM. Who did she think she was going to talk to in the middle of the night? I was still awake anyway, but i made like she woke me up because she deserved it.

last night i saw don pasquale at the Met (v. funny, making up for the lack of really good music) and just barely made the 11:30 ferry. no sooner do we all get settled than they come over the loudspeaker and say that we're being held because a passenger is ill. the scary thing is, by the time they all got their thumbs out of their asses and got ( Read more... )

you know what i love about baking for myself? if i were to, hypothetically, bake one of my hairs into a pan of brownies, it wouldn't matter!

ok, Kansas, you need to get a clue. there's a pattern emerging here, wherin you make a retarded decision in some area of education, the rest of the country laughs at you, save Pat Robertson, and then your ( Read more... )

when i move away from new york, i will miss getting wished "happy holidays" on Purim.

what kind of cosmic bargain would i have to make in order to never stub my toe on a coffee table leg or door jamb again?

yesterday was a banner day - not only did i finally get into grad school and therefore back into the NPS, but also the NPS saw the demise of its fearless leader, Gale Norton. frankly, i don't care why she quit (though the abramoff scandal is delicious), i'm just glad she's gone ( Read more... )

well lots has happened since my last update so i'll boil it down to a few major plot points for now ( Read more... )

• Watching figure skating is like watching a horror movie for me, and we all know how well i do with those. With skiing or speedskating or bobsled, you have three options, you're fast, you're slow, or you fall over. With figure skating, the announcers know everything you're supposed to do and get the viewing audience all jittery about it. ( Read more... )

isn't this a Jesuit school? how embarrassing

I finally got all the snow adjacent to the house shoveled and wouldn't you know, within an hour, the city finally showed up and plowed the street, so i had to do it all over again. I know i'm in one of the outer boroughs, but it started snowing Saturday at 3 and we didn't see a plow until Tuesday at ( Read more... )

It's not supposed to snow like this in New York! Last week i hardly had to wear a coat and now i'm shoveling 2+ feet of snow. The snowstorm here was the biggest in recorded history in NYC, with a hair under 27 inches in central park and more out here on Staten Island. Sunday morning, between 9 and 10, we got four inches of snow. Even with ( Read more... )