I had a job interview today for a position that had already been filled which was strange. It was set up through Elaine, who I work with while interning at the Elizabeth Foundation. After she learned I had lost my job at the Princeton Review she made it her personal crusade to do find me some kind of employment. She is "dear friends" with the ( Read more... )

It was a very ominous week in the news. The Republican chant has proven effective, and we will indeed have four more years. Democrats are already looking ahead to 2008 for the next candidate the youth vote will leave high and dry at the last possible minute while Republicans are cringing over the homophobic vote that won them the election ( Read more... )

I guess it's official. What I have known was going to happen for three years has finally come to pass. George Bush has been re-elected fairly soundly, so we've got four more years (or so) of this ridiculous leadership. I don't know who to be more angry with; the people who voted for Bush, or the people who simply didn't vote for Kerry. Talk ( Read more... )

Sarah met me for lunch today. She had nobody to eat with in her part of town, and I'm still a bit of an outsider at TPR, so she made the trek from 53st and 6th Avenue up to Broadway and West 84th so we could get ourselves some McDonald's. If you think that sounds like a long trip for something she could have gotten at probably fifteen closer ( Read more... )

I called in sick from the Princeton Review yesterday. It was to be my forth day on the job, but the illness that sidelined Sarah for much of last week caught up with me and I called in sick to a job for the first time in years and years. It wasn't just that Sarah had been sick. Rachel, who I work with at the Elizabeth Foundation, was also sick ( Read more... )

A couple weeks ago saw the much anticipated DVD release of Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11. Sarah and I saw it in the theatre here in New York on the Friday that it opened nationwide. Both of us, two very like-minded progressive types, found the film compelling in moments, but far too snide and propagandizing to be considered good as a piece of ( Read more... )

It's getting colder in New York. Even though it was warm today, the last few days have felt less like early-to-mid October and more like early November. Apparently the change was such that Mike Jr., our building manager/landlord decided yesterday was the day to turn the heat on in the building. This will be our third winter in the city but only ( Read more... )

Tuesday was the day of the big interview at the Princeton Review. They are located in Manhattan up in the eighties. West 84 Street and Broadway. It took me three trains to get there. The F from Carroll Street to Jay Street/Borough Hall. The A from Jay Street to 59 Street/Columbus Circle. And the 9 from Columbus Circle to 86 Street. The whole ( Read more... )

There is a stick of deodorant in my medicine cabinet. Well that's where it is supposed to be, but seeing that I was the last person to touch it odds are it is sitting by the sink. I am sure Sarah will put it away when she gets home. If not, I will have a pretty good idea where to find it next time I need it. Anyhow, the brand is Speed Stick, ( Read more... )

The only dress shirt I had available yesterday had stain on the collar, so I had to reschedule my meeting. As strange as I feel saying it, all my other dress shirts were genuinely being dry-cleaned. I literally didn't have any clean clothes. The shirt that I did have, the one with the stain, is a new shirt that, aside from the minute in the ( Read more... )