Sadly I had abandoned Livejournal for Facebook.  There was this time, not too long ago, that I thought it could replace LJ.  There was a flurry of "notes" written by people.  25 things, etc.  What happened to that?  In intense wave, and then a disappearance.  It got people to write.  Unexpected people.  It was viral.  Little pieces of intimacy, ( Read more... )

I accumulate travel periodicals and books like a madwoman, and yet I don't really go anywhere other than long weekends here and there. I dropped a friend off at the airport yesterday (she's en route to Buenos Aires and Patagonia) and it occurred to me that I should just start going on expedia and buying plane tickets months in advance and just GO ( Read more... )

What happens when one addiction is simply replaced with another?

I bought two memoirs today:

The Wolf of Wall Street, about a stock market millionaire coke-head in the early 90s; and The Center Cannot Hold, about a law professor at USC with schizophrenia.  I've started the first one, and it reminds me of Jay McInerney and Brett Easton Ellis.  I ( Read more... )

I can't sleep.  I think it is because I've been going to bed way too early (as in, before 10 pm!).  I need to change my sleeping patterns.  The past two nights, I've woken up in the middle of the night because of mosquito bites (there are no screens on the windows in San Francisco).  I develop hives, so then I have to put on cream and Benadryl.  ( Read more... )

I am starting a new job on October 8. After a year of searching. It feels weird, anti-climactic. Friday is my last day at my current firm. I'll be a labor & employment defense attorney, SF office of a firm that started in '92. I hope it works out. Or I fear I will become really depressed about my career and chances of success at a law firm. ( Read more... )

Blue, bbq, and warm weather.

This is the best place I've been to in a long time:

http://www.score.org/success_bo_barbeque.html

I have not had ribs in a very long time.  They were delicious.  It is interesting how so many of my favorite eating experiences are in the suburbs.  ( Read more... )

How I would just like to read now.  The same person who used to not be able to get past 10 pages, could not finish a novel, is hungry for more books, having finished Divisadero and Old School.  Apparently Arundhati Roy is working on a second novel, and I can't wait.  Although it will likely be years before it is finished.  The God of Small Things ( Read more... )