This is the saddest beginning to a New Year I can ever remember. My two friends here, one's tied up indefinitely, the other's recovering from serious knee surgery and will be in bed the next two weeks. She's also more distant now. We always used to talk, when I first met her, about people, how they communicate, what's said as opposed to what's ( Read more... )

When I moved to New York, I was proud to see it was not like Boston. "You got problems, I got problems, everyone has problems," my Dad used to say. He meant do not discuss your troubles. New York wasn't like that. It wasn't infected with that rotten Puritan mean streak. If something bad happened to you, it was because you had unrealistic ( Read more... )

I think I'll change the setting here to allow Anonymous comments again. I miss Smart Anonymous. Good person to talk to ( Read more... )

"We do not know how influenza and other upper respiratory diseases are transmitted," said Jeffrey Sharman, an environmental health scientist at Columbia University. "We know how they can be transmitted." --NYT, yesterday.
This is crap. When it warms up, a lot, after three cold days, like April and that is a bikini top, or December and six full ( Read more... )

Think I got it ( Read more... )

Even in our sleep, pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom through the awful grace of God.

-- Aeschylus

ISIS is not after one town, or even the control of territory adjacent to areas where they're strong --yet. They weren't after the dam this summer, either. ISIS wants control of something else.


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Our Song is, Boulevard of Broken Dreams. Green Day ( Read more... )

Girls’ snoring is cute. Male snoring is revolting. My roommate in college snored like a bastard. It was deafening. You couldn’t stand to be in the same room with him, let alone sleep, and he’d snore for up to twelve hours at a stretch on the couch, because he’d been up for two days prior which is another story. He fell asleep during a party ( Read more... )

Better to get back over here. I start enjoying Facebook too much, I start talking in my own voice. Not advisable ( Read more... )