He knew a guy who got the The Black-Scholes equation tattooed on his forearm and she knew another guy who did the same thing, and dated him for a while. They were both half-full of stories about their respective guys but didn't want to go on about during a dinner where the guests were too young for that ( Read more... )

once, a french oak tree died and nobody noticed. then one day it fell on a house, and broke through the ceiling where a group of college kids happened to be sleeping on the floor ( Read more... )

Why brain no good
Why can't spell or complete full sentences
Why no new ideas and no interesting thoughts
Why ugh just

We were at a rooftop party of a rich Chinese girl who was in love with the son of a famous architect who looked like Kramer from Seinfield. She was walking around barefoot with a bandage dress on and pouring tequila directly into peoples' mouths. I think she was trying to act nonchallant so Kramer would notice her, but he didn't and never would ( Read more... )

I'm going to write this here so I don't forget it: While waiting for the operating room to be ready, the nurses read to me what happened the last time I gave birth. Apparently a lot. I had an emergency C-section, they couldn't get the spinal epidural in my back for over an hour, and by then, they had to just hurry up and cut the baby out. I lost a ( Read more... )

Let's see, what has happened in the last month.

Had another baby

Moved to my moms house

Fired a postpartum nanny

Moved back to my own house

Esme went to daycare for 3 days and came home with a cold.

Cold became fever

Paul gets a fever

Baby gets a runny nose.

Sent Esme home to moms. Mom gets fever

I get fever. Dad gets fever. We are start ( Read more... )

We live down the street from this perennially hip Italian restaurant where people with very considered outfits go on dates. It's often the backdrop of paparazzi photos. I like to go there with my baby and ruin people's dates. We were there this weekend and Esme was waving and blowing kisses at people as is her favorite hobby right now, and this ( Read more... )

There's this writer, a friendly acquaintance eI've always admired. I've thought of her often over the years, not just because I enjoy her writing, but over the ten plus years I've known her, I really admire her way of living.

Until recently, she was single and living alone in a little rented house not too far from me. We missed each other at ( Read more... )

The contractor quit in a fit of rage, and I sat inside and snuggled Esme. The contractor is from Shijiazhuang, which always reminds me of that song by Omnipotent Youth Society, the way the singer sang thirty years of Heibei factory worker existentialist life straight into my heart ( Read more... )

My in-laws are very nice, very courteous, very arms-length Hong Kongers. I think the problem is, they don't drink. They never get to let loose, everything's always bunched up in there, unless once in a while, their son, my husband's brother, starts singingor something. Then my father-in-law cries ( Read more... )