Need to go to bed earlier . . . I know that. I'm trying, at least the lights in my room are off, writing in the dark, sitting on my windowsill on the 14th floor, feet on the radiator, looking out the window to the river and New Jersey. I love living by water. I need to really make the time to write ( Read more... )

Ohhhhh god ( Read more... )

and then, yesterday, I was in the VATOR with Helen Gurley Brown at the Hearst building!

Karma, baby!yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaayh!

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I am so inspired by Helen Gurley Brown. Reading her 1982 treatise (written after "Sex and the Single Girl"--1962, and "Sex and the Office"--1965) she took the helm of Cosmo at age 40, jetted it to the sexy/trashy magazine loved and hidden by fifteen-year-old girls everywhere, and, in 1982 wrote the book, in 1982, "Having It All (The Ultimate Woman ( Read more... )

So, the always lovely Professor Aaron Hamburger was talking about how you can tell so much about people by looking at what they buy when they grocery shop ( Read more... )

I'm exhausted. I've been meaning to go to bed earlier than two, because I'm just not getting enough sleep, but I forget ( Read more... )

Guys ( Read more... )

Also, this is one of those awfully self-serving entries that all lurkers can happily lean back and laugh at, but I AM curious who reads this thing . . . if you could just leave a lil' note (anonymous, if you want) it would make me happy and inspire me to more frquently update . . . also, if you are a regular reader, are there any specific types of ( Read more... )

Sometimes I want to stay up forever and write, write, write, until everything lines up and I'm just writing, not in the act of writing or whatever but just within the act ( Read more... )

The way "Under Pressure" by Queen makes your shoulders naturally slide forward, like from Miss Anne's dance class. The way the same song can come up on the radio or in a theater and do that to you, and there, looking at RIDICULOUS Ethan Hawke, you realize you're so complicit and singular in your thoughts ( Read more... )