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My cell phone is alive again. I suspect I have 50 messages or so, which I'll be getting to as best I can over the next few days.

Occasionally, not all the time, but occasionally, I have the best freaking job in the world ( Read more... )

All Persons Bulletin ( Read more... )

"At the end of knowledge, wisdom begins, and at the end of wisdom, there is not grief . . . but hope ( Read more... )

A vignette, as it were ( Read more... )

Today I itched all over, and the air was warm. I walked this evening from 183rd street, along Fort Washington, then green Riverside, and finally down 9th to finally come to rest at the Skylight Diner on 34th street. About 150 blocks in three-odd hours, during which I thought and floated and made resolutions and listened to old favorite songs that ( Read more... )

I am selling a shiny new hairdryer. I'm selling it because I bought it thinking my old one was broken. Behold, I was wrong, and now have an extra. It was $18, and I'll give it to anyone interested for $15. (If details are your thing, it's a medium-sized Conair Ionshine. I didn't know this. I just took it off the shelf at Walgreens at random ( Read more... )

University of Sydney MFA Class of 2008.

I cried when I read the email. No more waiting game.

I blatantly stole this suggestion from Bear after following it myself to hilarious results. But he is fuzzy and will therefore forgive me. Try this.

Go to "Get Directions" in Google Maps.
In the starting point field, write "New York, New York."
In the destination field, write "Paris, France," and get the directions.
Read number 23.

Have a lovely