I want one. And I don't. I need one though. Things aren't desperate yet. January will be the time that we liquidate any reserves we have and then are bankrupt ( Read more... )

Some mornings are easier than other. The alarm nags. I get up out of bed and don’t remember how. My neck is a rotten rubber ache. The light is always a surprise, no matter how slowly I turn on the light. And then, once I’m up, and the eyes are lubricated, and I’m sitting down and the lights prop open my awakeness, and I’m writing, and then I’ve ( Read more... )

check her out.

http://www.newyorker.com/talk/comment/2008/10/13/081013taco_talk_editors?printable=true

The New Yorker's editorial endorsement of Obama. Surprise, no? However, it is a salient analysis of why Obama is the man for the job (despite ( Read more... )

#1 Fivethirtyeight.com. Read it. "Electoral Projection Done Right." Skip the layman's analysis in favor of the mathematically geeked-put and amazingly accuracte polls analysis ( Read more... )

Some people feel compelled to do what they love above all else. I am not one of those people ( Read more... )

if McCain/Palin win the White House, I may not be coming home ( Read more... )

I dislike managing finances. Surprising, eh? It's made more difficult by my analytical, systemic way of looking things; this is a nice way of saying I'm a little OCD. But the level of details that type of financial management takes bores me to tears. And coming off a wedding and major move in the past 12 months things are particularly complex.

went out with good friends down in Venice. wasn't feeling the alkeyhall until my third beer (after 4 whiskeys too.) had a a great time, thanks to those who came out.

and now to london...

packing packing packing packing

tomorrow is an LA goodbye party.

then packing.

right now I am processing papers from the last month that I haven't had time to process because I've been everywhere on the weekends except LA.

and now packing packing packing.