I actually got to call someone a douchebag the other day, which was satisfying as all get out.  I don't even remember the cause, but trust me, he had it coming, and I still savor the words on my tongue 

 
Life goes on here in the city.  My best friend just had a birthday.  I worked 2 12-hour shifts at the office, and the other nights I taught yoga.  Last night I got in an argument with a taxi driver about how to get me home, and exhibited my New Yorker argument skills.  I'm trying to develop some new yoga sequences and also learn new bed bug ( Read more... )

I was walking down the street today in my neighborhood and there was a guy in his 30s sitting on the ground with a little grill from a toaster oven, with some stuff on it. I walked past ( Read more... )

I was a writer once. I stopped ( Read more... )

it's most noticible in my inability to manipulate language. Something I never thought would happen to me as I've always been a talker and writer. But my words fail me lately. Example: I keep mixing up the word for sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems. It's easy to remember when I stop and think, but I have to literally stop and ( Read more... )

I am in a very strange position in my life. I am a yogi. Absolutely. A seeker. With most of the same bad habits that I had before I started doing yoga. It's part of the work, says my teacher. (Note I do not say guru. Her name is Beth. She's an American. And she is the shiz-nit-ji. But I'll talk more about her some other time ( Read more... )

I miss my favorite primate. I miss my atrophied brain before it was atrophied. What hope is there for a dark yogi princess.

Back again
Mangy's back
eat some spamThat's how it goes, right ( Read more... )

This week is a big ol' reminder from the universe that it doesn't matter what you want, it doesn't matter what you think is going on, you are a bug crawling on the cosmic hand and when the universe wants to ( Read more... )

My boss just walked by, flipped throught he Times, selected a section and then left the office. This means I have roughly 15 minutes to write to the world while he's taking a dump ( Read more... )