Ev asked me what's up with me and music lately and the most accurate thing that I came up with is that I feel like an amputee scratching at a phantom limb.

So, our lease is up at the end of July. A while back we talked with the landlady about staying in August. And about signing a new lease, but subletting it while we're in Northampton. She was all, "yeah." Then, she was all, "maybe." Then she was "No, probably not," then, "Well, maybe, let's talk." Then we talked, and she was, "No ( Read more... )

Did my sweetheart bring Swine Flu home from school? Did she get it from her mom? Stay tuned for exciting updates from the frontlines of the most major illness to hit anywhere, ever!

I rode thirty miles so that I could race a twenty mile race. Then I hopped back on my bike and rode thirty miles home.

On my way to work, in the rain, I came upon a schoolbus-v-bike incident. Fortunately, the rider fell off the bike before it got sucked under the bus's wheels. She was only scraped - it could have been a lot worse. I stuck around to help out, collect witnesses ( Read more... )

i'm writing something, a piece of fiction, and spending some serious brain energy outlining and sketching it out and starting to figure out some of the prose and stuff, and it's butting in to my work time. hmmm.

I don't know if this is on your radar screen, but Shell is about to go on trial in Federal Court in NYC for complicity in the deaths of Ken Saro-Wiwa and other Nigerian and Ogono organizers in the early- to mid-1990s.

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/05/07-7<

I don't like riding my bike in the rain, especially when I'm a little bit tired from racing last night. So, with drizzles this morning, I abandoned tentative weather-dependent plans to ride out to a race in NJ after work this evening, and took the subway to work. I don't mind it, since it's two pretty quick, direct trains, and I get to read a ( Read more... )

How am I this hungry? My metabolism must be on fire. I ate a huge bowl of granola this morning, and an apple. Three carrots, a banana, and an apple when I got to work. I just ate a burrito with cheese, tomato, and spinach in it. I've had a liter and a half of water in the past couple of hours.

And I am famished.

What?

Not that you should ever pay any attention to what he said, but Rush Limbaugh called Obama "the greatest living example of a reverse racist."

Wow.