I had an amazing experience today at my sister's mother-in-law's beauty parlor.  :)  Sis, 4.5 yr old niece, Mother-in-law and I went to get hair and nails done.  Blossom (your overly typical jewish mother-in-law) gets her hair washed and set once a week at the salon.  This week she brought her extended family (us) with her.  I was a little worried ( Read more... )

The trip down to NY was smooth sailing, with only 1 pit stop.  Pretty amazing for a 4+ hour car ride with 2 children under 5 years of age!  Turns out my sister's in-laws do not live in the 20th century, let alone the 21st century (no internet, cable tv, or even a microwave), so connecting to the world was going to be a challenge.  I think it may be ( Read more... )

i will be woken up by my nieces in less than 5 hours, and yet here i am posting to lj. hmmm... who's smaat? yeah, that's right.... me.

anyway, the last 36 hours have been pretty awesome... starting with tonight and working back..

* had a fabulous time at steve's birthday show.
* packed in record time for a week in NYC with unknown ( Read more... )

in the shower this morning i was thinking about an old friend, qbaz, who is currently experiencing some pretty serious medical issues. i am hoping to be able to visit him in the hospital sometime in the next week when I'm in NYC, but that means having to reach out to someone i haven't talked to in a while....

qbaz is one of many friends that i haven't kept ( Read more... )

Today I walked to work because I wasn't sure when I would leave nor when the snow would start to fall and although I bike throughout the winter, I tend to avoid riding on snowy and/or icy roads.  I left work as the first snowflakes were falling from the sky and realized I needed to go to the pharmacy - before tomorrow... So i went home and got the ( Read more... )

i finally finished the website i've been working on and it's only a day an a half later than i aimed for (which was actually a couple days earlier than the real deadline).   it's the first website i've put together since oh, about 1995,  ....  so be gentle.. :)

check it out here: epo.mit.edu

i'm asking because i can't seem to spend more than 10 minutes (and that's being generous) on any one thing. i'm blaming my migraine meds. this is a known side effect. :( grrr. and of course there's a big project at work that needs to be done by thursday.

here's to a week of stress and cranky mags.

I can't begin to count the number of times my dad has volunteered his time and traveled to work as a doctor in some place of need, but for boasting sake let me try to at least remember some of them...
1) addis ababa
2) a reservation
3) moldova
4) new orleans
5) villages on the amazon
6) tibet
7) south africa

today i got an email from my mom with a ( Read more... )

i've been so out of touch with everyone and everything lately.  i haven't been skating a lot and have had a lot of derby related issues anyway, so i'm feeling pretty out of the loop there.  i'm working long days this summer and find myself spending my nights with very little energy to go out.  i don't spend my long days in front of a computer much ( Read more... )

there's a roller derby bout this saturday!  it's a double header.  i'm skating with the Boston B Party playing CT Rollergirls and the Boston Massacre is playing Cincinnati Rollergirls.  info here and tickets here.

you don't want to miss me knocking girls down, now do you???  ;)

-xena paradox