My earliest memory is the image of my mom, dad, and sister going down the stairs as I stand in my crib. Then it skips a year or two ( Read more... )

• Working at JTS full-time as of today. Learning ProTools on OS X.
  
• Taking two classes at NYU this summer, discrete math (starting Monday) and classical mythology (starting in July). Registrar quipped they go together like oil and vinegar. Did he mean oil and water?
  
• Physical therapy twice a week. Diagnosis: Everything.
  

That much has me booked ( Read more... )

This Tuesday night, nekton ran into a high school crush. Meanwhile, my roommate Eddie met an old crush of his whom he hadn't seen in about two years. On the same night still, I saw a girl who once besmote me, whom I had not spoken to for two years and one week.

I boarded a half-empty uptown
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"MY NAME IS \"JDBGMGR.EXE %1\"";


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You can't always get what you want you can't always get what you want you can't always get what you want but if you try sometimes you might find you just might find you get what you need.

Can you guess what the mint-tint plywood of the MYSTERY OBELISK belies?

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The Laughing Cow pack
in new, defiant bright type:
"A French Favorite".

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The poetry of D.H. Rumsfeld.

Abstract: Finish this poem for me.
Grand Prize: An invaluable Gotham souvenir.

Pick up at the pi.

Monk's Morning Pages

Cries, 'twas restless!
(Be pour coffee he rote.)
Burt, then bike Ross.
Lie bell by the supple
    sack of rice. Across

The worden table,
That unfinished carpenter's π

I used to write music using a program called Noteworthy Composer. I couldn't play an instrument, but I was a voracious listener and very interested in using the ideas I had. Over the course of a few days, logging 3 or 5 or 14 hours work, I would fill in staves note by note until something I could live with was produced. Though I tapped some ( Read more... )

The FTC imposed 11-digit dialing on New York City this year: Manhattanites must dial 1+212 to reach their next-door neighbor. Mmkay, so I called my doctor's office today, with 11-digits, & the lady says I must hang up and dial with one-plus-area-code. I did. I did it again. Same message. Third attempt, I dialed only seven digits, and the call ( Read more... )