"i'm excited to be here with you."
"you mean, in this garden?"
"yes."
"oh. i thought you meant, on planet earth."
"that, too."

I've independently told two women that they remind me of Janine Garofalo.

In both cases, they shrieked and left the room.

What am I missing!!!!!!

"oh no! did lord kama possess his most devoted devotee?!"

in our lovely magenta kitchen that now looks like a glorious mad scientist's baroque laboratory, we have, among other things, a small framed photo of a greek flag ( Read more... )

a grey hair in my sideburn. step aside, michael douglas.

( it was still a glorious sunday )

Roommate and I were talking recently (though maybe I've just been thinking about it so hard I imagined it) about the comfort of being around a lady who knows you really well in a city that you are (relatively) new to. So true. (Really, I think about the investment of information; how you find one person who will listen to you as you quickly and ( Read more... )

It's impossible to consider one's ambitions, to conceive of the future, when one has a terrible seasonal cold. If there is a denser vat of self-pity anywhere else in the universe, show me!

1. I was about to get down with a hottie (sequined slip!) with zero preamble ( Read more... )

1. Today will be my fifth day in a row sprinting around the Reservoir.

1.1 In short spurts, of course.

2. The hours the jetlagged keep resemble prayerful work. I'm tending a cloistered garden in my soul.

2.1 It's a good thing most people begin from a position of trust. Or else it would be the hardest thing ( Read more... )