So the job interview never materialized, because, as it turned out, it was for a 24-hour/week position. As nice as it would be to make a living working part-time, that's not gonna happen, so I said thanks anyway but no thanks ( Read more... )

I see it's been a very, very long time since I've posted anything at all, substantive or not. Aside from the fact that I've largely been ignoring the internet, things are delightfully the same in many ways--San Francisco remains beautiful, unsound makes me happy every day in ways big and small, the kitties are alternatingly infuriating and adorable as all ( Read more... )

unsound and I went on a really nice bike ride today, from our place out to Ocean Beach and back again, mostly through Golden Gate Park. In total, we rode eleven miles, on either flat or gently-rolling-upwards hills. I've been pretty comfortably riding back and forth to work, about two miles each way, for a week and a half or so, so this wasn't a hugely ( Read more... )

My old bike was a 1972 Raleigh LTD-3. It had no whistles or bells, literal or figurative. Its frame was steel, I think, and it weighed about 35 pounds. It had front and rear fenders with little useless reflectors. Nothing came off of it or onto it without a struggle and a wrench--no quick-release seat or wheels, no built-in ways to mount front or ( Read more... )

San Francisco is very different than Boston in a myriad of ways, but no one event so clearly illustrates this fact than the reaction of passers-by when one's physical person is blocking the only available parking space on a street.

So Saturday morning found unsound and me, waiting for our Door-To-Door containers to show up. Unlike Boston, when you get a ( Read more... )

I suspect that being a flight attendant is a lot like being a nurse; most people who aren't one themselves probably don't understand how the bulk of your skills and training involves keeping people alive when the shit hits the fan, and instead you end up spending a lot of time answering call lights and getting people water.

Je-SUS, this is a long

Were unsound and I an unmarried couple of the same sex, the University of California would be happy to consider us domestic partners and would provide him with all manner of benefits through me, including comprehensive health care coverage, starting with the very first day of my employment ( Read more... )

I feel compelled to share the conversation unsound and I had while watching the Red Sox/Yankees game on Friday night ( Read more... )

XXIII.As an unperfect actor on the stage ( Read more... )

During Easter dinner talk turned to medical issues, as often it does when I'm home and my parents have questions about various ailments[1], and from there went to discussions of drug allergies ( Read more... )