Everything is new. I'm in a new apartment and a new neighborhood. A totally new totally scary job. I'm living with my partner, who is not new, but this part of our relationship is new. Even New York feels new, but so comfortably familiar ( Read more... )

Last weekend I went to the Holocaust museum. Still can't really talk about it, but I was quite traumatized. Understandably so, of course ( Read more... )

I have a little over 2 weeks left here in MD and I have not been writing according to plan. Of course, I also have not been going to museums and cultural things according to plan. I think the last thing I wrote about was just about the last thing I did that was cultural. Since then I have been to Miami and NYC, mostly in a frenzy of getting ready ( Read more... )

The 4th of July was a beautiful sunny day. Of 90+ degree weather. A good day to go wandering, wouldn't you say ( Read more... )

rachellll came to visit DC and her cadre of friends and I was lucky enough to spend a whole weekend with her and her hubby. We had a lovely dinner on Friday (in a restaurant where we were the youngest adults by about a decade) and were just waiting for our check when the lights started going on and off. When I peered outside, the debris on the road was ( Read more... )

I have finally ventured to some culture ( Read more... )

Went to New York last weekend, so no lofty cultural events. But I did go to an awesome party on a boat. There were togas - nuff said ( Read more... )

Big news out of the way - I'm done with grad school, I'm looking for a job, I have a summer internship at the NIH so I'm living in the DC area ( Read more... )

The first thing that struck me was the verticality. When one's formative years are spent in Miami and then in NYC, mountains are utterly unfamiliar and city streets that dip and dive are shocking (especially to those unused to parking on them). The second shock is the nature nearby - not that there is nature, but how close it is and what it is. The ( Read more... )

When people talk about birth control, they generally mean the pill. The birth control pill was a revolutionary invention for its time and really brought about the idea of having some control over one's reproduction (if, when and with whom). But there are other forms of birth control that can be just as important ( Read more... )