We ditched our halfhearted get-out-of-town-for-Labor-Day-Weekend plans in favor of some good old-fashioned hanging out at home, which has been relatively neglected this summer. While I have loved spending time at the beach and planning elaborate cookouts, I am relieved to be spending three days reading, watching tennis and hurricane updates, and ( Read more... )

These are the lazy days of late August, when work gets slow and it seems all things are possible. I've been catching up on items way at the bottom of my to-do list and daydreaming. The work day ends at a shockingly reasonable hour and I actually LEAVE and reconnect with old friends and pastimes. Today I had both lunch AND dinner plans (unheard of ( Read more... )

It's been a muddy, mucky mental week, for no discernible reasons other than I'm on the verge of some changes at work and also, the weather. After six weeks of happily productive gym-going, healthy-eating, to-do-list-checking, book-reading, and friend-contacting, I basically now just want to nap. I'm not depressed, just awfully lazy. I'm alternating ( Read more... )

Miami, though uneventful (well, except for the fact we had to go to the cheesiest bar on South Beach), was at least warm enough to occasion the wearing of sandals. Back home again now and I'm chilly!

Last night we watched Darkon, and now The Fellowship of the Rings is on. Thinking about the two, I wonder if the continued rise of gaming is preventing ( Read more... )

I do not think it is fair to somehow "forget" that you like to watch football on TV and then "remember" again four years into a six-year relationship. I thought we had a mutual commitment to just goofing around on Sundays. Now here I am, trying to ignore the Giants game. Zero degrees in Green Bay, 21 degrees in New York. I would say hooray for the ( Read more... )

I thought the jury duty notice in the mail was a mistake, so I dug around self-righteously until I found my last proof of service. Year: 2000. (How could they have considered me an appropriate candidate to pass judgement on criminals back then? I was but wee.) Whoops. Due again ( Read more... )

Today I remembered a lot of things. I remembered last.fm and made a loopy station based on the Beastie Boys, Firewater, Jane's Addiction, Mary J. Blige, Morphine, Neko Case, Nick Cave, Prince, and Tom Waits. I remembered that Miranda July had kept a blog for a couple of months after the release of "Me and You and Everyone We Know", and read through ( Read more... )

This month is "the busy month" at work, which translates mostly into a lot of meetings and a lot of moving around back and forth between New York and Connecticut. It's nowhere near as busy as my old job could get, but just busy enough to torpedo a few of my resolutions: not nearly enough reading/writing, no museums, not enough trips to the gym ( Read more... )

The first e-mail I got on my birthday was from one of my closest friends, announcing to everyone she knew that she is looking for someone to take over the lease on her apartment because she has decided to move to New Orleans sometime in the next month (no job, no apartment, new guy). And as soon as I walked into the office, I was pulled into a ( Read more... )

An evening when I leave work unabashedly on time (but before almost everyone else) without sneaking out the back way, without deciding to fake a little more work so that I'm visible for another half-hour, is a damn good thing indeed ( Read more... )