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there really is no place like home, and this weekend gave me the tiniest taste of what it might have been like for folks like my friend patrick when the hurricane wrecked the city. for some stunning photos, check out www.thefullkit.com ( Read more... )

Top ten business "writing" peeves:

5. Unneccessary "quotes"
4. Capitalization Of Important Words And Conjunctions
3. Verb inventionization
2. Comma, but, not really needed
1. Which book told us to how to decide which/that, that was poorly written?

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I'm getting to see a davey, though under unfortunate circumstances. dp's mother is in the hospital. my grandmother is in rehab "with crazy, drooly people." Please, stop with the unwell ( Read more... )

about yesterday, despite being really sick and still at work, was in a big meeting of top managers. after a sobering discussion of the possbility of flu outbreak, things got very tense. one suit asked whether this concern was mostly due to avian flu, and the chief doc said yes, but that he was unsure whether it could be transmitted from human to ( Read more... )

"We arrived in Melaka (Malacca) to the usual fanfare of bellowing touts, looking to take us here or there for an exorbitant fee. We muddled our way into town and began a long search for a guest house with a vacancy. We went to several cool old converted Peranakan homes, but came up empty handed. Finally, we found a vacancy at the Majestic Hotel, a ( Read more... )

After watching The Graduate this weekend, I became intrigued by something other than my usual Dustin Hoffman fixation (the squatness! the hairy legs! the awkward mumbling! my kind of man). Soon Peter and I were puzzling over the bizarre midget bellhop theme so prevalent in the 70s/80s. Are midgets more entertaining in uniform? Is it to make the ( Read more... )

Talking to Peter last night I figure out I also don't know my Pacino from my de Niro. We spent a pretty hellish evening at the mall, blurry-eyed and by the end sort of lamely touching, looking at things without taking them in, having lost all sense of drive and just wanting it to end. Merry Christmas ( Read more... )