Yeah. a meme. but a fun one! Here's what you do--

Tell the listening audience a memory of me. Whatever sticks in your mind or you want to share.

And then post the query to *your* Journal...

Rejoice! The bear has returned!!

(thanks, alice, I really missed him. And if i can avoid the flake-out monsters, i'll write you a letter soon).

my grandfather died

My grandfather is killing himself. I'm not sure if he's doing this on purpose, or because he's a careless old man, but he is ( Read more... )

On tuesday I finally did something that I've been meaning to do for a while -- visit the providence Atheneaum. Kate Schaefer and Josh Braslow, if by some strange coincidence you're reading this -- consider this an apology for being a crappy pledge ( Read more... )

I'm alone in my office right now, after waiting for about a half hour for someone to come and unlock the door?

Where is everyone else? at a fundraising event for John Kerry.  And I'm stuck here.

Understand that this is RHODE ISLAND.  Presidential hopefulls don't COME here.  In fact, we are one of only 3 states that President Bush hasn't visited ( Read more... )

I’ve been carrying Matzah around with me in ziploc bags all week, subsisting mostly on fruit and leftovers from my families Seders. People express their sympathy, and while I sometimes like to complain, I’m joyful and proud ( Read more... )

It's 3:15am and I am, sadly, sober.  This was to be an evening of revelry, but, alas, I was working until 1:30am.  At least it was for a good cause: working at the Gate to raise money to send people to the March for Women's Lives (the march formerly known as the March for Choice).

So, it was an evening well spent, though it would have been more ( Read more... )

What an interesting week it has been. I have had only limited access to a dinosaur of a computer so forgive my long and belated update.

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3/31/04 ( My birthday )

It's nice to have a healthy dose of spontaneity in one's life, so I hopped the metro to union station and caught a local train to Fredericksburg to see a friend that I hadn't seen in a good couple of years.  After a brief phone call at a quarter to 11 that ended with "ok, i'll see you at 2:28" I left DC.

( we wandered though a town written for fairytales and one-hit-wonders of primetime sitcoms )