Went to a German Christmas Market at a small Lutheran Church on the Upper East Side this morning (Germantown in Yorkville! Adorable, elderly German expats! Who knew!). Had a blast (and two glasses of Gluhwein.). Bought german Christmas cookies, Stollen (two, actually!) and a Best of Air Supply CD (shut up! it was a dollar! at a church fundraiser! ( Read more... )

PBS has an online poll posted asking if Sarah Palin is qualified. Apparently the right wing knew about this in advance and are flooding the voting with YES votes ( Read more... )

Listened to my cd of Puccini's Turandot (great recording with Sutherland, Pavarotti, Caballé and the London Philharmonic) while making grilled salmon with a pomegranate-citrus glaze and drinking Vinho Verde ( Read more... )

Somehow, kind of out of the blue and quite unintentionally, I managed to weave myself into some sort of a itchy-uncomfortable-ugly-sweater gloomy frame of mind. In what will most likely prove to be a vain attempt at unpicking and perhaps even lightening my mood I wanted to tell you about something that makes me happy ( Read more... )

Argh ( Read more... )

When the reboot button doesn't do it for you, all you are left with is ( Read more... )

Still a little bit off. Not that I expected it to go away from one day to the next, but you know.

Turns out, Freud bores me. Or maybe that's not it, maybe it's just that I am not engaging with the text for some reason. Totemism and Taboo is something I've read before and am, overall, pretty familiar with the topic. I might not necessarily agree ( Read more... )

I've been pissy lately. Not at anyone in particular, or perhaps simply at myself. Mostly, I think, it's stress. Although, really, there doesn't seem to be that much to stress about. Except. Except that I have barely three weeks of classes left and haven't even began really thinking about the final paper. Except that we invited M's parents to my ( Read more... )

It's all kinds of amazing that I woke up this morning to a call... FROM CHINA ( Read more... )

Ohmigod!

The Puppini Sisters are amazing!