This is just a little experiment, to vacuum up some of the dirt that's been flying around LJ lately. Please ignore any and all comments to this post.

I am personally astounded at the behavior of supposedly rational meteorologists, leaders and emergency service personnel. A week that began with hints that a hurricane was considering a rare northern track turned to what I can only call yellow journalism ( Read more... )

You know when you leave a message for the doctor, and they just never call back? It's like the socks that disappear in the dryer. Sooner or later, some of them have to turn up, possibly in someone else's laundry basket ( Read more... )

Literally. There are a bunch of people on my block yelling, "Save our aides, save our children ( Read more... )

The other day, I was taking the bus home. And it was the bus from Hell. Late, slow, crowded, filled with weird people, loud, etc. But the ride was made bearable (or at least darkly amusing) by the Man Who Beat The Bus (then beat the bus ( Read more... )

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Weekend before Thanksgiving. Leon and I are contemplating going. Anyone else? If we do go, there'd be space in our room.

I was just cleaning the cushions of my couch (not for the first time!) and I found a Suffolk Community College day planner, with a whole bunch of ads in it.

It's from 1983.

Written on the chalkboard outside my office:

Lost Sandal
Please let in math department

I don't even know what that means.

Who's up for hanging out?