recently i came across my old blurty blog, and had a good time reading through my entries. for someone who forgets things a lot, it is nice to have this documentation, especially for my travels. reading my old journal made me want to blog a little more than i have been, so i'm going to try to be better at updating this thing. plus, i am -still- ( Read more... )

so it is halloween again. i am currently 'enjoying' halloween from my bed, since my body can not manage to adequately fight off the cold/cough/crap that has been floating around. i cant say that halloween is my absolute favorite holiday (that honor would go to christmas), although i enjoy dressing up as much as the next person (possibly more if ( Read more... )

some people are lucky in love. some people are lucky in money. some people are lucky in employment. most of us are a hybrid of all three, depending on the time in our lives. i dont want to jinx myself, but i seem to have some luck on the home-finding front. the apartment i live in now was the first and only apartment i looked at in nyc. i liked the ( Read more... )

well, i was in portland oregon last week and am heading to frankfurt, germany on monday, with very little turn-around time. feels a bit like 2005! both are work trips, doing different type of work than when i was traveling before. i'm going to frankfurt to attend the world's largest book fair, the biggest event in the industry. being a book nerd, i ( Read more... )

while i am mourning the loss of summer (RIP), i decided to review the summer activities i was looking forward to in an earlier post, to rate how this summer went ( Read more... )

in quaint new england towns, the approach of autumn is signaled by brilliantly colored leaves falling from trees, creating new crunchy landscapes underneath your feet. red, orange and yellow streaks across forests and fields haphazardly, as if by a child's paintbrush. you not only feel fall in the briskness of night walks home or the addition of ( Read more... )

thanks to everyone who offered their opinions on the mac v. pc issue. if anyone is interested, after extensive research i ended up ordering a MacBook (today, so I dont have it yet). What attracted me was the dual operating systems (two computers for the price of one...), the fact that there is MSOffice for Mac, making the file convertability w/ my ( Read more... )

eevn though i'm a day or so late, i wanted to post a happy birthday shout-out to caslab -- hope you had a great birthday! cheers to you! i found myself back in florida recently, regaling friends with stories of late night visits to dr cioffi and naked cards. hopefully you and sarita can make a nyc trip one of these days. happy late birthday! (oh ( Read more... )

mac or pc?

i really feel like everyone in the world can find a new job except for me....