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I’m a very light packer yet I still ended up with what feels like a baby elephant on my back. How am I going to carry this behemoth around for four days:

I will be gone for 10 days, during which time there is a possibility that I won’t have a chance to find me […]

For our nine-year wedding anniversary on Thursday, I asked D to make reservations at Nobu. I love me some sushi, which we normally eat at our favorite local place Wasabi, and I thought it would be nice to try something fancier. When we got to the restaurant we were seated in the back […]

Putting up those ticket stubs brought back some good memories. It also made me realize how bad I’ve gotten about going to shows. I am going to see Rancid at Irving Plaza in August but otherwise there’s been quite a drought. There were times, oh there were times my friends, when every weekend there’d be […]

This weekend was very busy in a completely uninteresting way. My days were filled with running errands at Home Depot and going to Target because D needed socks and towels - obviously nothing to blog about. I kept wishing for something to happen so I could write about it. Perhaps I should […]

You should read Dingo’s blog.  Dingo is very funny.  Dingo found me in the blogosphere and we’d even been emailing back and forth for a few weeks until finally I made the bold move of asking if she would like to meet in person.  I just had to know who this hysterically funny and talented blogger […]

     Honey, would you make shrimp shumai?  They taste so good when you make them.
     Yeah, no problem, but you do realize that all I do is push some buttons on the microwave.
     Yeah, I know, but that’s one of those things that one says to get the other person to do something.
     OK, I […]

I can’t get over how fast this school year has gone by.  It feels like only yesterday I walked in the library and almost fell over at the daunting task ahead - taking this dusty room full of outdated books and making it inviting.  Or at least less dusty.  And now, today, is the last […]

“Wargasm” by L7 got stuck in my head and I couldn’t help but think how it is the perfect song to represent the Bush administration.

Saturday was the graduation for the seniors at my school.  I woke up early, grabbed the itchy polyester sack and uncooperative hood, and headed over for the ceremony.  It was kind of cool to walk onto the stage with the rest of the faculty while the students cheered.  The ceremony itself was like any other graduation, […]

Yeah, I’m still alive - I’m sure you were all worried. Not quite sure what happened in the last seven days; some sort of Memorial Day vortex. Can’t quite remember back to Thursday and Friday, though I vaguely recall sushi and plum wine. But just one glass of plum wine. Sad […]