I got a quick call from A. on Wednesday while I was at work. She was on the road, trying to locate an electronics shop that she’d found in the phone book to see if they could repair some damaged video cameras, and she called me to see if I could look up directions for [...]
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What is it about a job? Seems there’s always more work to do. Well, I know that’s sort of the point. But summer is the busy season where I work, when the “single-most important item on our annual calendar” takes place, and much of the summer goes into preparing for it. As a diversion from, [...]
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I was gingerly lifting a low weight with the leg abductor when I glanced up at the television in the far corner, above the treadmills. In the “news” report, a group of women in wedding dresses were stuffing cake into their mouths, their faces smeared with icing.
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On my walk to work, I ran into Dave, [...]
[Changes: As per almost usual, this post has been tinkered with since it first went up.]
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Now I remember how I used to have time to read all of the magazines I subscribe to: the gerbil stepper. It might not work for everyone, but I can get lost in an Atlantic article about how China will [...]
Changes: This post has been tinkered with since I first put it up this morning.
I’m not about to get going on a long rant about Paris Hilton (in retrospect, this appears to have been a lie), but I just wanted to say that I agree with Christopher Hitchens that there is a most distasteful flavor [...]
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The early morning sounds are what I love best. The birds greeting the dawn. The trash truck downshifting. Bush on the radio saying that the planned “no-confidence” vote on Gonzalez is “meaningless.”
True, I guess, at least in the sense that such a vote can’t force the president to take any action, but it’s always [...]
[I added the material at the end of this post at 1:49 p.m. the same day I posted it.]
I’ll admit it, I’m a fan of the Democratic Party — but more for what it isn’t than for what it is. Here’s an example of what it isn’t: a hand-puppet for big business.
Several Democratic and Republican [...]
Bird Camp went on one of its periodic breaks (every nine days? eleven? can’t remember) last week, in which the crew decamps for two nights in Flagstaff: motel showers, restaurant dinners, check the email and otherwise get back on the grid for a while. A. stayed in camp with one of the grad students for [...]
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It finally feels as if the process of moving has begun, even though we won’t be vacating the house until early August. But, as of Sunday evening, there are half-full boxes cropping up in this or that corner of the house: books I’m weeding out to try to sell to Normal’s, clothes I emptied from [...]
Some days I feel the urge to write, but not really the inspiration.
Heck, I don’t even have any notes from Saturday.
I guess my mother and I went to the 32nd Street Farmer’s Market, and bought bread and salad greens.
I guess I fixed the corruption.
I guess we went to the matinee of Pinter’s Betrayal, at the [...]