Life

  • Ack!

    It is such a bad feeling to wake up and notice that you forgot to set your alarm clock and that it’s over an hour later than you normally wake up.   The initial panic subsides a little when you realize that a) it’s only an hour and ten minutes later than the normal time for

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  • It Keeps Me Running

    From a 5K to 5 miles, my longest run ever, which I completed last night.  Woo hoo!  Damn, I love my Nike+iPod! 10K, here I come.

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  • The Weekend in Pictures

      From top to bottom:  1) The Lovely Miss Katie and her sister Jenny at he birthday dinner at ‘inoteca; 2) a dragonfly at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden; 3) we convinced Jeff to stay in town so that we wouldn’t have to drive upstate (thanks, Jeff!); 4) after drinking wine in Jenn & Carolyn’s backyard

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  • Just Catchin’ Up

    First of all, in case anyone was wondering what was up with yesterday’s post, Vox is a new blogging system that’s in previews right now.  I’ve been playing around with it — let me know if you’d like an invitation.  Not sure I like the way it displays here on TypePad when you cross-post, though.

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  • Back on the Chain Gang

    Just a quickie post before heading off to Delaware for the weekend.  Saw the Pretenders last night with Rob Y. at Roseland Ballroom.  All I’m sayin’ is that I hope I can rock that hard when I am Chrissie Hynde’s age.  I have one more week of craziness and then I’m of to Hawaii —

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  • The View

    Derek was kind enough to invite me to a barbecue on the deck of a yacht he had rented for his family to stay on while they visited New York.  Between the ferry commute and the view, it almost made me consider living across the Hudson.  But then I came back to my senses. Am

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  • A Subway Scene

    Scene: A crowded, unairconditioned subway, drenched (from the torrential downpour and from sweat) on the way home from the Philharmonic concert in Central Park (thanks, Teddi, for organizing!).  I am with Gabe, a friend.  We’re chatting the whole way about this, that and the other thing.  We’re both standing for a chunk of the trip

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  • The Numbers Game

    I was reading "The Taming of the Slur," a recent article in the New York Times about the use of the word slut — essentially how it was overused to the point that it really didn’t mean so much these days.  The article was very interesting, but I read one statistic in it that nearly

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  • Another Two Minutes Towards My 15

    This morning, in my pre-caffeine fog, I found myself standing next to someone in my office cafeteria.  "You look familiar," he said.  Well, yeah, I thought to myself.  We work in the same office.  It’s big, but not that big.  "Do you write for Gothamist?"  "Yes!" I replied.  We introduced ourselves and I went on

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