January 2010
1 post
Best recent URL mistake
While trying to go to the Open Society Institute to sign up for a lecture, I typed in www.osi.org into the address bar. What I got was the homepage of Ontario Swine Improvement. I think I may attend the Banff Pork Seminar instead.
July 2009
10 posts
Freakin' out.
poisonville:
pleasedontsqueezetheshaman:
therocketsurgeon:
Freaking out, freaking out, freaking out. Remember that feeling when you’re not sure what’s going on where your blood runs cold and you feel sick? That’s me, and I don’t like it.
Is this the workings of an evil potential landlord? Someone should make a horror movie/documentary about the abject fear and zombification that comes with...
Freakin' out.
Freaking out, freaking out, freaking out. Remember that feeling when you’re not sure what’s going on where your blood runs cold and you feel sick? That’s me, and I don’t like it.
Got it.
Pending all goes smoothly with the paperwork, homeboy and I will be the newest residents of a rockin’ duplex sometime after Aug. 1. I suppose good karma beams were coming in our direction yesterday.
Cutthroat isn't my preferred m.o.
Apparently another bid is being placed on “our” apartment today, which I wasn’t expecting - the place has been on the market for a month and a half. This sort of thing makes me anxious. Please, jeebus, let their rent offer be lower than ours.
One step closer....
Boyfriend is in agreement regarding the awesomeness of the apartment and reasonableness of the landlord’s counter-offer. I am trying not to get too excited about - WARNING! gratuitous real estate giddiness to follow. Quit now if you don’t want to be nauseated - the cute duplex with 20 ft ceilings, lots of light, an exposed brick wall with working fireplace, dishwasher and private...
Walk it off.
Rather than sit here and refresh my inbox every 3 minutes, I’m going to go for a walk. I’m not usually a nervous person, but losing my cohabitation virginity is a big step, and spending New York rent money together is an even bigger one.
The waiting is the hardest part.
We’re apartment hunting and just saw a totally awesome place last night. It was the second one we’ve seen, but basically has everything we’re looking for, is under our budget and is only one block away from where I live now. We put in a rental offer, the landlord countered with something reasonable, but it would mean starting the rent 3 to 4 weeks earlier than planned. Just sent...
June 2009
8 posts
A word about my state of being....
It feels as though sometime during the night, I was somehow turned inside out and then returned to my normal skin-on-the-outside appearance. Damn you, 2-for-1 happy hour so close to my house.
Court, again.
Hustled up to Midtown for lunch with homeboy during the break, now back in my favorite spot on the hallway floor under the payphone awaiting instructions and yet another chance to go in the cold-ass courtroom.
Also annoyed that this iPod app doesn’t let me see my dashboard, fwiw.
Finally, some movement. I shall transfer my ass from cold stone hallway floor to hard wooden court bench. Thanks for not putting church pew cushions on ‘em, State of New York Unified Courts System.
Live from the courts
I am doing my civic duty of sitting on a cold stone hallway floor waiting to be let into the courtroom after an hour’s delay. Second day of duty, haven’t gone through selection yet. Alas,I won’t be allowed to tumble inside the court. They frown on spontaneous acrobatics.
May 2009
34 posts
All's quiet on the Tumblr front
But not in the meat world. My tumblr has been dark for at least a week, maybe more because things have been nuts at work - the media was over swine flu the instant American Idol hit the final four, but the probable case reports keep coming. Thankfully, the illnesses are still relatively mild, and a lot of the nuttiness is due to the “worried well” clogging up ERs, but gah. It keeps...
Decisions, decisions - gym edition
Can’t stay at the McBurney Y - classes don’t fit my schedule and it’s expensive. NYSC seems like the Starbucks of gyms and Equinox is crazy expensive. Gah. I’ll probably just go with NYSC since it’s a block from my house.
Do one thing every day that scares you.
Attributed to Eleanor Roosevelt, but recycled by Kurt Vonnegut in the commencement address he gave at MIT in 1997.
I did something that scares me today. I registered for a spinning class. Oh, how I wish I would be taught to make yarn out of wool using a big wooden wheel, but no. It’s the 45-minute ass-kicking that I’ve been too chicken to try. Since I am fundamentally lazy, even when...
Some party.
chuffedlittlemuffin:
At a party this weekend, I met someone studying public health. She had worked on a study as part of her degree program. The study was to compare people with schizophrenia vs. a control group based on how much time each group took between taking drags on cigarettes. That was it. Findings: people with schizophrenia smoke slightly faster than people without schizophrenia,...
Whoa. →
subjecttomeg:
lawful:
This is one of the coolest things I’ve seen.
Coolness. The blob is coming to get you.
Confidential to Tumblevision
poisonville:
The 2nd Avenue Deli reopened a while back on 33rd Street, just off of 3rd Avenue. Not that I’d recommend going there, when you can just drive up to Montreal and go to Schwartz’s!
I’ve only had the sandwich at Lester’s, last year. Perhaps I’ll try Schwartz’s next weekend for a fair comparison. Yes, that’s right. I’m going back to Montreal for a...
700 pairs of panties stolen from Westfield store
thedoctr:
By MARK SPIVEY STAFF WRITER
Police continue to investigate an incident in which undergarments valued at more than $6,000 were stolen from the downtown Victoria’s Secret.
About 700 pairs of panties priced at $9 apiece were swiped from the store a little after 2 p.m. on Tuesday, Westfield Police Capt. Cliff Auchter said. Auchter said Friday that police have no suspects. The Broad...
Directory
Where are my tags for “random useless crap”, “stuff I just thought of”, “snack foods” and “funny animals”?
Coldplay Fans,
inothernews:
withlove-amz:taufiq:b-rides:
Go to Coldplay’s official website (coldplay.com) and follow the links to have a free download of their new live album, LeftRightLeftRightLeft. It’s a present to all us fans. Naww, how lovely. (: KGO. IT’S AWESOME.
Dammit, CDC.
I can’t remember my “challenge phrase”. Why do you have to lock my account for an hour? Why won’t you email it to me? Don’t you know I’m on a deadline? Stupid, stupid data security. Your rules really stick in my craw sometimes, federal government. Oh yeah, thanks for poaching my boss.
Solicitation of random information - favorite...
I’m going to make pizza for dinner. Suggestions?
Afghanistan quarantines its only pig due to swine... →