Archive for June, 2007
family news
Here’s one way to have a good death: first, spend the whole rest of your life making sure a lo of people care about you. In the process, build an exemplary devoted marriage to man who’s tough, devoted, and funny, and raise your own medical staff – a couple of nurses, a pharmacist, a doctor […]
a day off, in familiar strange surroundings
I’m enjoying being here. I can talk as fast as I want, as idiomatically as I want. Other people have Jewish names, not just me. Businesses believe in customer service. It’s nice. And I got to see LA! I traveled here on Sunday, so had Monday off to recuperate from jet lag. I woke up […]
visiting LA in NY
Jet lag has hit (the second day is usually worse) and I don’t feel like writing now, but for those who care I wanted to say that I got to visit LA yesterday. She’s doing well other than the money / no Internet issues, and I got to meet Mick (I think the two of […]
in praise of locker rooms
Ever since I began frequenting them as an adult, I’ve found women’s locker rooms to be inspiring. Not in a prurient way; women’s bodies are endlessly variable and thus endlessly interesting to look at, but the sight of them doesn’t really do anything erotic for me. High school locker rooms weren’t interesting at all: everyone […]
the pre-trip panic
Am beginning to panic a little. No shortage of things to panic about …. intercontinental solo travel, driving an hour and more out of JFK airport on CT (while jet-lagged, even), how my presentations will be received, driving through NYC on my way to the Newark airport, hooking up with Rudder in SeaTac, going on […]
first, the meta
Since I’ll have sporadic email access for the next little bit, and since spammers are bad people (I was going to use the word evil, but I’m reserving that for human and civil rights violators, of whom there is depressingly little dearth at the moment) I have turned commenting off entirely at my old site. […]
the numbers
Just some measurement numbers below the cut. Not quite sure wherre I’d have put that extra 5lbs, but just below the shoulders is supposedly a place where fat congregates on women. So if that went down, my legs got bigger, my pants still fit loose, and I’ve been doing a lot of walking, cycling and […]
packing
In a meeting earlier today with one other (male, fairly senior) person, I’d swear he spent half the time looking down at my shirt. (I’m wearing a button-down whose buttons lower than usual, making a moderately deep neckline. No actual cleavage shows, largely because I don’t have any anyway.) I solved that in pure Dichroic […]
why *not* to row
Last night as we rowed up the canal there were several large plastic drums floating or resting in the water. As we rowed back, there were police officers there investigating, who told us to row slowly past that point. (Not too upsetting to me! We had already done a 2000 meter race piece, and that […]
dream wardrobe
I spent some time looking for shoes last weekend, both here and at the online places I trust enough to order shoes from – brown, flat or low-heeled, more bohemian than ladylike, suitable to wear with floaty skirts or capris. I finally figured out why I couldn’t find exactly what I wanted – it’s because […]