I can’t believe I still haven’t gotten around to telling you all about my great dinner in the city over the weekend, or the slumber party with my friends at the cottage, the awesome time we had at the Dutchess County Fair, the marvelous anniversary dinner I had with Birmingham (I still refuse to believe [...]
Archive for August, 2007
29 Aug
Freaking Hippies
How can you be arrested for setting fire for something that is created for the sole purpose of setting fire to it?
29 Aug
Come Early Morning
I hate the feeling of the pre-work morning rush, because I always have a list of things I want to do, and as I run out of time, they fall off the list one by one. Nope, no time for doing last night’s dishes with the cereal bowl. No time for the cereal bowl, even. [...]
27 Aug
Life in the fast lane
After months of swimming at the “stroke improvement” class, I started swimming with the big kids today. These Masters swimmers have competitions and work out on Monday, Wednesday Friday. Many of them have been competing since they were in school, and a few of them were even all this or all that. There are about [...]
22 Aug
Oliver, Who Would Not Sleep
After my swim this morning, I chatted it up with a nice lady in the locker room. She told me that she has a compulsion to always use the same locker every day and I told her that similarly, at work, there is only one toilet that I feel comfortable using. It’s the security of [...]
20 Aug
Bad Cat
I live close enough to work that I can go home for lunch, a thing that improves my quality of life by at least 27%. On nice summer days, I like to sit on the outdoor furniture in the backyard. Most days, I’ll open the back door and let Micki the cat have a little [...]
17 Aug
Hot Six
I went to see my doctor about my knees yesterday. She agreed that my right leg is indeed longer than my left and told me it was because of tightness in my lower back. Then I told her that I’ve been trying to heal myself by doing exercises I got off the internet and I’ve [...]
15 Aug
Breakfast on Pluto
There is only one consolation for waking up at 5:30 in the morning to go swimming. The local Woodstock radio station has a feature every morning called “Almanac.” I love listening to it as I drive to the pool. It starts with some NPR-esque piano music, and then a man with a very soothing yet [...]
14 Aug
Epilogue: Nineteen Years Later
Back in 1988, my ten-year-old heart burst with a secret. My parents were going to open a bookstore. All they needed was a location, shelves, and books, and we were going to be in business! After harboring this secret for months, the plan finally came to fruition, and I was allowed to tell my friends [...]
