As you may know, I’ve lived without cable for all of my adult life, “adult life” being defined as the time since I started signing leases and paying rent. I made the decision to abandon television during the harrowing days of the 2000 election. I was a recent college grad, and I was working at [...]
Archive for September, 2008
10 Sep
Discomfort
I took a vacation day to spend at home to unpack yesterday. A brilliant idea if I do say so myself, as it poured rain most of the day and I got a chance to really move in. At this point, everything’s unpacked but for the decor stuff. Also, I’m still missing a pair of [...]
8 Sep
Baptism
What was going through my head when I thought I’d have an easy move? I requested that my helper monkeys come at 2:00 on Sunday, thinking that I’d be out of there with one truckload and happily munching on “job well done” pizza by 3:00. In reality, the pizza did not happen until after three [...]
5 Sep
Won’t you be my neighbor
I spent the first night in the new apartment. Gone are the nights that are so dark I can’t see my hand in front of my face, and gone are the sounds of coyotes and crickets. They’ve been replaced with a safety light that shines right into the bedroom, and the sounds of the street [...]
4 Sep
I suppose I’m a Red, then
I had an eppiphany today. I’m really a Republican. Yesterday, I picked up keys to my new place and started moving in. Yet, I still have the keys to the cottage, and I’ll have them until I move this weekend. That means that for the entire duration of this week, I will be a person [...]
3 Sep
The End of An Era
Every year, I feel like there are two chances for a new beginning. One is in January, when the year flips and I turn a year older. The other is in September when pools mysteriously close even though it’s still pretty damn hot outside, and all the stores are selling sweaters even though it’s still [...]
