Okay, one more stupid internet dalliance and then I'll work on the talk we're banging on for Frayed Wire ( Read more... )

*sigh*

Have ascertained that my neighbor is delusional. Called landlord. 311 is next.

Exercise. Argh, yes. I want to do more of it.

I've been semi- definitely-slacking on going to my gym, partly because illness and dymaxion's visit kept me busy until recently, and partly because my gym is full of fail. I rarely use the equipment room, since it's dim and gross and depressing in there; I have the membership for the pool. On Monday I showed ( Read more... )

Picked up on a cursory scan of this morning's NYT: I'm not a big film-festival person, but half the stuff in this article sounds appealing. I've been wanting to see Sita Sings the Blues since heinousbitca first mentioned it. Anyone up ( Read more... )

Sentences I did not want to write in an email to my cat-sitter: "Also, my landlord said that fixing the problem may involve tearing out some of the wall in my bathroom ( Read more... )

O hai paper_crystals: I finally re-remembered the name of my favorite Korean place in K-town because I went there again last night. Hangang, apparently. They didn't have the tiny pickled whole fish, but they did have green beans in... something delicious. I refrained from getting the fried shrimp in garlic chili sauce just so I could have a reason to go back for ( Read more... )

Huh:
- I want to like the NYC Parks pools, but the one at 54th, at least, is... not motivating me to go back. I want to tolerate it, I do, but my nose is still burning. I'm not getting an Asphalt Green or 92nd Street Y membership, no matter how shiny and Olympic-sized and awesome the place is. Really I just want to teleport - prices and all - the ( Read more... )

From dymaxion, some blessed relief from the bottled-water nonsense. Water from Fiji, indeed.

I wonder how many years I'll live here before I remember that biking in jeans in the summer is seriously ill-advised. Sad that the garment I thought of as consummately utilitarian is actually not the right thing at all ( Read more... )

gotham_bound tells me about $15 bus service to Boston, if I can handle the trips to and from Canal Street. (Went there today. Eugh.)

HELL YEAH.