I slept all morning. I concocted a plan for using all the vegetables that I found myself bringing home from the market yesterday. I made a cumin-spiced onion & chard omelette. I did some laundry. I unpacked my books! I suppose I'm in the mood to square away bits of my life today, although I'm still not convinced I have the energy for reading ( Read more... )

I've been spending my days at work typing deposition testimony (about a defamation case with honest-to-goodness confidential sources! -- but the typing is so boring!) and poking at the internet a lot; I've been spending my evenings with friends. So, a brief summary of things I've discovered over the last three days.

- The French-developed art of ( Read more... )

The Oscars: I've never watched them before, so I missed the beginning and didn't realize the host did so LITTLE for the rest of the evening. ::sigh:: It needed way more Jon Stewart and way fewer women in evening gowns (despite the loveliness), for it to be Not So Boring. Still want to see Munich; now REALLY want to see Good Night, and Good Luck ( Read more... )

I mentioned in my previous post that I like how accessible Center City is. After work today, I took the 32 to the Central Branch and had the following love/hate experience:

Loved: the check-out librarian who kindly canceled my 50-cent late fee (oops! I tried to be careful, but apparently I kept Over Sea, Under Stone a few days too long) and ( Read more... )

You know...no matter what my thoughts on the Chronicles were at any point in my life, since elementary school the name Narnia has always epitomized my imaginary world ( Read more... )

Prompted by ceciliaregent's nudge, I will mention some brief thoughts on books I've read recently. I have an older, bigger book review entry for the reading I've done the past two summers in Spain; I'll update that when I'm back at my apartment and have the pile of half-dozen or so books I read this summer from her Graduation Box of Awesomeness. :) Might as ( Read more... )

The life of a paralegal can be good -- yesterday I watched a clip of the Daily Show in the course of research. Cool ( Read more... )