I'm not going to start another entry by apologizing for not writing more frequent entries. I went from not posting because I had no schedule to not posting because my schedule is INSANE. Either way, I feel so much better when I'm writing more than this ( Read more... )

Man, I can't believe what a great, energized mood I'm in today. Yesterday I felt like I was swimming against a riptide in the ocean of suck. I also got a migraine that left me laying in the dark in my apartment for hours, praying to God to make my life numb. When I finally felt well enough to take Greta for her long overdue evening walk, I opened ( Read more... )

This weekend I covered the US Pole Dancing Championships. Honestly? It was a blast:
http://www3.timeoutny.com/newyork/tonyblog/2009/03/hot-recap-us-pole-dance-championship-%E2%80%9909/#more-14326

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Today I had my first crazy experience with fact-checking. Let me say, my mag is thorough. Last night, I got a call from my editor asking for the phone number of this bar regular I quoted in my Inwood Walk article. I looked through my notes, and I had his picture, his name, his church, his age, but the only number I had for him was actually the ( Read more... )

I want to go back and do the weekend over. It went by waaaaay too quickly.

Friday night I came in......not hung-over exactly. I started Thursday night at our local work hangout with my bosses and a few cabernets. Then we went to Radegast Hall & Biergarten for my boss' birthday party. I only had one shot and one beer, but did you see that beer? ( Read more... )

Oh man. Got to the airport with plenty of time to spare and treated myself to a 15 minute chair massage. Then I could finally collect myself ( Read more... )

I need to take some responsibility for the state of things. I feel like a dog tied to the bumper of my own life, just trying to catch up. No, no. It's nothing serious. I've just become……… totally lame ( Read more... )

Treating Allison to a Congratulations Meal at La Bonne Soupe, we (as usual) talked about everything. The place was nice and their chilled cantaloupe mint soup was lovely, but people were lined up out the door and I frankly didn't get it. Oh well. When I told Allison that Carey was meeting my Pop this weekend, she wryly observed, "There's been a lot ( Read more... )

Yesterday was a swipe at normalcy (as normal as I get, anyway). I managed to get out in the confusingly hot weather, and bought guide books for Barcelona and Paris as well as phrasebooks, and a beautiful journal and pen/pencil set for Mom for Mothers' Day. I couldn't resist, and stopped at Sephora on the way back, picking up this, these, and this. ( Read more... )