Well, here's a twist to the usual co-counseling/college reunion/summer vacation dream: a good, old-fashioned funny farm, the kind they probably outlawed a generation ago, but Frederick Wiseman made famous in his documentary "Titicut Follies" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ ( Read more... )

Gentlemen are permitted to remove their jackets in this kind of weather. I would say most of them did. Russell and Lawrence split the difference; Russell kept his on while Lawrence carefully folded his blue blazer over the back of his pew.

I did not bring a jacket at all. I'd spent most of Saturday doing my laundry and making sure that I had a ( Read more... )

It was freezing cold and blustery. Perfect weather for walking across the Brooklyn Bridge ( Read more... )

I was trying to phrase a reply to Vincent's entry re IQ tests and was rummaging around some Charles Murray citations when it struck me that what I wanted to say couldn't be summed up in one little reply post ( Read more... )

Well, livejournal land is off to a roaring start. There is so much to catch up on and Ninelegyak makes compelling reading even when he's just going out for Indian food. And Derek has written something about men and Ayn Rand which I'm going to have to get back to later ( Read more... )

I know it sounds hackneyed. TGIF must be the most commonly used subject line on lj this day of the week. But, that's how I'm feeling--banal. Cliched. Un peu tristesse ( Read more... )

I really have to say that despite everything, I've had extraordinary luck with ordinary rank and file RC co-counselors, at least with the ones who have shown a real desire to get to know me and who trust my thinking, and were willing to travel great distances to do so, etc. It's now clear that the base of all my problems with the leadership (the ( Read more... )

I really don't know what my mood should be right now. I know that's an odd way of putting it. But, it comes after a weekend of conflicting emotions and probably not enough sleep. First of all, I was able to drag my ass to Saturday Soup Kitchen (at St. Michael's Church at 99th&Amsterdam) and learn to my surprise that I had been missed. I'm not ( Read more... )

As usual I've spent WAY too much time reading other people's websites this morning (so, much more intersting than mine.) Not much to say, other than this is going to be a very busy day. Not only is there tons of stuff to do at work, but, Friday is my regular counseling day with Damien and it always feels like the house is a wreck (not that he ( Read more... )