If you've been following reports about the shooting right across the street from my university, I just wanted to let y'all know -- in a fantastic argument for running late this morning -- that I'm fine and missed the whole thing by about an hour ( Read more... )

ETA: OMG A GIGANTIC TREE JUST CRASHED OUTSIDE OUR WINDOW!So, a few nights ago my dad and I went out to dinner, and there I saw a mother (mid thirties) and her son (8 or 9) having dinner as well. She was eating while reading some gossip column on her iPhone, and the kid was playing some game on some electronic device -- they did not exchange ONE ( Read more... )

...is really fucking with my weekend plans, y'all. We were supposed to have a 'welcome home' party for one of my best friends, home from Kashmir's war zone (!!!), and dude. They are shutting down the subways at noon tomorrow, so unless we want to walkI know, I know. First world problems ( Read more... )

We just had an earthquake!!!!

What an insane feeling!

ETA: Hope everyone in the Virginia area is okay!

So, D., I, faris_nallaneen, and her boy had tix to see Chekhov's Three Sisters today -- it's currently running in previews at the Classic Stage Company, starring Maggie Gyllenhaal and Peter Sarsgaard. If you know the play, you know it is a paean to suffering, and an existential search for meaning in the modern world. It is very, well, Russian -- and watching it ( Read more... )

Hee! So, the daughter of my fifth grade elementary school teacher, and the sister of my ninth grade Social Studies teacher, and incidentally, a graduate ('77) of said high school is going to be one of the Supremes.

This means, of course, that now these schools and teachers are all over the news. It is surreal ( Read more... )

It all started out so innocently too ( Read more... )

driving into the city after the sun has set is such an interesting experience now. the road stretches out in front of you and the sky ahead begins to show a slight tint of orange (especially if there's snow clouds in the sky). the lights begin to get brighter and brighter, and then all of a sudden you can see the empire state building, pushing its ( Read more... )