The other problem with Humpday polls is that Wednesdays are now my most consistently busy day of the week, as they are the day of the week when I have a honking annoying appointment tearing up my day. I woke up this morning with the big scary thing of the week over and the big logistical nightmares all solved, thinking today would be the day when I ( Read more... )

I have emails from the MIT Enterprise Forum about 3 different events in the next two weeks, about making NYC a tech mecca, biz plan presentations, and hearing from the current director of the Media Lab, but I can't get excited about any of them. The answer to the first is no critical mass of entrepreneurial people and I'm tired of talking about pie ( Read more... )

Lately I've been passing a lot of ads for museum exhibits that I totally want to see. I already went to the Lego exhibit at the Morris Museum, but here are the others:

• Beyond Planet Earth at the AMNH closes in Aug; I missed my chance to go to a curator's talk and young patrons only showing with cocktails, but I'll bet the exhibit is good too. I ( Read more... )

I need to be kinder to myself about my new schedule sapping my energy, but it was frustrating to watch Friday turn from a 4-thing day into a 2-thing day. I don't understand why a liquor store would open at 8am and close at 7, but I didn't get out the door in time for the former and the latter... well. Hit the gym for a very satisfying leg weights ( Read more... )

Pouring rain canceled both happy hour and running on Fri, so I went home and made pasta and read the first 40% of the first in the new Percy Jackson tetralogy. I haven't made pasta in years bc it's too carb heavy for my usual endeavors, but I have 5 boxes. So far, melting seems to be the only way to make soy cheese palatable ( Read more... )

• hot sauce that doesn't require refrigeration
  
• the psychotically expensive cream my sister gave me (it was a free sample from work) that helps my skin when it's too dry
  
• these days, my hair looks better the day I blow it out than two days later
  
• a closet with things I want to wear, rather than things I have to wear to keep warm
  
• caramel-coffee-love
  
• ( Read more... )

I had an amazing weekend, esp considering it's inauspicious beginning. ( whining )

I think the self-discovery process started in the middle of the trip, on Mt. Baker, as I realized that while anything's possible, I don't have the right build for mountaineering. I could still do it, but I'd have to train constantly for it -- and I just don't want it enough. I like brunch and museums and books and I refuse to spend all my free ( Read more... )

Got home from dinner last night to a call from my sister, who sounded exhausted. It didn't take much convincing to talk her into running tmw morning, instead of 6 hours after the call ( Read more... )

It feels like a higher than usual percentage of people I know are feeling overwhelmed by their calendars and flailing at scheduling. Or maybe it's just that these other 4 people all have to deal with me. I feel so much better when I make a decision and lob the ball back to, say, the Boston folks for example ( Read more... )