1. Facts about my birthday (yesterday): I will always be younger (and poorer) than Jorge Posada.
   
   
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( TV (cut for rambling, not for spoilers, though spoilers may appear in comments) )

I miss hockey. (But! I bought tickets to one of the Bruins/Islanders rookie games! September 15, baby, me and Tyler Seguin, a couple of bucks to the Bruins Foundation, and a really bad Dunkin Donuts hot cocoa. I can feel the Garden chill in the air right no--oh, wait, that's the crazy cold a/c in my office. Never mind! Carry on!) (No, really, I ( Read more... )

1. Made this banana brown sugar ice cream (only, because none of the stores I stopped in on my way home had jaggery or piloncillo or, well, any unrefined cane sugars--I really went the wrong way home for that kind of shopping, and I was too impatient to wait another day--I used regular old brown sugar) and wow. So so good. Will be making again with ( Read more... )

• sports: may mama savard get to hit matt cooke as many times as she likes (hey, bruins fans'll even hold him down for her!) and may marc savard be able to turn the lights on in his room asap. may ryan westmoreland's brain surgery (seriously, brain surgery, wtf) go well and may his recovery be swift and complete. may nomar, well, not have to deal ( Read more... )

My story, you guys. It's just so LOVELY AND SWEET (and, man, could that sound more like a cop-out description, but it's SO TRUE in the very best way) AND AWESOME AND I LOVE IT. It's In the Heights, Sonny and Graffiti Pete (and Usnavi and Vanessa) and, seriously, if you know this musical at all you need to go read this thing NOW. Do not stop go, do ( Read more... )

This week, people. For serious.

1. I am vacillating between Arabic and Spanish (and Community College and the Cambridge Center for Adult Ed), but I am totally taking a language course of some nature next semester. I just. Yes. In fact, let's go to the polls, shall we? ( Vote early, vote often, don't vote at all. )

(So for reasons that do not require explaining at this juncture, I get ESPN: The (World's Worst) Magazine. And this is the NEXT issue. And there's an article with Stephen Strasberg and Drew Storen--the Nats' two first rounders this year--and, man, it's entirely possible I ship it. By which I mean that I totally ship it ( Read more... )

1. I signed up for wrisomifu (Write Something, You Miserable Fuck). It can't hurt?
   
   
2. The Wire: I at the halfway mark of season 4. So of course I am thisclose to switching out one of my yuletide requests because, you know, The Wire. It'll probably come down to how close I am to the end of the series when sign-ups actually go live, but still. &THEWIRE;
   
   
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1. Made this lemon buttermilk sorbet on Monday, and by Tuesday it was already gone. OMGSOGOOD. This ice cream maker may be the death of me, but at least I will die happy.
   
   
2. Baseball needs more danceoffs. I say this as someone who has been to a few too many rain delayed games already this season. Also as someone who loves her some West Side Story. ( Read more... )