Went to Kefi last night before seeing South Pacific at Lincoln Center. This just might be one of my top ten restaurants in all of NYC. I've been to Michael Psilakis's other restaurants, Anthos and Mia Dona (and Onera, when it was still around), and those are great -- wonderful inventive cooking in a way that feels very special. The great thing ( Read more... )

2008 accomplishments I am proud of:

1. Finishing Philadelphia Marathon, without walking this time!
2. Doing all the work to get guaranteed entry to 2009 NYC Marathon (ran 9 races and volunteered in another).
3. Writing an article that appeared in The Objective Standard.
4. Learning to tango.
5. Getting into the Oratorio Society and singing Handel's Messiah in ( Read more... )

Work: The agency I was working at before, created a spinoff agency to handle certain accounts without conflict of interest. The powers that be decided to send my account to the new agency. So now I work in Tribeca. There are things to like and dislike about it; the part I find most annoying is having to get across town for my commute, which means ( Read more... )

You know how grief is supposed to have four (five?) phases? The marathon felt like that.

Phase 1: Numbness. This is what happens when you are running a race in 26-degree weather. It didn't help that I was in the last of 3 wave starts, so I had an extra 20+ minutes to cool my heels (literally). I couldn't feel my feet for the first three miles! ( Read more... )

Okay, I realize I'm not getting hitched for another 7 months. But I'm all of a sudden thinking about hairstyles, because I went to get my hair cut this weekend and asked my stylist in passing whether the salon does wedding hair. She said yes, all the stylists there do, and started to play with my hair to give me some ideas for what to do with mine ( Read more... )

So, yesterday I ran my second 20-miler of the season. Last year I only did one. I was totally dreading doing it -- with my work schedule as crazy as it's been lately, I feel like all I've been doing is working and running, and as a result I've been totally unenthusiastic about running. I've logged in all the miles anyway, but it hasn't been as much ( Read more... )

That is all.

OMG, how much do I love that man? "Sure, whatever, I gave up two solo shots...BUT I HIT ONE MYSELF!" Not that there weren't a lot of other guys producing last night (maybe Ryan Howard decided he couldn't let the PITCHER have as many HRs as he had in one night?), but how awesome is that ( Read more... )

Scream of joy: WOOHOO! In the duel of the pitchers, Cole Hamels wins! He and Brad Lidge just about gave me a heart attack doing it, but Game 1 belongs to the Phillies! WHEEEEEEEEEEEE ( Read more... )

I feel like my life has been reduced to three things:

• Working.
• Running.
• A smattering of watching playoff baseball.

Oh well, at least that last is exciting. But I seriously don't know what I'm going to do with myself once Thanksgiving rolls around -- the marathon is the Sunday before Thanksgiving, and that's about when this @#*&! campaign launch from ( Read more... )