So after my summer courses, I had an entire month of vacation. Though two weeks of it were plagued by migraines, I feel, overall, that it was a good vacation, and a good length, and, aside from the exhaustion that comes from suddenly waking up two hours earlier than I have been, I am feeling okay about going back to work ( Read more... )

So I started my summer Spanish class yesterday. My other class, on language assessment (related to ESL), began on Monday and I am really enjoying it ( Read more... )

Back in the summer, I went into the DMV to get a new license - I do, after all, live in a different state now. My first license, I got the day I passed my driving test, but this time, they told me they had to mail it ( Read more... )

Ah, summer in Manhattan...

Ordinarily, getting tickets to Shakespeare in the Park means either waiting in line from about 7 or 8 in the morning for the free ones - especially if it's a weekend - or paying $100 for the convenience of not waiting. (Technically, a donation...)

Yesterday, mbarr and I walked up to the box office around 1:30 (they give out ( Read more... )

... you go to a baseball game and there is a kosher hot dog stand ( Read more... )

Got a haircut.

My hair is now 12 inches shorter/

The guy who cut it is Jewish and from Queens. His name is Fabio.

Go figure.

Guess that means I'll be needing a new userpic...

Thank you to mysticengineer for a wonderful (free!) evening yesterday. Three of us went to a concert at the Cooper-Hewitt design museum thanks to the time and money mysticengineer put into buying Time Out NY and looking through it for ideas for stuff to do last night. We never did make it to museums during the day... (that had been our first plan) but this means my room is ( Read more... )