1. SO! If D and I were coming to NYC next month, would anyone be willing & able to put us up for a night? D would be meeting with a networking contact and I would be, well, looking to visit as many of my beloved NYC friends as possible. Let me know ( Read more... )

1. Spent most of Thursday at MoMA, and much of that staring at Marina Abramovic, though I didn't actually sit (too many people already waiting, once I got up the nerve). I was briefly on the livecam sitting on the floor in the background, and a bunch of Twitter followers looked and saw me, which was surreal in the best way ( Read more... )

I forgot to mention this here before, but: June 15-17 I will be !SURPRISE! in Los Angeles. For the first time ever. D scored media passes to E3 and if we're paying for a hotel and shit I'm certainly going with. D will be busy all day long all three days, and thus I'll need to entertain myself while he's working ( Read more... )

For those who skip my Twitter dumps, here is a summation ( Read more... )

1. I spent last weekend in north Jersey reunion-ing with two of my very best friends from high school, whom I have not seen at the same time since at least 1998. I was telling etana about this and she immediately said, "So was it awkward?" and it totally wasn't. It was very relaxed and normal, as though no time had passed at all. One of these friends I ( Read more... )

So here's a query for those of you familiar with NYC and NJ ( Read more... )

Bookpile update!

Finished:
Your Movie Sucks, Roger Ebert (I love this man)
Graphic Design for Nondesigners (could be subtitled, And People Without Brains), Tony Sneddon, et al.

Reading:
Self-Promotion for Introverts, Nancy Ancowitz
A Writer's Workbook, Caroline Sharp
The Dante Club, Matthew Pearl ( Read more... )

1. Old man cat Oberon seems to be doing better. The first few days of the antibiotics were really very distressing, as he wouldn't eat, which is a major warning sign with liver disease, and he was uncharacteristically bleary and lethargic, and most disturbing of all, untalkative. The fact that his appetite was normal prior to the antibiotics was ( Read more... )

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1. Good morning.

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