Last night I was fairly productive, in a perfectly mundane fashion. I finally managed to get off packages with dresses in them -- I lied and told the post office attendant that I had made them myself (I felt that gave me more legitimacy somehow. He was very impressed by my prowess with needle and thread.) And then, because Kyle and I couldn't ( Read more... )

It's been an eventful weekend, beginning with a trip to Atlantic City with my dear friend, daphnep, where we stood in the deepening twilight as the cold salty waves lapped our ankles and later were thrown up into the sky by the ferris wheel as rockets exploded in the air around us in celebration of the Taj Mahal's 30th anniversary ( Read more... )

Last night's attempt to create the perfect fava bean soup was successful! And I, like great chefs before me, improvised! daphnep and Dan enjoyed it with me and then we challenged each other to a few rounds of pinball with whafford, who somehow managed to not scoff at our comparatively low scores. The man is a pinball wizard. I'm trying to learn his technique ( Read more... )