( The call of the wild. )

This morning, I got passed by a hotdogging cyclist headed northbound on St. Nicholas as I'm turning onto it. I could tell he was hotdogger because he was speeding through intersections when he didn't have the light; he was also wearing a t-shirt and shorts, while I am still cold at work, an hour later, despite wearing many layers this morning. When ( Read more... )

I have never had any interaction with the court system outside of jury duty and traffic court, but from my sample of n=2, I have decided that court is a place where the justice system fucks with you because it can.

Case in point: my trip upstate to get a plea bargain on my speeding ticket. ( Whine. )

Tolls to go up for travel across the Hudson.

I am all for making driving a little more expensive to convert drivers into mass-transiters, but given the sorry state of mass transit--and the fact that mass transit would become more expensive, too--this is a shit plan. I don't know what to think about this but that milking commuters has never been ( Read more... )

So, last night, before we went to see War Horse, my mother and I went to get food. We hadn't really made plans, but we stopped in at PJ Clarke's and managed to get seats at the full-service bar. Superlative burgers, by the by, if you're looking for a place. Our incredibly charming Irish (do the Irish come in other flavors?) bartender was very ( Read more... )

There's this lab supplier that must have come by three times this new year alone already with product info for us.  He just came by again. We chatted, after he gave me the whole sales spiel, about the various ways to make yourself better after being sick. (Because I was coughing a lot.) I told him I'm taking a ton of vitamin C--I take it most days ( Read more... )

I don't hate the people I hung out with all weekend. By and large, they were awesome. I got completely blotto Friday night trying to keep up with my former coworker, who insisted we do one round of dirty martinis and is it any surprise that I then threw up all over my room? Saturday was spent cleaning, recovering, and baking, that last round being ( Read more... )

I'm heading out to Reno for my brother's "graduation" (he has completed his fellowship and is getting a party or something), and I need to get to JFK. I was planning on taking the A down to the AirTran, like I've done before ( Read more... )

Ugh, I walked out of a test puzzling over this one question that I could not, for the life of me, figure out why it was so bass-ackwards. Immediately figured out what he probably meant as soon as I was three steps outside the door. It's a stupid mistake mostly due to stupid wording. Because I don't want to be "one of those" students (i.e. the post- ( Read more... )

On my way to the library before work today, a woman walking with a cane came across the intersection perpendicularly to where I was waiting to cross. She looked like she was saying something to me, so I popped out a headphone to be sure. She seemed to have stopped speaking, almost seemed to be waiting for my response, so I said something ( Read more... )