i wish i was better at keeping in touch, at calling distant friends, at making visits in all the spread apart little corners of the U.S. where people i know are making their days real ( Read more... )

Much of what I have noticed about the reporting and analysis of the situation in New Orleans and throughout the Gulf Coast seeks to offer blanket descriptions of the people who once were evacuees, and now must live for months like refugees. We want to characterize them, so that our analysis can be made simple. While there are some societal factors ( Read more... )

Donate to Katrina relief.

how sad it will be when summer's looming end arrives and the adventures of myself and my friends will be shortened into jaunts to little warm coves in each other's houses ( Read more... )

Holly!

this site is like the antithesis of yr intense food lover boy!

go to main page. then go to steve don't eat it! on the sidebar on the right. amazing.

1. that i have sex later today (extremely likely ( Read more... )

i just took a much-needed long weekend away from work and philly and spending lots of money and...and...and ( Read more... )

i totally ruled at a training i did yesterday for medical students. i was scared shitless about it for months. i was worried that, being medical students and perhaps feeling threatened about the way that i present and talk about domestic violence (some people are), they would turn to their intelligence as a tool of defense, and thus question me in ( Read more... )

so i'm not going to disneyworld. yes, there was a chance i might go. my cousin katy's chorus won a big contest and is getting to perform there in april. my mom is really into disney for some reason (she just went to disneyland with her best friend a few months ago ( Read more... )

the past several days have been full of super highs and super lows.

super highs include:

1. seeing miss kate in all her glory. and even dragging myself out of bed on saturday to make it to brunch too. it was like my first brunch date in ages it seems like. when yr broke, brunch is often the first frill to go. kate is so sweet and kind and ( Read more... )