This weekend was unexpectedly incredible. Friday, I met Eric and Neil in Southie, then to Foley's to meet E's friend from college, Julia. She's so great, like everyone I've met who means a lot to him. We talked a lot about writing, since she's an accomplished journalist out in LA and bonded over our unconventional families and inability to find ( Read more... )

Short version of the last month or so: creepy eviction of the bedbugs plaguing our building; learning bookbinding and creating things for friends; going to NY with Eric, Cortney and Sharon; E & I renting a car and taking an impromptu, somewhat stupid trip to Ikea New Haven on its opening weekend; winning a Bertucci's lunch for 10 the only time I've ( Read more... )

Even with the last week to myself there's so much I need to do before NY. Eric and I are leaving at 6 pm tomorrow, and meeting Sharon & Cortney there. Our bus is going to race their bus and win ( Read more... )

It's definitely time for a Lisa week. No spending money, no going out, no drinking, probably no smoking, definitely catch up on sleep. I really need some balance. Busy is nice, but I haven't been able to turn my attention toward reading, making things, writing or any sort of reflection. My apartment is destroyed since I had to fit in an ( Read more... )

Looks like the weekend b-day plans are somewhat underway, though Cortney and I are slightly chagrined by the good number of friends out of town and sizable number of competing events. Since The Information have the audacity to play a show on the date of my birth (ha!), we're threatening to make it double as part of the birthday shenanigans. If it ( Read more... )

Every weekend this summer has been awesome - this one started off with the Emergency Music/Cignal show, managed to stay more sober than most and left early-ish in order to get up at 8 am (!) to go to Brimfield with Sharon. I was surprisingly awake, enjoying the hour-long ride in her convertible, spilling coffee and letting the crazy wind transform ( Read more... )

Funny, when there was very little to write about, I had been prolific . . . now there is almost too much going on and haven't had the luxury of reflection . . . I'm really happy with the way everything is going -- not least of all a delightfully drama-free social life that includes parties, shopping, galleries, brunches, movies, plans for going out ( Read more... )

Amazing weekend, again. . . first the Mittens/Emergency Music show on Friday, which was so much fun. I was pleasantly surprised to see Season and an ex-boyfriend who is (very unpredictably) one of my closest friends now. And, as some of you already know, I've been seeing someone for the last few weeks and I think he's absolutely wonderful. I'd ( Read more... )

This whole weekend, since Thursday, has been a whirlwind of activity. . . a dinner date and a show; an extravagant four-course dinner and lots of wine; walking in the sun, shopping and drifting through galleries with someone, running into friends; barbeques, riding in a car with the top down, sleeping in. . . just so perfectly balanced, so very ( Read more... )

Because I've been listening to TAL again and because my morning commute served as my introduction to David Cross, I'm going to start this post talking about sexy male voices. There's something about those snarky men who are brilliant yet don't take their subject matter too seriously, who can say "What the fuck?" predicated by a word like " ( Read more... )