Urban Honking

Well do you want to hear more about my new life? I don’t know why you would, but here goes. Nothing is really happening except for our mover arrived and his gigantic truck pulled down an internet line and so the police and fire department and a verizon truck all came out and the policeman […]

Oh my god. First of all, all your comments have been going into my junk folder for like 2 weeks and I don’t know why. So I just now saw them all. Sorry! More comments please, I will check my junk folder. Other stuff that goes into my junk folder no matter what I do: […]

At last I have my teaching schedule and astonishingly it is sort of heavenly!!! My psychology has always been to cram as much as possible into as few days as possible, to get everything done at once. I loathe making two trips to bring in the groceries–I would rather try to fit all the grocery […]

So I went in for my second MRI, which was a “fluoroscopy,” which is where they inject your hip joint with some sort of weird dye that may or may not be magnetized (the nurse who was assisting didn’t know, which was the second of several unsettling moments that occurred during this relatively unpleasant experience. […]

I Used To Go To Best Buy All The Time; Once I Had Them Order A VHS Copy Of Raising Arizona For Me So I Could Buy It Meeting Someone At A Coffee Shop When You Don’t Know What They Look Like Too Many Bagels My Dog Smells Like Clean Laundry Landline Only Independence Day […]

Things are happening. We signed the lease and paid the deposit on a house! Really coming in under the wire on this one–10 days before we move. Please knock on wood that it is not an elaborate scam. Huzzah! It is 1.5 miles from downtown, which is a bit far, but on the plus side, […]

Metamorphosis   Four millennia ago, great stone sewers veined the isle of Crete. Water traveled slim terra cotta pipe to reach silver tongued faucets and marble lipped fountains. And in the Palace of Knossos, the first toilet yielded its basin to a Minoan elite. How did they celebrate its arrival? How often–how kindly–did they sand […]

I’m about to leave on an epic bicycle errands run. Taking pants to the tailor, exchanging some shoes that don’t fit, stocking up on all my hippie teas before we move, getting a picture frame, all these things happen in a different part of town, so off I go, pedaling away. It is too annoying […]

I am working on my Rock syllabus and I am feeling frustrated by how patriarchy works! Ha ha ha Recently a relative of mine said something about domestic violence along the lines of “why don’t women just leave, they have shelters for this kind of thing” and I delivered this epic rant about, you know, […]

Things continue apace. I am reading the diary of Samuel Pepys, which is really interesting, needless to say. It’s also incredibly boring, which in itself is sort of interesting too. He set himself the task of writing in his diary every day, and he did so for ten years, from the age of like 30 […]