bullet points 28 January, 2009

- I’m still not energy-cycle-acclimated, but those deeply-buried pomonacollege workaholic parts of my brain are starting to awaken. I’ve been working three days, and today there was definitely a part of me that wanted to stay late at the office. Note: there was some ****show business with the train this morning, so I came in [...]

in the depths of winter… 26 January, 2009

I discovered that the sweet potatoes I’d been holding onto to turn into sweet potato fries were in a ripped-open plastic bag and as such had grown shockingly moldy. I guess I just figured that with that dry winter air, we’d be on the arid-stale side of the weather/spoilage spectrum, rather than the humid-fecund side. [...]

logistics 21 January, 2009

They did a pretty poor job this week. But the experience(s) have been great. More in a bit, when I’m not just home from a black tie event(!)

perfect first week 14 January, 2009

Domicile, work, Inauguration-related stuff… it’s all just kind of spun itself together in the past few days! The world is a mysterious and wonderful place; sometimes having a really good feeling about a place/people/a situation works out uncannily neat.
I ate at nearby restaurant/institution Ben’s Chili Bowl within a day of when the President-Elect ate there. [...]

next 72 hrs 5 January, 2009

I’ll be packing again — tho fortunately I won’t be living out of a suitcase this time. I even got some bedding today (and, no joke, it’s nice). These last three weeks here have been really nice, but I’ve definitely put things on hold that I need to get back under control. Being in DC [...]

denver over the holidays 1 January, 2009

“at least it’s a dry cold”. And, indeed, sometimes it’s not actually that cold at all — today, for example, it was sunny and in the mid-50s all day, which would have been quite pleasant had I not been, shall-we-say, sensitive to light and headachy. They say it’ll snow a little bit this weekend, and [...]