this is what work does to you 28 July, 2009

You read some puff piece in the NYT about aging and health-related anxiety:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/26/fashion/26genb.html
… and all you can think about is how *this* is exactly why our health care system is broken.
The guy doesn’t discuss any out-of-pocket costs, even as he receives a huge variety of often-speculative tests and treatments that no doubt generated thousands of [...]

Dear WMATA, 6 July, 2009

If I wanted a commute to consist of a lot of minutes not going anywhere because of congestion, I’d buy a car.
… and gas, and insurance. Because at least then when you’re sitting in the middle of nowhere, you get a little sunshine. And you can sing to yourself without people looking at you like [...]

food update 18 June, 2009

Earlier this week, I went to a friend’s dinner party. Intent on doing something at least somewhat impressive, I offered to bring from-scratch gnocchi. How did it turn out?
Remember Mother’s Day when you were eight years old? When you wanted to make your mom brunch in bed? And you got up all early to start [...]

24 May, 2009

All the way to the conference finals and we DON’T HAVE AN INBOUNDS PLAY? How much are we paying George Karl to not be able to draw up a set play during a key stretch of the 4th quarter THREE TIMES ALREADY this series? Aiyah, Denver.

may 17 May, 2009

The problem of late is new — not the classic dilemma of stuff to write about, too busy to write it; time to write, nothing to write about. Rather, now it all seems to be about computer fatigue. I sit at a computer all day at work, and it’s fairly difficult even to read through [...]

kitchen update 26 April, 2009

I have at-home-event-hosting anxiety.
And yet, I’ve also grown disturbingly unambitious when cooking for myself. I think the spark I’d need would be other people to plate food for. This, rather than a situation like tonight, where I finshed everything up and ‘plated’ it into a neat row of tupperware containers so I can take the [...]