Bookseller, baker, ricotta-cheese maker. I'm a reader, a wannabe writer, have a mothballed J.D., and am little bit crazy. These are the days of my lives.
Posted in crank, government, politics on Sep 23rd, 2009
Yesterday was the mayoral and city council primary in town– now, Boston’s had the same mayor for sixteen years. We do that– unless something’s horribly broken, we muddle along. Hell, I sometimes think Ray Flynn would still be mayor if he hadn’t been gunning for that Vatican Ambassador thing– though really, and not […]
Posted in Better Half, crank, nerd on May 26th, 2009
Sunday night the Better Half and I went to the movies and realized that we are now those people we used to mock as we sat making out with our high school dates, snarfling popcorn and candy like calories were irrelevant and otherwise living adolescent, ego-centric lives. Not so now.
We got off the subway and came […]
Posted in crank, good things on Feb 4th, 2009
Grumpy day. Parking lot misunderstandings. Vehicle keys broken, a trek home to get one that worked. Grumpy, weepy, mad at myself and the world. Fortunately, the tow yard was near the T. Fortunately, the hock for getting the car out wasn’t too high. And fortunately, I had exact change, because otherwise I still would have […]
Posted in Deep Thoughts, books, crank, links, nerd, writing on Jan 1st, 2009
There’s an interesting article in the New York Times about the effect of online book sales on small bookstores– especially the effect of resales on authors and stores.
I admit that I have bought my fair share of new books from Amazon, or gone to a box store like Borders or Barnes and Noble. I don’t […]
Posted in apocalypse, crank on Dec 19th, 2008
Oh my God! Did you hear?!? It snowed today in the Northeast! It’s going to snow more tomorrow! And maybe even on Sunday! We might even get fifteen inches before the weekend’s over! Which is just over a foot, by my calculation, but NO, it’s like a BLIZZARD or something. (Let’s humor me and stick […]
Posted in Princess MeMeMe, bipolar, crank on Dec 5th, 2008
1. You’re cranky when your flannel sheets aren’t as plush as they used to be.
2. You’re torn between the spicy beef yaki soba, the hamachi and spicy tuna roll combo, or the tonkatsu for takeout for dinner.
3. You find yourself sneering internally at people’s ugly, cheap-looking shoes while you wait in line at the store. (Oh, […]
Posted in crank, just plain silly, lawyer, poems on Dec 3rd, 2008
Sigh.
Out of state deposition.
Plaintiff’s attorney is following a script.
Twenty-five defense attorneys on laptops or blackberries,
paying hardly any attention, except
whoever’s on that hour to object.
We’ve all got our email addresses–
we just take turns emailing that hour’s notes.
Bad headache–
I’ll need to buy Excedrin
at the Wal-Mart next door during lunch.
Scratching pens,
weak coffee,
open ended plaintiff’s questions
way too much re-direct […]
We do love us some Bishop Allen chez BLC. But with an 8 o’clock door and two bands playing beforehand? Well, I’ll be ordering coffee, not beer, at the bar, especially since I have to be two hours from here in another state by 10 am tomorrow, for a deposition in an asbestos […]
I work in one of the parts of town that’s still transitioning from grotty to more mixed-use. All over town, condo-business-retails spaces are going up, and there is finally some movement over at North Station. So there are lots of construction workers standing around. One site is clearly union, and there are […]
Posted in crank, good things, just plain silly, links on Sep 27th, 2008
Because everyone should have a little funny this weekend, including me, who had a stupid car accident yesterday– I’m fine but my car? Not so much, it’s off at the body shop for a new front bumper– a link to a very, very funny musical/comedy/drama streaming video up over at Hulu, Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along […]