Archive for May, 2009

Home (?) sweet (?) home.

May 14, 2009

Home feels surreal. As I walked up the front path to my house last night, I thought, “This is like a dream.” How could I have woken up in New York that morning, been at a Mets game only 24 hours before? Apparently, the 12 hours of travel did not convince me that I was [...]

Of kids and mothers

May 8, 2009

Today, the child I babysit made a phone call. Here’s why that is, in any way, notable:
He made it on a cell phone.
He made it on his cell phone.
He made it to his friend who was literally 10 feet away.
His friend did not answer his cell phone because he was too busy texting.
In my day… [...]

+/-

May 4, 2009

+ I’m halfway done with finals after my anthro final this afternoon.
- It was the hardest final of my life. I opened it and literally laughed, because that’s how little I knew.
+ So I went to Absolute Bagels afterward to salvage my day.
- But it was raining on the 10-block walk over.
+ The bagel was [...]

Blogiatus Over!

May 1, 2009

There’s a 98.7 percent chance that everyone (all three of you) has given up on me ever returning.
But hey! Would I renege on a promise? Answer: no, not usually. Unless that promise was made under duress, like, I don’t know, torture. Advanced interrogation techniques. Or, as I like to call it, peer pressure.
(Wait, I’m [...]