If you’ve been following either CNBC or “The Daily Show” — or basically if you’ve turned on your TV at all this week — then you know that Jim Cramer is in a sort of televised brawl with Jon Stewart. It all began with this “Daily Show” clip. Cramer, in contrast to his sometimes tough [...]
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Halfway through Day 2.
Posted in Boyfriend, Daily Life, Eats, Master Cleanse, Shopping, TV, tagged cheerleading, Chris, Master Cleanse, soup, The Bachelor on March 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I just made the trek to a gourmet market to procure nine lemons and a big bottle of grade B maple syrup. You’d think that not eating for a few days would save me money, but that syrup is pricey! This bottle put me back about $27. For those of you intrested in jumping on [...]
Day 1.
Posted in Boyfriend, Daily Life, Eats, tagged Big Mac, Chris, Master Cleanse, Saltines on March 2, 2009 | 2 Comments »
So Day 1 of the cleanse is coming to a close. I’ve done OK. I’ve had some hunger pangs, but I know from experience that I don’t have to pay attention to them. I drank my dinner and am about to have my special tea. Things I have craved today include: pizza ants on a [...]
Faster than a speeding bullet.
Posted in Boyfriend, Daily Life, Eats, tagged bad habits, Chris, Master Cleanse, will power on March 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Tomorrow Chris and I start another abbreviated round of the Master Cleanse. We did four days in early January, and Chris had done it a couple of times before that for a week to 10 days. We might just do two this time, depending on what our week looks like as we get into it. [...]
Shopped till we dropped.
Posted in Boyfriend, Daily Life, Family, Shopping, tagged Chris, Chris's mom, jeans, Nathan on February 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Chris surprised me this weekend by accepting my invitation to take him shopping! I think he just got tired of my asking him, but still. This was a big step. We spent the whole day in Manhattan, first at Filene’s and DSW, then at lunch with Nate, then at H&M and Banana Republic, then back [...]
That’s a bad “Word.”
Posted in Boyfriend, Daily Life, Rage, TV, tagged Chris, hot girls, L Word on February 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Chris and I just made it through the latest episode of “The L Word,” which over the last two or thee seasons has spiraled downward to become probably the Worst TV Show Ever. Here’s a list of recent things that have contributed to the show’s being just terrible: In a word, Jenny. I liked her [...]
The comforts of his own home.
Posted in Apartment, Cats, Daily Life, tagged Arthur, laundry on February 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Arthur is right now sprawled out on top of a pile of clean laundry I have yet to put away, in part because I’m lazy and in part because it is Arthur’s favorite place to sleep when I’m working in bed. (When I’m in the living room, he’s abandoned his cat condo for an old [...]
Holding down the fort.
Posted in Cats, Daily Life, Work, tagged Arthur on February 19, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Tonight I had my tutoring job after work, and then I met old friends for drinks, and I came home later than I have all week. My sweet Arthur (aka Parthenon aka the Panther aka Artemis aka Artsy Fartsy aka Arturo aka Parthy) was distraught. I could hear his soft mews through the door as [...]
Laundry day.
Posted in Apartment, Cats, Daily Life, New York, Rage, tagged Arthur, laundry on February 16, 2009 | 2 Comments »
When I moved into this apartment, I thought I’d hit a goldmine. Laundry in the building! No more lugging seven loads of laundry (because I always put it off till I absolutely have to do it) to the laundromat in the morning so they could have it ready for me when I got home from [...]
In medias res.
Posted in Daily Life, Family, Money, tagged Dad, Mom on February 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Because I spend most of the day thinking about money (how much I have, how I can get more), I appreciated this piggyback off of the Center for an Urban Future study I wrote about the other day. I have no idea what “middle class” means. When I was much younger, I assumed my family [...]
