Stormy weather

Thunderstorms are so dramatic and they are just starting here.  I managed to get in a run, a Greenmarket shop, and brunch and I am happy to have the storminess commence.
I bought lovely, farm-fresh strawberries at the Greenmarket.  I’m not talking about those hydroponic, steroidal nightmares, I’m talking about beautiful little, sweet berries.  I would [...]

Leaden

I am still recovering from the season finale of Lost–beautiful. 
Since last week, I’ve been trying to convince myself to sign up for a speed-dating event that is happening tonight.  I couldn’t make myself do it.  My desire to spend $50 to talk to a bunch of creeps is outweighed by my desire to watch the Wire [...]

Sweet

My co-worker just showed me a photo of her summer rental in Southampton and invited me to come visit.  It looks beautiful there, but being the guest of a co-worker would be so awkward.  Right now I don’t have any summer plans set. I’m not terribly worried about that, but it is late May and the time is [...]

Mediology

Wednesday.  Yes, this seems like a perfect day for being outside.  Sigh.
In trying to decide my schedule for today, I did a mental summary of my exercise in the past few days:  Saturday, ran 6; Sunday, rode 13; Monday, ran 3.3; Tuesday, ran 4.  Then I thought of the next few days: Thursday, run 4; [...]

Summertime dreaming

It is officially THAT TIME OF YEAR.  Now that the weather is warmer, I am ready to take the summer off. Yesterday I caught myself thinking, “if I were off all the time, I could get up early and ride and then nap and eat and then run…all in the same day.”  I think now [...]

Success spoils Cranky

I had a successful trip to AT L0ft today.  After trying on what seemed like 100 things, mostly (apparently) for flat chested women who want to accentuate their breasts, I found a shirt that I liked that didn’t make me look like Dolly Parton:
[NOT ME!]
Once I find something that fits well, I try to buy more than [...]

ZZZ

Yesterday, I got out and ran six miles, which I enjoyed a lot.  Today we went for a bike ride for the first time this year.  I don’t remember ever feeling so comfortable on the bike, even at the relatively short distance of 13 miles.  My hips didn’t hurt, my lower back was OK…it was [...]

Let’s move Hyde Park downtown and see if anyone notices

I hate when TV shows try to make me think that they are in New York and they get something terribly WRONG.  On Cr1minal Minds, they wanted me to believe that the F train, THE TRAIN I TAKE EVERY DAY stops at Union Square. IT DOES NOT. They could have chosen the among the 4,5,6,W,N,Q,R [...]

Me!Me!

The rules: Each player answers the questions about themselves. At the end of the post, the player then tags 5-6 people and posts their names, then goes to their blogs and leaves them a comment, letting them know they’ve been tagged and asking them to read your blog. Let the person who tagged you know [...]

They are gonna get you

White Construction worker on subway platform to old homeless Black man:  [singsong] don’t get on that TRAIINN.
HM: [fast mumbles] shutthef*ckup motherf*cker.
CW: I don’t THIINNK sooo.  The police are gonna get you and send you away-ay!
HM: [fast mumbles] f*ck you motherf*cker.
I am embarrassed to say how much I would miss exchanges like the above if I lived somewhere else.  [...]