Today, I stole ten minutes out of my work day to bask in the light and air. Most days I walk across campus from my office to the building where our mail is delivered, gather the mail from the wire basket where it lands after being sorted, and then turn around and head back […]

Right now, at this very minute, I’m sitting at my desk, eating a salad I made last night while talking to my cousin Melissa, the cell phone balanced uncomfortably between my right ear and shoulder. It’s a good salad, romaine lettuce with tomatoes, feta cheese, red onions and cucumber. And a lemon-honey salad […]

I just got off the phone with my cousin Melissa, after spending an hour and fifteen minutes catching up on the family gossip. The big news is that her brother Mike was featured in the LA Times on August 28th (so I’m a little behind in the family news) as a young Hollywood writer […]

Yesterday, I got home from around 6:15 pm, after spending some time with a friend who is going through a sad break up. I felt a little tired and a little restless. I thought about going for a run, but my foot was still a little tender from last week’s spraining incident, and […]

About half an hour ago, my cell phone started ringing just as my supervisor walked into my office. As I reached into my bag to switch it off, I noticed that the caller was my sister. It pained me not to answer the call, because my sister rarely calls me just for kicks, […]

Friday afternoon, I left work with a plan. I was going to go home, change clothes, eat dinner and then ride my bike to the movies. Alone.
This is not new for me. I’ve always been a fan of going off and doing things by myself, whether it be walking around […]

None of the glasses in my kitchen cabinet match any more than two other glasses in said cabinet. The mugs too. I’ve done this on purpose. There is an order in which they must return to the cabinet, or they won’t all fit. I’m a little compulsive when it comes to […]

I woke up this morning to a report on Morning Edition about how FEMA officials were duly warned about the potential for disaster that Katrina posed. And how in the face of this news, they neglected to act.
Leo Bosner, an emergency management specialist at FEMA headquarters in Washington, D.C., is in charge […]

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Arch 3, originally uploaded by Marusula.
I took this on Sunday. It looks bigger in the picture than it actually is. It’s a relatively small structure over behind the art museum, in […]

As I boarded the trolley this morning, I noticed a cluster of people standing around the back doors. I sat down in my usual seat (a single, across from the doors) and realized what was happening. A woman’s bag was caught, trapped between the door and the metal handrail. She was outside […]