It seems hard to believe, but it’s now been nearly a week since I’ve posted here.  I can’t remember the last time I let this site go fallow for so long.  I’m back in Philly now, after nearly two weeks hanging out with the family in Portland.  It was a lovely trip, although by the […]

This afternoon my mom and I went out for a walk with the dog. This is a fairly normal occurrence around these parts, but it’s the first time I decided to bring my camera along and capture what I saw as we walked. It rained most of the day around here, only really […]

The last week has been something of a humdinger.  I finished my thesis, wrapped up my last class of grad school and started a relationship, all within the same five day period.  And then tomorrow afternoon I get on a train that will take me up to the Newark Airport and I’ll fly off to […]

If any of you were thinking about coming out tonight to help celebrate my graduation, I want to let you know that the venue has changed.  We’re going to be at Triumph (117-121 Chestnut Street) instead of National Mechanics, as they are hosting a burlesque show for which there is a $20 cover.

Around 2:30 pm yesterday, I suddenly stumbled into a period where I couldn’t cope.  Where everything converged and I truly felt like I might fall apart.  Within half an hour I found out that my great-aunt was in the hospital and that a job application process I’ve been in hit a stumbling block.  I couldn’t […]

I left my computer for two and a half hours this afternoon to go meet with my thesis adviser one last time (got the final edits!) and go to the grocery store.  When I returned I discovered that my eBay account had been hacked and it had been used to send out a bunch of […]

I’m having some people over for dinner tonight.  It’s mostly potluck, I’m putting together the main dish.  I settled on doing a baked pasta dish.  Then I decided to complicate my life a little by doing one bake with turkey sausage and one without.  Then I decided to do two completely different sauces instead of […]

Apartment 2024 is smelling appealingly of cloves and orange oils right at the moment because I took a brief break this morning from the nearly-finished thesis to make a pomander ball.  There was something soothingly mindless about making rows with cloves in the skin of an orange that gave me a much-needed break from words, […]

Last night I crawled into bed, all ready for sleep, with my computer.  It was midnight and I was tired, but I needed to do a little more work before I could rest.  I worked for about an hour, writing posts for Slashfood and Green Daily before turning my mind to some school work.  Just […]

Right at the moment I’m a little bit tapped out when it comes to writing. I’ve been posting like crazy over on Slashfood and Green Daily this week and working on my thesis to boot (however, the light at the end of the tunnel is in sight). This is one of those nights […]