Sitting around waiting for an interesting blog post to just spring fully formed out of my skull is obviously not yielding anything. When all else fails, here is a list:
- Good news! I am starting to write reviews for nymag.com (that’s New York Magazine to you people far away), in their under-$30 section, which means I get to eat out! a lot! Which I love. First review isn’t up yet but I’ll build it into the sidebar so you New Yorkers can follow me like so many rats to a fiddle. Muah-ha-ha.
- I met Kristin, formerly of Debaucherous and Disheveled, last weekend, and people, she is exactly as awesome, and as tall, as you think she is. We drank lots of wine and ate saganaki and risotto and bonded about life and family and love and she is just one of my new favorite people on the planet. She should be yours, too. And! There’s a spot on her dock in Vancouver whenever Stuart and I scrape enough pennies to make it there.
- I had the following conversations with one of my 1st graders this week, whom I’ve dubbed The Ladies’ Man because for a first grader, he sure is:

TLM: “I’m going to ask out _______ (a girl in the fifth grade).”
Me: “How are you going to do that?”
TLM: “I’m going to buy a car, and drive to her house, and ask her to marry me.”
Me: “Where are you going to get a car?”
TLM: “I got a job. I work at Dozy’s making fruit salad. I get five bucks an hour.”
Me: “How old are you, anyway, TLM.”
TLM: “I’m 24.”
Me: “And you’re still in the first grade?”
TLM: “I’m slow.”

Seriously, it doesn’t get any better than that.
- The weather! It’s nice! I’ve been going out for regular run/walk type things (what, I hate running so I let myself powerwalk most of it although I won’t call it that because that implies polyester jumpsuits) and every minute of the breezy 60-something degree weather makes me think, why don’t I live in Northern California? And then I remember – hippies.
- I’ve been writing using this program called Scrivener and one of the great things is that you work in chapters, all under the banner of one draft, which means I don’t see the whole thing together at the same time until I did, yesterday, and I’m about to break 20,000 words! Damn, dudes! That’s a lot of words on one subject. I am le thrilled.
- Lastly, I’ve done this before and it seriously is SO much fun, so I’m dedicating today and tomorrow to Question Time! Ask me anything. I’ll probably answer it. Or get my minions involved.

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