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feeling:
running mileage
this month: 75
4/02: 109.2
3/02: 110
2/02: 95.5
1/02: 57.75
12/01: 101
11/01: 65.5
10/01: 77.2
10/13/01: 26.2: the hartford marathon; mission: accomplished
9/01: 169.5
8/01: 181
7/01: 155
6/01: 126
listening to a lot lately:
wilco
reading:
negotiating with the dead by margaret atwood
recently read:
"don't let's go to the dogs tonight" by alexandra fuller
book reviews: where i arbitrarily rate, rave, and rant about books i've recently read, including the one above
stuff i kinda want:
at amazon
at cdnow
coffee corner
my feelings about coffees from around the city
current fave: my own
runners up:
the bellydeli
pick a bagel
europa (specifically their cinnanut)
decent:
the coffee pot (at 49 & 9)
oren’s
so-so:
new world
tahl bagels (86 between 1&2)
au bon pain
dean & deluca
crap:
starbucks (regular – I go there only for “specialty” drinks)
timothy’s
pax (and they’re mean)
stuff i've written
for lifetime
9/11: how you can help
basic elements of ice skating quiz
chris bohjalian interview
cosmetic surgery
destination weddings
diet do's & don'ts
emmylou harris
fall makeup
fit & fabulous guinea pigs
gay parents
holiday gifts
jeffrey nordling
newish: joyce carol oates interview
missing kids
nine new ideas for new year's
no ordinary baby synopsis
pat benatar
rescue worker jasmin aviles
rescue worker lauren schwartz
sheryl crow
spa chefs
virginia madsen
women in the military
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foreign service?
myths about africa
sleeping kids
war room workplace
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entertainment trivia (5.16.01)
running title poll (7.3.01)
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Thursday, May 16, 2002
3:13 p.m. could the lindberg baby really still be alive? i find this story incredibly intriguing and i swear it's not just because i'm from hunterdon county (where the lindberg trial took place).
it pisses me off that the bush administration knew about an al qaeda hijacking plan in august. but i kind of expected it. the fact that it stayed shushed til now is so wrong though.
fun with new scientist: is there alien life? yes, probably. also, dinosaurs came in with a bang, and went out with one, too. i'm such a dork -- i just love all that sciency stuff.
Wednesday, May 15, 2002
11:36 a.m. mmm...quorn: "a meat substitute made from a kind of a fungus, grown in giant fermentation tanks and processed into a low-fat, protein-rich substance that has some of the texture of meat." sounds tasty.
Friday, May 10, 2002
4:22 p.m. here's a so-so article from the christian science monitor by the very woman who edited my column "reality check" in the student, amherst college's campus newspaper. it's about how kids never speak up in class at amherst. this is partially true. as she gets at, many of the kids who speak up are underclassmen. but i think that it's not that everyone shuts up and stays shut up, it's that you try talking a lot as a freshman, realize you actually know very little, and then stop talking so much. after all, you start to learn, over the course of your years, that unless you really know what you're talking about, you're just speaking to hear yourself talk. and that is a very annoying quality to have, which, unfortunately, runs rampant at amherst (as i'm sure it does at many other small, liberal arts schools packed with prep school kids and the like). students also come to realize that they know they can get away with not talking in class at amherst. that, unlike in high school, you don't really have to prove, at least in the very public classroom setting, exactly how much you do or do not know, how much you did or did not read of last night's assignment. so, what's left, in part, is all the giddy, eager-to-prove themselves, ignorant freshmen talking, chattering on and on, raising their hands all the time, practically squealing like hermione. but the part she seems to have missed is that there's another group talking, and those are the seniors, and some advanced juniors, who actually do know what they're talking about, actually have insightful things to say. and while, as a freshmen, i thought those people were incredibly pompous and arrogant, as a senior we were right on. so there, little miss editor!
Wednesday, May 8, 2002
12:08 p.m. what??? will ferrell leaving snl? say it isn't so! i just don't know what we'll do without his impressions of dubya, trebek, james lipton, and neil diamond, not to mention craig the spartan cheerleader and music teacher marty culp. it just won't be the same without him. still, i love that he says, "This show gave me opportunities that just wouldn’t have been possible had I remained a bank teller in Irvine."
freaky kurt cobain-obsessed college student planted the mailbox bombs.
did you see last night's real world, taped the week of 9/11? i have to say it was really weird watching people mourn this thing so long after the fact and in such a removed way. i think the producers did a good job, though, of not making it seem too urgent, as it was in the moment, since things like that have only made me feel kind of embarrassed. at one point though someone said something about blaming the palestinians and mike and i were like, huh? but then i remembered that right when it happened, they were the first to be blamed. i guess those images CNN and the like showed of palestinians celebrating in the streets didn't help. anyway, last night's show seemed to demonstrate the struggles some of the participants are having being "real" on the real world. i think the strong and stable personalities, like theo, kerry, and chris, came through, while the difficulty of the situation forced the rest of them to be real for once. which was good. it just shows you how young they all are. not to mention how annoying tonya really is.
also, it's official: mike and i will be seeing wilco in paris on may 24! woo hoo! i couldn't be more psyched...ok, except if we were leaving today. but i am just loving yankee hotel foxtrot.
Thursday, May 2, 2002
3:30 p.m. bill clinton to host a tv talk show? how fun would that be? he could be better than oprah!
Wednesday, May 1, 2002
12:59 p.m. kooky vegetarians decide it's a good idea to feed their baby a strict veggie diet just like their own. um, no.
a somewhat insightful, if a little late to the game, article about why "trading spaces" both sucks and sucks us in. myself included. i have to say though that i don't have the designers' personalities down like this guy does. i pretty much just id them as annoying or quiet, and their work as excusable or horrendous.
so, though i fell asleep, i still got to see wilco on letterman (thanks to mike, who taped it). it kind of looked like tweedy was nervous, but maybe he always looks that way and i just never get to see him that up-close-and-personal when he performs. still, he was kind of quiet, too, though i guess "war on war" is a quiet song. i'm wondering exactly why they picked that one -- if it has to do with it being poppy and catchy and, er, timely, or if they geniunely just thought that one would be great. not that i care, but i kind of feel like of all the songs they could have played, there are much more complex and interesting ones than "war on war," which kind of just repeats itself over and over. not that i don't like and appreciate it a lot, i'm just wondering what the motivation was there....
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