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there’s only sad chard in Massachusetts.

cooked a lot today, had a potluck to go to, chopped and cut and whaled on my cutting board all morning long, converting celery and leeks and onions and garlic and ginger and carrots and zucchini into bales of soup with now sit in my refrigerator, housed in blue topped Gladware.
one thing i did a […]

what i did on my summer vacation.

on Friday, as Alek and i were driving back to his place, a memory suddenly surfaced, something i hadn’t thought about for a long time. i had been thinking about leaving, since i was flying back east the next morning.
“you know,” i said, “i don’t know what made me think of this, but during the […]

remedial romance.

when i was in California, Alek and his boyf and i went to see (500) Days of Summer. i don’t go to the movies much, mostly because i live in an area that has no indie theaters, which pretty much all i would bother to see in the theatre anyway. i was mildly interested in […]

and happy birthday to me.

i can’t believe it.
it’s been exactly ten years.

checks and balances.

i was lucky enough to procure the use of a bike during the two and a half weeks i was in Davis. Davis is an unusually bike-friendly city, not only with bike lanes on every street, but also with dedicated bike paths that wind through many lovely areas, both on campus and off. i had […]