June 2009
43 posts
Hating myself and the F train. An hour late for brunch.
May 2009
48 posts
On my way to BEA for Michael Sandel’s presentation, which all of you fellow BEAers should attend. I’m quite excited.
Saw Sully!
At my first tweet up and BEA party. Just thinking that I’m starting out in publishing at the most bizarre time.
Addicted to coffee and pumpkin muffins at cafe grumpy. Wish this place wasn’t near work.
RT @thebookslut: New Elaine Dundy from NYRB? Hooray! http://tinyurl.com/oymy5f
Getting a little overwhelmed with BEA business, no surprise there.
Getting long emails from friends in far off places restores my faith in long-distance friendships and makes me determined to keep them alive
Hanging out at Bread-Stuy, doing some emailing. I still enjoy not having the internet at my apartment.
RT @sarahw: Rich Cohen wonders whether social media inhibits the novelist’s natural need to escape: http://is.gd/CtPF
Today is our first summer Friday! My coworkers and I might be found having margaritas for lunch to celebrate. Maybe some tacos too.
Today was a very good day. That’s all. :)
So excited for the weekend! @jkep is coming to town, and we have great plans which incl. the Moth, Avedon photo exhibit, & thrift shopping
Does anyone know of any good concerts happening this weekend?
So glad it came from @jkep
Just recieved a letter from my best friend, & am realizing that it is the 1st piece of mail I’ve gotten in my new Brooklyn apt. :)
Reunited with my banana lamp: http://twitpic.com/5efhg
Watching a video about Michael Sandel’s Justice lecture, and getting excited for his event at BEA.
At Tiny Cup with Mom, learning the secret of self-control from the NYer.
Lit crawling, 1st stop is the lounge on Bowery.
Dean Young’s “Delphiniums In A Window Box” is lovely. “Every touch electric, every taste you, …every melon, plum, I come undone, undone.”
The movers are on their way with the rest of my home. Excited most for the arrival of my books.
Workers in my building are blasting Poker Face by Lady Gaga when all I want to do is sleep off this hangover I’ve got here.
The books: how should I organize? Suggestions? http://twitpic.com/5b9xt
We played a double header last night and won game #2 against Wiley. I actually managed to hit. Maybe next time I’ll make it to 1st base.
Articles on Grizzly Bear in NYmag and NYer in the same week? Grumble. That’s all I have to say.
The last half of the buritto I bought a day and 1/2 ago is absolutely delicious.
Just had a scrumptious mushroom and goat cheese omlette at Tiny Cup.
1st real weekend in the new hood. @BreadStuy with @noneck.
Just had my first pinkberry of the warm season. It was amazing.
RT @FSG_Books John Wray’s Michiko Kakutani Tattoo http://bit.ly/QKneU
The Guardian speculates on whether or not current Faber & Faber books have fulfilled the Faber legacy http://bit.ly/dub2F (via @FaberBooks)
Feeling restless, and a little soggy from the rain. I think bed is the answer.
RT @madamepsychosis I love love love du Maurier. She is tragically underrated. (I agree)
Dinner and margaritas at Bonita with mother can’t start soon enough.
Heartbroken that I can’t afford to go to this: http://tinyurl.com/dk6bo5 Last year’s, w/ Augusten Burroughs & Tegan Quinn was fantastic
RT @wordbrooklyn @john_wray, author of LOWBOY, will be at WORD this Fri. at 7:30 PM.
So ready for Bahn Mi, and whatever cocktails will be available at the fpill MoMA party.
Elina Hirvonen’s When I Forgot (Tin House Books) sounds absurdly good. http://tinyurl.com/cd73eu Next on my list.
THE GUILT: Periodically voice messages from one’s 8 year old sis in LA asking “When are you coming?” makes one feel awful. + vacay days pls!
I LOVE my apartment! http://twitpic.com/4fo7m
Devouring Veronica Buckley’s The Secret Wife of Louis XIV. Why don’t I read biography more often?
Moving day!
Shocked by how much crap I have.
Kitten in Ked. http://twitpic.com/4dqaj
Best seat in the house at the PEN/Moth event at Galapagos in DUMBO.
Starting to look forward to NY Times Bk Review essays every week. This week’s Geoff Nicholson essay, “Go Ahead. Spoil My Appetite” is great.
Diary of an MTV VJ audition by the fab @Brods http://tinyurl.com/cfjtp3