And I’m eating a Corned Beef sandwich, with Swiss Cheese, on Rye bread. A coworker brought in a ton of this stuff from a favorite restaurant of his, just as a nice gesture. And it’s fantastic. Everyone in the office today converged on the kitchen, and made a sandwich (or two). Corned Beef, 10 AM….
Sorry. I haven’t been in much of a mood this past week. Hell, maybe even these past two weeks. Work has been chugging along, and I’ve been back and forth. Lately, it’s hard for me to tell if I’m being really social or if I’m being really reclusive. It feels like a mix. I guess…
by Yehuda Amichai On a roof in the Old City laundry hanging in the late afternoon sunlight: the white sheet of a woman who is my enemy, the towel of a man who is my enemy, to wipe off the sweat of his brow. In the sky of the Old City a kite. At the…
Many hours later, as I’m writing this and trying to get my life updated on the blog… I’m looking at the television with a more critical eye. I notice that the brand name is Advent. I wonder if this was intentional. I’ll have to talk to Ben tomorrow on this one. :)
I got the television set up, and now my living room actually feels complete again. I replaced my futon cover with one that I had purchased several weeks back, and it’s like a whole new room. I don’t have an antennae, so I’ll have to pick one up tomorrow at Radio Shack. I ended up…
Oh my word. Ben and I walked over to Nola’s, and waited around for Justin, Kent, Christine, and Stu. We chatted a while and, slowly, over the course of 15 minutes, everyone trickled in. Justin and Ben both had never had oysters, but they ended up trying one for the first time tonight. Ben tried…
As we make our way outside, we walk onto my porch, I lock my door, and turn to leave. Ben says "Your door’s open," and when I go to check… he’s right. My door is slightly ajar, and he tells me this is exactly how he found it, when he walked up. As it turns…
Ben and I sit at my kitchen table for a while, and we talk. On looking over the note on the television, he knows me pretty well (given the disclaimer about not giving it back or paying for it). I’m at a loss for words, and not really able to adequately express my gratitude. Everytime…
So I show up at my apartment, and I can see that the front door is open. Through the screen, I see someone standing there, looking at one of the poems I’ve got taped to my wall. I walk a little closer, and realize it’s Ben. At this point, I’m a little spooked. How did…
Justin and I worked until about 6:30 PM, and talked briefly with Anthony as we were on our way out. Let me take an aside here and mention that Anthony was pulling a late evening, pushing to try to get some pages done for Q101. Like most of us working with the Internet, he was…
Earlier, Ben kept asking me what I was up to tonight. "You have plans?" he’d ask, always grinning. Justin had invited me out to catch some seafood with a bunch of folks, and I told him about dinner. Ben sounded like he had something up his sleeve, but whenever I tried to get details, he…
First snow of the year. This was a rather unsettling thing to see, but it was bound to happen. The past few winters have been remarkably tame (compared to the very first winter when I arrived in Chicago). For the longest time, I thought every winter here would involve mountains of snow and evil, evil…
It’s been pretty rainy outside, dark and overcast all day. I’ve been in my pajamas all day, and plan to go back to sleep shortly. When I first woke up, I put on my glasses, grabbed my book, and spent the next few hours still in bed, reading. And you know what? It felt fucking…