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This is what I see from my bedroom window today. Normally it’s just the office opposite, an architecture firm, but this month workmen are replacing the brickwork on the side of the building and they’re at our level today. We’re on the eighth floor: they still have a ways to go before they’re done. I [...]
While recovering my equilibrium after traumatic events,* I tend to find it helpful to covet things. I mean objects, beautiful consumery gadgety objects. I fantasize about the ways in which they’ll make my life easier, funner, let me do new things… Not that I need said new objects. But that’s really not the point of [...]
Buy your dog some nail polish. And for your child: a saddle they can put on your back because bareback just won’t do. The latter link seen at fussypants.
I became a citizen of the United States yesterday. It was the usual thing – a quick interview with questions testing my knowledge of American government and history (easy ones, but one feels like it’s very important to get them all right, so one studies for the test, of course), three other questions that had [...]
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