Boston and “The Game” I’m blogging from our warm, breezy hotel room in Hawaii. It’s a spacious room, easily fitting three queen-sized beds with a Japanese-styled rice-paper sliding door to create a “master bedroom” of sorts. Outside the glass-paneled windows are palm trees and pale blue skys. Lovely.
But anyway, this post is supposed to be about the read more.. Travel Plans, etc. Before I get into my post, I’d just like to record for my personal purposes that this past week has made me proud to be an American for the first time in a long while. Hooray for everyone. :D
That said, I’ll be visiting some new locations in the next few months. My travel plans read more.. The Silver Lining So, apparently I got what I wanted. I was miffed before that we didn’t have enough work, then came the financial meltdown, and now there’s plenty of work — considered good or bad news, depending on who you ask.
I don’t know if there’s something morally wrong with being glad there’s an economic crisis read more.. Cooling Off The mornings have been increasingly brisk the past week or so over here in New York. This is problematic for me, as I have lived in both Texas and Atlanta for extended amounts of time (18 and 4 years, respectively) and found both places to be too cool during the winters for my liking. read more.. Eat, Pray, Love I started this book a year ago and finally got around to finishing it last week. I think I actually commented about it before in a different post, but whatever.
So yeah, the book is this lady’s memoir about her travels to Italy, India and Indonesia following her divorce. Obviously, it’s not for read more.. Self Censorship So, I should probably explain why I haven’t been writing much at all about work. We were told during training that the firm keeps pretty close tabs on any mentions of their name online. Additionally, we signed strict confidentiality agreements that set pretty harsh limits on what we can divulge. As illustrated by the read more.. A Conspiracy of Paper I finished A Conspiracy of Paper by David Liss a while ago and still haven’t been able to decide whether or not I liked it. It’s basically about the prelude to the first financial bubble in London, which is where the stock markets first began to develop back in the early 18th century.
As read more.. Love in the Time of Cholera Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez. Suffice to say, I didn’t like it. Not to come off as some sort of ardent feminist, but I think it grossly oversimplifies women (they’re either Madonnas or complete flat-out whores — some literally — who basically serve to service men), and it seems read more.. The Curse The curse continues.
Every time I come to New York City, my glasses break not long thereafter: the first time was with my family in middle school, and my glasses snapped in half. I wore them with taped up along the middle, a la uber-geek style.
The second time was with my choir cohorts my read more.. Back in NYC Once again, I’m in Manhattan, except this time for good. For the sake of my own records, I’m going to transcribe a needlessly detailed of the past three/four weeks here:
I came up on the 29th (of May) to start apartment hunting and managed to find an amazing apartment — that was within budget! read more..
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