As I Was Saying…

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Confessions from the new New Frontier

“Miss, are you gonna fold the slice?”

Sunday, September 4, 2011 - 5:45 am - I was standing in the pizza place near my school in the Bronx, having just accepted a paper plate full of bubbling cheese. The voice belonged to Astrid, one of my classroommate Vanessa’s advisees. Astrid is a recent NYC transplant from California, and I understood immediately the purpose of her question, which essentially asks, “Are [...]

A Mother’s Day tribute

Monday, May 9, 2011 - 2:43 am - I tend to think that these minor, dare I say manufactured, holidays–Valentine’s Day, Mother’s and Father’s Days–are pretty arbitrary. Did I send my mom flowers this weekend? Of course I did, and I’m glad that there is a reminder on the calendar that I should do something like that. Mother’s Day could be any weekend, [...]

No Cure for “luf-longyng”

Tuesday, January 4, 2011 - 4:16 pm - [NB: This post is a scan of my brain that I don't expect will make sense to anyone who doesn't feel exactly the way I feel and like exactly the same things I like.] Unabashedly, I mostly turn to pop music when faced with life’s most emotional questions. Maybe that is only because my favorite authors [...]

Things my cover letter won’t tell you…

Sunday, September 19, 2010 - 3:49 pm - In the past few weeks, I have invested myself in finding a job worth having. To this end, I have, draft by draft, been fine-tuning the cover letter to an exact science. It goes something like this: Dear Courtesy Title, Expression of interest in specific position and experience in/passion for the general field. Rattle off [...]

Fun for Geeks and Travelers

March 10, 2008

I spent way too much time this morning playing with the various features available on timeanddate.com. You can use the site to find out what time it is in other parts of the world, but it will also tell you truly geeky things, such as how old you are in days, hours, minutes or seconds. The site also calculates great circle distances between many domestic and international locations and provides dialing codes for international telephone calls.

The spiffy and highly accurate clock you see at the bottom of the right-hand column on this page is available courtesy of timeanddate.com. Keep this page open to track exactly how much time you’re wasting on the computer.

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