January 2009
16 posts
“Representatives Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) and Ted Poe (R-TX) have asked Treasury...”
– Atlantic Yards Report (via Gowanus Lounge). Love it.
No layoffs -- ever! -- Stew Leonard's, #7 →
Every child should have the privilege of growing up down the street from such an institution. I submitted an application here as a high school junior, seething with jealousy at the kid in my Spanish class who bragged about his posh job at Stew’s. He got time and a half on Sundays for collecting wagons in the parking lot. I never heard back, and soon got my first job at a Hallmark store on...
1/26/09
isgossipgirlnewtonight:
NO.
boo.
“As to the health risks of cold air, Dr. Stefan Worgall, chief of pediatric...”
– Q&A: Is Cold Air Cleaner Than Warm Air? Ah, the medical explanation for why I’m your little old lady friend who carries tissues in her bag all winter!
“Ms. Gillibrand, who has been endorsed by the National Rifle Association, is...”
– Paterson Picks Gillibrand for Senate. So many Carolyns: personally, I’d had my fingers crossed for Maloney, but I suppose fighting (for 15 years) for things like feminist issues and healthcare placed her a little too far from “centrist” for that, huh?
The Buzz at Ben’s Chili Bowl →
Last time I was in DC, for the Dismemberment Plan reunion shows, there was one other non-negotiable thing on the agenda: waiting in a long-ass line post-Black Cat for some chili cheese fries and a shake. When I lived there, no excursion to U Street was complete without a visit to Ben’s. Or a jumbo slice*, that other DC food institution. Lines snaking out the door were the norm, but past...
“What is the impact of the press on presidential campaigns? On the early months...”
– I just switched my PoliSci seminar for the spring from Public Policy Analysis to this class, newly added this week. Absolute upgrade. Also, photo with Reiner Leist, oceanography, and urban studies and media electives to round things out. I’m so ready.
Hey, Lindsay - m4w →
Oh, you know. Can’t complain, I suppose.
After We Discussed How to Pronounce "Pasteles"
“I don’t want to hear it!” “What?” “It’s not fair to Jill! Someone needs to tell that girl.” “I’m with Kelly,” I told him. “Are you going to snitch on me?” “I—no! I don’t know her like that. I don’t even know you like that. But someone needs to tell her. It’s not fair to her.”...
So I’m trying to finally get in-state tuition this semester, since I’ve lived in the city for, you know, a year and five months this time around. But oh, paystubs are not valid. And with a year of bank statements, you still need something else. That postmarked piece of mail from over a year ago? You’ve got one for every single month, right? Oh word, you don’t? Worthless,...
"This Blue Tulip bankruptcy is about to wilt...
Today’s bankruptcy news. My mother works next door to the Darien Blue Tulip, where the former secretary of my elementary school, Mrs. Jackson, works. She offered to put me in contact with her daughter, a year my junior and a UConn graduate, should I be looking for a job in PR. I am not. Not yet. Word is, at the Wilton store (next door to the Village Market), the young sales associates cried...
“She’s like a drug dealer on The Wire.”
– Mike Glennon, as we watched the “Gossip Girl” pilot, at the part when Serena tosses her cell in a city trash can. For posterity’s sake, remembering the precise, “Alright, now it’s definitely all come full circle,” moment on a fairly perfect New Year’s Day. ...