jamie lawrence-howard • highly absorbent redundant and superfluous verbiage • clogging tubes since 9.1.98
since i’m coming down with a cold and therefore am taking cold medicine and am therefore tired, cranky, and balloon-headed, this will be, as the topic suggests, short and sweet.
and probably not very organized. probably pretty scattershot.
Continue reading “short and sweet”
i want an ipod.
actually, that’s not quite accurate. i want kirk to have an ipod. i already have my ipod shuffle, but i don’t want to share it anymore. i’m selfish that way.
but which ipod do i want kirk to have? or, more accurately, which ipod, if any, will kirk buy vicariously for me?
Continue reading “ipod fever”
i’ve been putting off this task at work.
for about three years.
obviously it’s not something that had to be done immediately, and wasn’t mission-critical, and we got along just fine without me jumping all over it.
but today i did it. whee. i feel good, knew that i would now.
Continue reading “dusty satisfaction”
lots of good happenings upcoming for kirk and me. last week was just hectic–every night with something different going on.
and i am a bit of a homebody, and i like to go out and do things, but not every single night. i need time to decompress. i like sitting around the house and wasting time however i choose to waste it.
that said, the next few weeks are bringing some fun things. spaced out a bit, so i can’t complain.
Continue reading “cool things coming”
so it’s all ok.
i just get nervous about class, because, to be honest, i don’t study enough. and my post earlier today was pretty much just displaced anger. i really have no one to blame but myself–everyone has different teaching styles, and i just need to take the best from everyone and move on. and if i don’t get something, then it’s my responsibility to get it somehow.
i gotta crack the books this week. the french books. kirk says to read a french newspaper every day. that sounds good.
i’m gonna do better.
more kvetching about this french class of mine.
which, to be honest, since i paid for it, i should do something more about. but for some reason i am unusually non-confrontational about the issue.
but i need to do something.
Continue reading “dreading class”
walked down 6th avenue to 45th street to walk over to the schoenfeld theater to get tickets for the upcoming chita rivera one-woman show. i told you sometimes i’m a big queen.
but on the way, on 6th avenue, i saw one of my favorite new yorkers.
the handbill guy that snaps.
Continue reading “the snap guy”
the subject, by the way, is a somewhat obscure judy garland reference. i can be a big queen when i choose to.
we saw brooke shields in chicago last night. the play, not the city.
and lived to tell the tale.
i don’t say that because of brooke shields, because she was really great. i say that because of the idiots i was forced to sit near.
Continue reading “we’ll do chicago”
karaoke last night was an absolute blast.
whenever i’d done karaoke before, it was in a big bar with lots of people and cigarette smoke and drunk frat boys and motorcyle sluts and whatnot.
what a difference a private room makes.
Continue reading “too much fun”
so tonight is the big karaoke-fest with people from work. i know, it sounds lame, but they are all people i really like, and i haven’t been out to have a drink (or two) for a while, and i can’t sing but i don’t care, so why not?
i’m meeting a group of people at a place called sortie, which i’ve never been to, and we are all proceeding from there to koreatown, which is the mid-30s in manhattan, and we are going to some karaoke place that no one knows the name of because evidently the places all change names every few days or so.
sounds organized.
Continue reading “karaoke”
i took the day off work yesterday with a mild case of the flu. i’m still dragging today, but at least i felt well enough to come to work, because i had a buttload of work to get caught up on.
at least i didn’t have the kirk version of what is probably the same flu.
Continue reading “the flu sucketh”
pay close attention to the man in front of the curtain
first off, apologies on behalf on my hosting service which has yet to apologize to me–the site was down yesterday for at least 24 hours through no fault of mine. there are several of you getting your daily queerspace fix, a number sure to rise into two figures anytime now, and yesterday must have been hell for you.
i love the picture above. i blatantly stole it from a mac rumor site posting–it’s steve jobs playing around with his newly introduced photobooth software. it reminds me a lot of kai’s power goo, a little program i had for my student’s macs years ago, but that was so long ago that i’m sure everyone has forgotten about it and the concept of photobooth seems fresh and fun once more.
anyway, i made some predictions about wednesday’s big apple event. actually it was in california, not new york. har har har. let’s check in and see how i did.
Continue reading “the wizard of jobs”
the apple “one more thing” press event starts at 1:00pm est today. and then the wait will be over.
why do i care? i’m not sure. it’s not like i’m going to buy anything that is introduced. at least i don’t think i am. i guess it’s just that i like rooting for the underdog. after all, i’m a mets fan. and apple is the underdog, and microsoft is the yankees, and i’d like to see apple hit a home run and knock the wind out of microsoft’s sails.
too much to hope for. too many mixed metaphors. but it still interests me, and there’s always hope.
florida, by the way, was a lot of fun.
Continue reading “today’s the day”
i’m leaving for florida tomorrow to visit my mom. no new blogs until next tuesday. but the trip has got me thinking.
actually, the trip, along with the huge woman in tight shorts and a jesus t-shirt who walked in front of me this morning at the corner of broadway and 49th, has got me thinking.
how does one avoid looking like a tourist?
Continue reading “don’t be a tourist”
one side benefit to switching from my pc back to my beloved mac is the reawakening of my mac fanaticism.
yes, i’m an apple fanboy. have been since 1986 and the mac pluses i bought for my journalism classroom, except for my recent brief sojourn away from the fold. and there’s nothing like the evangelical community that surrounds the company and its products.
and evidently next week, there will be lots of new reasons to be fanatical and celebratory.
Continue reading “apple rumors”
all this speculation about the supreme court nominees has me all het up.
not about the nominees themselves. about the speculation itself.
Continue reading “the supremes”
i’m from floral city, florida, in a small county called citrus county. it’s in northwest central florida, on the gulf coast. i left when i was 17 and, other than visits to my mom when she still lived there, have pretty much never looked back. i did go back twice for high school reunions, which were fun, but those were just one-night visits.
there must be something in the water, though. i’m glad i’m out of there.
even living in new york city, i seem to see lots of negative news about various locations in citrus county. it may be that i just notice them more.
but i don’t think so. the number of odd news items you see seems out of proportion to the small size of the county and its population.
take this latest example, for example.
Continue reading “where i’m from”
yesterday, that is.
the mets won, and that was the bright spot. even though it doesn’t ultimately matter in the postseaon scheme of things, the mets will go out on a high note, above .500 and with several young players that we’ll be seeing for years.
but the red sox lost, and even though it looks at this point like they’ll get the wild card, i really wanted the red sox and the indians to get together and win some games and send the yankees home for october. maybe next year. but i guess having the yankees in the post season is good for the tv ratings and thus good for baseball, so i’ll be a bit magnanimous and congratulate the yankees. grudingly. they got the job done again–i suppose you can’t deny that.
and the gators lost big time. 31-3. or i guess that should be 3-31. to alabama. that’s college football, which i like but not as much as baseball. not nearly.
it’s going to be a long winter.