dispatches from NYC

And the “where in the storm is Jim Cantore?” sweepstakes have started….

Frankenstorm update, summarized: GFS predicts the center passes over NYC; Rhode Island and Boston are all gonna die. ECMWF forecast says landfall in Jersey; NYC and CT shoreline, maybe Rhode Island are all gonna die. National Hurricane Center’s forecast agrees with ECMWF, but suggests maybe we’re all gonna die. Also: hell yes this is at […]

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and that was Friday. The 13th, even.

Working, working, working. Slightly manic, in fact, but that’s more yay than uh-oh. Unfortunately, one of the prime indicators that I’m in a massive manic word-creating mode is that I have an utter disinclination – nay, an actual aversion – to doing any kind of meal-prep. Which, since I abhor most prepackaged frozen dinner things,

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Tuesday Very Much Like Monday, and it’s summer no matter what the calendar says.

oh yeah there it is, the “hazy hot and humid” forecast nobody was waiting for…. ices the coffee, cranks the ac without apology Today (this week) is kind of crazy. I’m working on a novel draft and a short story. I’m trying to get organized for BEA next week (wheeee). I’m trying to get the apartment

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Tuesday Like Monday for Purposes of To Do…

Yesterday, despite a bad start, was crazy-productive.  Which meant I fell over with no brain by 7pm, but that was okay.  Now, if I can just repeat that crazy-productive stance for four more days, everything will be copacetic.  I will also be dead, but hey, can’t have everything, right? So.  The state of the to-dos…

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“I don’t want anything with a mind of its own between my legs”

The title of this entry is sort of an exact quote from “Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows.”  I say sort of because we were laughing so hard after, the exact wording went out of my head. (moderate spoiler: he was talking about a horse) Is this movie as much fun as the first one? 

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