I adored Headlne News up until about a week or so ago. Now they have a special new format, Headline Prime or something, which means stupid talk shows. I hate it. It isn’t on all day, mind you, just in the prime-time hours, when I would use HN to escape TV shows I didn’t like. I am not a happy [...]

The best thing about recent times is the weather. Well, recent meaning today and yesterday. And tomorrow. Sunny and in the low 70s. Almost feels like spring! Yesterday, Tony and I made a few acquisitions at Target, our cheap design mecca until Ikea opens here in the summer. There was a table lamp, clear glass with an off-white shade, almost [...]

I am not taking my clothes off, however. Work is a bitch lately. I got an email today from my boss about writing things down in class. I took it as an affront to my professionalism, after so many affronts to date. One was her insistence that I not speak Chinese or Japanese with my students in class. Yeah. Like [...]