gripes from the grumpy girlbecause insomnia makes a person really cranky(Untitled)- October 31, 2005 i was incorrect... not including the phal in my studio, i have THREE spiking phals at home.http://blogs.salon.com/0003115/2005/10/30.html#a835 (Untitled)- October 30, 2005 you can't say i'm a quitter: i've been trying to raise orchids for more than six years, and i've killed a whole bunch. (three gorgeous wild-catts were killed by george bush... i bought the around the time of his first election, and spent the last five years dying. not one rebloomed. in fact, of the three i think i have half of one left. i blame him.) i've a dendrobium, and a stack of phals--about 10--under grow-lights, and in all the time i've had them i've had a rebloom ONCE... and even.http://blogs.salon.com/0003115/2005/10/30.html#a834 (Untitled)- October 28, 2005 this is the 10th week of the dietexercise program i did for the magazine whose name i won't yet mention. the results i lost EIGHT pounds. FOUR inches in my waist, which apparently is unheard of... i was honest about my hatred for the yoga ball and exercise bands, but did admit that i loved the heart monitor and have learned to really, really like the race walking. so, a win all around. and i'm going to keep going to lose another 4 pounds. and i've yet to feel famished on this diet,...http://blogs.salon.com/0003115/2005/10/28.html#a833 (Untitled)- October 26, 2005 getting up at 3:45 in the morning can make a girl tired. and grumpy. thankfully daisy's diner is open 247 and i could get a giant cup of java to get me started as the car took me into manhattan. i've been made up my make-up artists before, but this woman was exceptional; i really couldn't believe it was me staring back from the other side of the mirror. being on tv weird, especially when it's via satellite so i can't see whom i'm speaking to. came home by noon slept all day...http://blogs.salon.com/0003115/2005/10/26.html#a832 (Untitled)- October 25, 2005 wednesday i do an entire day of live TV interviews. they're satellite, in a studio here in NYC, and will be beamed out to xx stations across the country. the car service is coming to get me at 4 am. FOUR in the morning. i'm wondering perhaps if it might be best just to stay up the whole nighthttp://blogs.salon.com/0003115/2005/10/25.html#a831 (Untitled)- October 21, 2005 more rain. two nice days, and more rain. nothing good is coming from this rain, and i'm getting crabbier by the second. when it's humid it takes the pots days and days (and days and days) to dry. (fans can make them crack.) harriet is yowling more than usual. running through the house more than usual. both signs of hyperthyroidism. how's this for a plea: if you buy pots, i can afford to get harriet the radioactive iodine treatment. (ok, that was kind of mean, but i will have to pull...http://blogs.salon.com/0003115/2005/10/21.html#a830 (Untitled)- October 17, 2005 i am a vegetarian about 98.5 perfect of the time: a couple times a year i have brisket at my mom's house, or the occasional treat at mcdonalds, a slice of turkey at thanksgiving. and once a year, when the weather gets cold and raw, i make a stew. with meat. with the wind and the rain this seemed like the right time. now, i make a damned good stew, and i decided to splurge on an extra-expensive ingredient... organic meat. let me warn you: do not eat organic meat. ever have meat in...http://blogs.salon.com/0003115/2005/10/16.html#a829 (Untitled)- October 14, 2005 i went to the pathmark yesterday. i was obviously having some sort of brain lapse, or was feeling overwhelmed because i was running low on cat litter and it's the only local place one can buy it in 25 pound bags. yet each time i go to the gowanus pathmark something very annoying and obnoxious happens. this time was no exception. as always, the workers in the aisles, those placed around the store, were extremely helpful and friendly. they know where everything is, help you look for...http://blogs.salon.com/0003115/2005/10/14.html#a828 (Untitled)- October 13, 2005 ok, what the hell is up with the facial hair men, i mean, and their odd new fetish for "fashionable" facial hair. i started, i think, with a goatee. then the soul patch. now there's this weird patch on the chin, all by itself. and there are a large number of men out there with actual beards than there have been since the 60s. (at least this is preferable, in my opinion, but alas, i digress.) as far as i'm concerned, these men look like freaks; nothing worse than seeing what appears to...http://blogs.salon.com/0003115/2005/10/13.html#a827 (Untitled)- October 12, 2005 well. well well well. seems i'm ignoring the blog again. i'm wondering if this is because i'm thinking of winding down here. or because i'm so busy i can't even think about blogging. or because i can't write here about the things i really, really want to write about. for example, and this is in a nutshell: there's a man i see frequently--not see' as in date, see as in run into--and he reminds me so much of a man i knew in college, when i was a freshman and he was a senior. he was older...http://blogs.salon.com/0003115/2005/10/12.html#a826 |