So it’s somewhere around 98 to 100 degrees at the moment, our air conditioning is BROKEN and the air-conditioning repair people say they can’t come until tomorrow.Yes yes yes, if these are my problems I[…]
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my celebrity twin, or so they say
Over the last six months, the new thing that’s been happening to me is that large numbers of people keep telling me I remind them of Amy Winehouse. A lot of people: people I know[…]
going into hiding
It’s Indian Market weekend and I am afraid. Very afraid. Right now, SFR feels like an oasis, because within a block all hell is breaking loose and getting out of downtown tonight will be challenging.[…]
back from evanston
It was, as expected, hot and muggy in Evanston, a little suburb of Chicago, where I spent the weekend at the Medill writers’ workshop, both attending and working. AAN’s editorial and diversity committees met over[…]
Overheard in ohare airport
Random guy after checking me out in horribly long line for taxi: where are you goin?Me? Out of patience from spending entire flight next to 2 13-year-old girls coming home from camp: Evanston.Guy: Memphis?Me: the[…]