Category: bodega

I expect to do a bunch less posting in the next few weeks. I’m trying to take some time off, some time away from the computer. When I’m at the computer, I’d like to do some organizing and consolidating so I don’t feel so scattered and don’t keep maintaining umpteen blogs. In the meantime, I…

Thursday night we took a friend out for a belated birthday dinner at Jeanty at Jack’s in SF. Had a very rich, meat-filled dinner, after starting off with a martini and a sancerre (sp?). We shared three appetizers: lamb tongue with potato salad, veal marrow with frisee, and fried pork belly (um) also in a…

January 7, 2002 Send new XXX proposal to YYY at ZZZ March 10, 2002 Evaluate DW beta Laundry March 12, 2002 Update outline/assignments Make NY reservations Prepare AAA’s 50% check (c/o BBB) Send other agents client list March 13, 2002 Call P re “big news” JIFSR paperwork March 16, 2002 Send check to Lawrenceville for…

Really, really, really this time. I mean, it never ends: planning the website, trying to think of promotional ideas, etc., but everything’s in. The deadlines are over. I can crash now, in a big way.

Slicing your hand with the bread knife? or Dropping the bagel into the bowl of soapy water in the sink?

Revving the engine of one of their front-lawn parked cars, shouting at each other. The women in this family (is it?) are always louder than their men. Oh the man is yelling too. I don’t speak the language, but her voice is piercing. Then there are the thumps, at times the children, toddlers and babies,…