It's very clean under my fridge

When I got back into town, I had no clean clothes, a fridge full of rotten food, and cetera, so I spent a week doing chores. That's sort of my version of self-love anyway. Those of us with overweeing superegoes can at least tidy up and treat ourselves to a very clean apartment. Especially when you can call in reinforcements for the hard parts and order from Fresh Direct. I'm basically one of those Real Housewives of the Upper East Side now, as my mom calls them.

Did you see that?

All in all, I think we all wish we were on that plane. You could dine out on that story for years. "One time I landed in the middle of the Hudson, midtown. You heard me."

I went and took some pictures for you guys. The plane is still in the river, at Battery Park City. The streets are closed off and clogged with firetrucks. All the lobbies of all the luxury waterfront condos are swarming with cops and firefighters, guys in diving gear, etc.

Katz's deli

When Kate was here, on her last day I had to work all damn day and then go to a seminar and then lecture, and so she was left to her own devices. I told her to walk around the Lower East Side, where she went to the Tenement Museum and Katz's (good choices). While she was at Katz's, she sent me this text message: "This is the most confusing thing I have ever done." They have a bit of a system, see. Luckily, the system involves making montreal smoked meat (known here as pastrami) that melts in your mouth, and half-sour pickles. When you come to New York I am taking you here.

New York smells homesickeningly good

And then there's a lot of this - I don't know who does it (the doormen? residents?) or why (to compost? to discourage dogs? the sheer aesthetic?)

Your place or mine

Relationships in New York risk dying of attrition on the basis of this dilemma alone.

"I haven't been home in days."
"Well, I have to work in the morning."
"It's a longer subway ride from your house."
"Yeah, but it's a closer walk to the subway."
"There's no good coffee in your neighbourhood."
"Your apartment is too hot."
"I have wifi, we can both use the internet at the same time."
"Yeah but I can't blow dry my hair there without blowing a fuse."

Except on Saturdays, when you just stumble to the closest apartment after all the fabulous drug parties.

Bumper nuts

Finally visited the ghosts in Edmonton - the river valley, the highlevel bridge, Bistro Praha, Gateway Blvd, my old building, the scumbags who run the Garneau Pub, the University, Save-on-Foods, my uphill climb to Bay LRT station, the mall downtown, it was minus thirty-seven and yes that is my friend's truck. What's lovely? All of it, including how everyone mixes - knows each other, at least indirectly, the blue collar wobs and the poncy graduate students. Edmonton is where I made it, cobbled together an apartment-household over three years, finished my MA, got my first career-stream jobs, and feels way more like hometown than Calgary. There are two tenure-track jobs listed for the U of A, and I keep my fingers crossed that at least one of them stays open for the next three years.

SMS Highlight Reel, vol. 20

Century 21 sold out of tiaras!

that forgiveness is often considered a supererogation... Over and above duty.

Just hit a kid. For real this time.

your not becoming a hegelian my little kantian ? :)

Helvetica is Hegel

i know. fucking ny. but i love ny too. fuckin landlords...

It was always easy to be with you.

i just got so hit on in the mens bathroom while i was peeing...

haha. i am excited. no girls only wives. the woman at tj maxx just freaked out cause she thought i was jake gyllan hall

i have bourban early wake ups. supposed to go for traditional jewish food seszchaun style buffet with friends for lunch

I wanna get a tattoo after work in carroll gardens today. Wanna accompany me?

I'm Sitting In Strawberry Fields Still expecting To Wake Up

Does the seven dollar card also get me on the metro?

Ugh, waiting for the subway is boring. this is valuable drinking time! and this stop smells like fry grease. could smell worse!

I have red pajama pants.

This is one of the most confusing things i've ever done.

Cats, dogs, pot, dust, never vacuumed floor, but mostly cats and stale pot. congrats on your last class!

i love you. fireside christmas latkes...

descartes thinking is being. fichte. certainty is i. kant criticizes dogma. disrupts certainty. maintains assertion. categoris are plural. hegel categories are one

New School Occupation still going. Come in solidarity!

o my god you killed a super ego demon!