wednesday, january 04, 2006
Ten excerpts from the east coast
Every winter, I spend a week in New Jersey with my grandparents (and no internet) and it is nice. We jabber at one another, read the newspaper, and stay up until five in the morning. But this time, I discovered that if I sit at a certain spot on my bed, a tenuous thread of wifi sneaks across property lines directly into my laptop. Yay! So this post is released ahead of schedule.
Thoughts you may have while playing Scrabble with your grandma for the thousandth time:
- It’s fun to play the word “sex” on a triple-score square.
- Your grandma is a prescriptivist.
- Greek letters are not words despite their best efforts.
- The dictionary does need its binding repaired.
- Did I just lose again?
Thoughts you may have while wandering around New York for a day:
- Los Angeles should try this public transportation thing.
- The Death and Life of Great American Cities was talking about the long tail of cities. Oh no, did I really just think that?
- Cortland and Braeburn apples are excellent.
- The “walk” and “don’t walk” signs mean something different here.
- Libraries have never been this exciting, and that is saying something.
comments (1)
uh it's even more fun to spell the word "quaalude" when you're eleven years old.
i once won grandma by two points but i think she let me win
– lizzy on 1/6/2006 20:39:18
