Milwaukee

For the love of your sanity... or something... please see Laura's recent post titled "Browsing the Meat Market". But make sure you have a towel handy because you might pee your pants.

Baby Seals

Today, my (55-year-old) roommate, we'll call her Lady X, told me that her uncle (when he was 7) once managed to take a baby seal out of the Bronx Zoo, bring it home, and stick it in the bathtub without anyone noticing or at least doing anything about it until the police came to knock on the door during dinner. Only in New York. (At that time (approx the 1930s) the Bronx was, as Lady X puts it, rural.)

Not In Bostonia Anymore... Toto

Good Lord it's hot here! I think the wicked witch of the south came here and breathed fire through the subway channels leaving us to swelter on this god forsaken island. Seriously. That's the only thing that can explain it. I moved into my new place on a 95 degree day (monday) and it's only gotten worse. Today was over 100.

Thank God for work...where there's air conditioning... and which affords me the ability to buy my way into air conditioned establishments. I have an air conditioner to install, but no tape or plexiglass or whatever it is I need to fit a 2-foot-wide air conditioner into a 4-foot-wide window.