Due to some nonsense and tomfoolery related to my apartment door lock, I spent some time on the phone with a building maintenance worker trying to solve my problem. The problem was this: when I unlocked my door upon returning home this evening, I was unable to remove the key from the lock.
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a conversation with an apartment maintenance guy
Posted in the domestic sphere, tagged funny things on August 16, 2008 | 3 Comments »
a meditation on my cat, Septimus
Posted in the domestic sphere, tagged funny things on August 8, 2008 | 4 Comments »
My cat Septimus is five-year-old cranky moose. He demonstrates his mooseness by being a big, solid, 15 lb. boy who never misses a meal. He evinces his crankiness as follows:
a recipe for gazpacho salad
Posted in the domestic sphere, tagged happy things on August 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
By popular demand! Here is how I made my gazpacho salad. It was inspired by this recipe, but I made it my own (as Randy Jackson would say on American Idol.)
1 huge zucchini
2 medium tomatoes
1 orange pepper
1 yellow pepper
1 medium red onion.
Chop everything up. Throw it in a bowl. Salt and pepper. A few drizzles [...]
gazpacho salad
Posted in the domestic sphere, tagged happy things on August 4, 2008 | 5 Comments »
I have a weird and complicated relationship with food. Mostly, I eat what I want when I want it. I don’t pay attention to calories or fat grams or whatever, because I feel subservient and powerless when I do so. (I told you that this was weird.) I have been the [...]
choosing to stay put
Posted in the domestic sphere, tagged the garbage and the flowers on July 24, 2008 | 2 Comments »
After all of my dithering about whether I am going to move or not, the time to make a definitive decision arrived today, and I am choosing, for various and sundry carefully considered reasons, to sign another 12 month lease. After one more year here, I will be better positioned–financially, emotionally, logistically, mentally, etceteraly–to move [...]
apartment hunting and crushing disappointment
Posted in out and about, the domestic sphere, tagged disappointing things on July 17, 2008 | 3 Comments »
I am starting to do a little apartment hunting. I haven’t given notice on my current place yet, and I’m not in any particular hurry, so I’m just casually watching craigslist for anything interesting, just to get an idea of what’s out there. I want to find a place either in Old Louisville (where I [...]
a sunset
Posted in the domestic sphere, tagged comforting things, happy things on July 7, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Let us not speak of why. Let us just say that looking out the window at precisely this moment tonight, as the sun set over the Ohio River, was exactly what I needed.
kittycats
Posted in the domestic sphere, tagged happy things on July 6, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Today I walked into my bedroom and saw this. It is a true fact that the pleasures of cat-ownership greatly enrich the solitary life. Yes, I live alone, but my cats keep me company, and their needs provide order and purpose on the days when the solitude seems unendurable. They bring me endless pleasure [...]
signs in my apartment building
Posted in the domestic sphere, tagged irritating things on July 3, 2008 | 1 Comment »
This picture pretty much epitomizes the half-assed ethic of my apartment building management office. Here we have a sign announcing that there is dangerous broken glass–as if it were not evident–with no apparent effort to repair the glass or at the very least remove the glass. And then we have a sign announcing the cancellation [...]
laundry
Posted in the domestic sphere, tagged happy things on June 20, 2008 | 3 Comments »
It is a proven scientific fact that it takes sixteen times longer to think about doing your laundry than the actual act of doing laundry. I hate both thinking about and doing laundry with the fire of a thousand nuns.
I used to do laundry in my apartment building, but after an unfortunate incident involving [...]
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