January 2006 Archives
Posted by Chiara | Category books
The Inferno
Posted by Chiara | Category main_page
'Cause everyone loves a meme. Four jobs I've had Library Page Assistant Florist Bookseller at Waldenbooks Maid at a hotel Four movies I can watch over and over The English Patient The Princess Bride Raiders of the Lost Ark The Lion in Winter Four places I've lived Evergreen, CO Sandy Hook, CT Ann Arbor, MI Natick, MA Four TV shows I love Northern Exposure Twin Peaks DangerMouse The Muppet Show Four places I've vacationed Lake District, England Maui, HI Puerto Vallerta, Mexico British Virgin Islands Four of my favorite dishes Gnocchi with peas and a pink sauce Aloo Gobi My
Posted by Chiara | Category main_page
I've decided to try and knit myself a sweater. I went to Skeinlane in El Cerrito last night and the wonderful women there helped me find a pattern and pick out some yarn that will work. I chose a heathered wool that is kinda wine colored. I think it will look really pretty. I will be doing a fair amount of traveling for work soon, so I figured a good knitting project would work well for the time on the plane. Of course, I don't know how to increase or decrease on purpose yet. But hey, there's only one
Posted by Chiara | Category main_page
My family's cat Maggie, who is 15 going on 16, has been very ill. She's been living at the vet for the past 2 weeks, trying to figure out what is wrong with her and to get her eating again. Yesterday my mother told me that Maggie had stopped producing red blood cells and her kidneys were starting to fail. At 11:30 EST today my mom and Burt had Maggie put to sleep. Maggie and her brother were found on the side of the road in CT in 1990. She was a rescue kitten, as all of my family's cats
Posted by Chiara | Category main_page
We are kicking off a big project at work next week. This week is all about preparing for the project, getting up to speed on the phase 1 work we did, that kind of stuff. In reading through the documentation I came across the name of a key team member, who happens to have the same name as someone I went to high school with. It turns out that they are not one and the same (I Googled and checked). But it makes me wonder where folks have ended up. There are so many people I knew from CT out
Posted by Chiara | Category main_page
I saw this in a newsletter I received recently. Thought I would pass it along. This little treatise on the lovely language we share is only for the brave. It was passed on by a linguist, original author unknown. Peruse at your leisure. Reasons why the English language is so hard to learn: 1) The bandage was wound around the wound. 2) The farm was used to produce produce. 3) The dump was so full that it had to refuse more refuse. 4) We must polish the Polish furniture. 5) He could lead if he would get the lead out.
Posted by Chiara | Category main_page
Being the "veg-head" that I am, I love beans. I especially love black beans. And I super especially love the black bean soup that Atticus Books and Cafe in New Haven, CT makes. I love this soup so much that I still eat it even though there is ham (or at least a hambone) in it. Shhhhh. Don't tell anyone. But really, it's THAT GOOD. Well, today I met that soup's match. Caffe Centro in San Francisco makes a veggie friendly black bean soup that is to die for. It doesn't have chunks of beans like Atticus' does, but the
Posted by Chiara | Category main_page
There was a woman on the BART train home tonight who was ill. I assume she was homeless from her unkempt hair, unwashed clothes, tattered bag, and the smell that hung around her like a cloud. It was a smell that filled the train car, a smell that I still find hard to get out of my nose. But it wasn't her smell or her appearance that unsettled me. It was her behavior. I believe she was suffering a psychotic episode. And I don't mean that in the way that behavior is often called crazy or psychotic. She appeared to
Posted by Chiara | Category netflix
Posted by Chiara | Category netflix
Posted by Chiara | Category netflix
The Scent of Green Papaya
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Slackers is back up and running, and I hope feeling better. Mucho thanks to E and S for working their magical computer-foo on the system. Personally I'm trying to get back into the groove of working. I had a nasty flu of Christmas, which meant I didn't get to take my nephew into New York. I was so bummed. Oh well, there is always next year. Otherwise, not much to report.
