If anyone desperately needs to get in touch with me, please call my cell. You know those dying oak trees in my yard? You know those high winds we're having in the Northeast? The house is fine; the phone/internet lines are SOL. If we're lucky it'll get fixed tomorrow some time. (I'm using free wirele...

After seeing the 25 things you don’t know about me meme floating around the blogosphere, I decided to come up with my own version—twenty-five rants! Let’s see if I can actually get all the way to twenty-five or whether I run out before I get there… I hate having to work for things—...

Five years ago, I began this blog. This was the opening post.Welcome to My Urban Kvetch, a place for me to vent about the issues that clutter my brain as I live my so-called-freelance life in the Big City. I'm all about looking at my experience through the lens of humor, whenever it's possible. Usua...

Some things that are making my weekend sort of suck: 1) I cannot stop futzing with my syllabi. They are completely dissatisfying to me. To call my classes this semester "new preps" would be an understatement. One course is completely out of my field and the other would be sort of in my field if I we...

I don't recommend trying to scrape half a centimeter of ice off of your car before you've had coffee. You'll do things like fall on your ass a couple of times because you're in a hurry since you'd planned to leave an hour ago, and accidentally smack yourself in the face with the scrapey-thing. Fortu...

Y'all are soooo glad that the 2008 version of Blog365 ended and that I jumped off the bandwagon for 2009. Had I ran with it, you'd have been staring at 4 straight days of kvetching. I kid you not. I am soooo sick!! I started feeling poopy last Monday night, and it's been escalating ever since. It ha...

There's one day left. Tomorrow, the microactivism begins:The members of each SuperJews team will get an alert on each day of Chanukah with a mission for that day. Missions will be online acts of good for the Jewish world; none will take more than a few minutes to complete, and sponsoring organizatio...

So yesterday Pseudonymous Kid and I were both having the "Must... get... out... of... bed..." thing going on, neither of us being morning people (getting him to school at 7:55 is so freaking hard, I swear to god), and I just decided FUCK IT and call him in "sick." After which we went back to sleep f...

I'm quite the crankpot today. After posting last night, I went to climb into bed, only to find that some kitten (and I am 99.9% sure it was Mr.Darcy), made "a statement", which meant stripping the bed, one very bad night of sleep, and a mountain of laundry today. I woke up with a headache. It has la...

This is being posted real-time (seems like I should shout "hooray!!" about that, but the circumstances that created free time for me are a real "boo-hiss", imho. Read on.). For starters, let me do a quick Things Around My House Thursday. It IS Thursday, and even though I am not in my "house", I AM i...