open letter to isiah thomas

if you trade david lee, nate robinson, or jamal crawford before the trade deadline, i will have a meltdown. please don't.

thank you,
concerned knicks fan

p.s. to clarify, this applies even if you are trading them for kevin garnett. just don't do it.

packing it in

so we got our apartment, officially, which i am so unbelievably psyched about. t-11 days until the move!

but what this means is that, especially since we have to paint two rooms back to their original white, and especially since the week we move i have a huge school project and a conference i am helping to organize all occurring at one time (not to mention i have tickets to the knicks two nights before the move, which we all know i am NOT missing), we have to pack now, while we have the long weekend.

packing is such an intense process. every time i have packed all my belongings i have started off with a minimalist attitude, thinking that it would be a great opportunity to weed out all the things i don't need, organize my essential remaining belongings into easy categories delineated by different boxes. and yet, three or five boxes into the process, i end up just letting it go. i try to keep on throwing out stuff i don't need or use (or giving it away or recycling it), but i just pile the stuff into boxes as quickly as possible, and wind up flabbergasted by how much stuff i actually own. so this time i'm trying to accept that i'm no longer a college student (not like this was true when i was in college), that i can't think of everything i own just by putting my mind to it; no matter how hard i try, i will forget stuff. so i need to just pack whatever i find, and accept that there are always more boxes if i can't fit it into the one i'm working on.

tune every heart and every voice

as a pton grad, i take a special pleasure in the following most-emailed list from the times:
1. Questions Couples Should Ask (Or Wish They Had) Before Marrying
2. Health Plans: A Chance to Pick Hospice, and Still Hope to Live
3. Editorial: The Build-a-War Workshop
4. Day Out: Time-Traveling in Oxford, England
5. State of the Art: Breaking the Myth of Megapixels
6. A Princeton Lab on ESP Plans to Close Its Doors
7. Harvard Plans to Name Its First Female President
8. Down and Dirty
9. 36 Hours: Sedona, Ariz.
10. Your Money: Figuring Out Gift Giving in the Age of $2,000-a-Pound Chocolate

though to be fair, we've had a woman president for four years now.

see? i write on this blog!

one day later, and here i am again, loyally typing on the blogger. today i was reading about google and how they are scanning books onto the internet and its raising many copyright issues. i can't decide what i think about this; i mean it seems great to be able to do a web search of the text of EVERY BOOK IN THE WORLD, but on the other hand--is nothing sacred? i spend waaaay too much time on the interweb as it is.

the article also alluded to something i've noticed, which is that, even though google is clearly an enormous juggernaut with the capacity to buy out any startup it thinks is worthy (i.e. youtube, that writer program), it maintains its down-home, grassroots feel. i feel like i'm doing something happy and non-corporate by buying into every program they create (love that blogger software!), but really i'm probably selling my soul to the devil. maybe they'll eventually turn evil (in direct contravention of their unofficial motto "don't be evil") and start making all the information stored on any of their programs publicly searchable in a meta effort to make "all the world's information searchable." food for thought.

wisdom...tooth

my top right wisdom tooth is hurting. i don't think this bodes well for my Plan to Never Have My Wisdom Teeth Out.

hello world, there's a song that we're singin

hellooooooo blogworld. i'm not going to bother going into how long it's been, since i seem to consistently stop writing for long stretches at a time. however, i recently noted that julia posted on my blog, which means i may have not one but TWO readers, and even though one of them only saw fit to announce that they were bored, i'm still going to write--just for them.

it is second semester already, and i'm well into several classes, including one on tax, which is far less boring than it sounds, at least to me, though i may be unique in my capacity to find the tax code interesting. recently i was at a firm reception, during which a partner told me that the vast majority of tax lawyers are "really boring." so that was an inspiring piece of advice that i will carry close to my heart as i move forward in my law career. not that i especially want to be a tax lawyer, just that to me it seems more interesting than mergers and acquisitions. or AT LEAST as interesting.

another reason for coming back to the blog is an excuse to post pictures of my beautiful new apartment, once they arrive. tom and i are moving march 1 (actually, hopefully feb. 28th) to an upper east side hi-rise (at least, 95% certain that we are--i won't get into the nasty ny real estate details), and i am very thrilled. it will be beauteous. i will post many pictures, in fact this blog may become an homage to my view.

and now i will end this freeform exercise in procrastination. next time i will have an actual topic to write about, fret not.