Pride Parade 2011

Sunday, June 26th, 2011

 Pride was pretty much business as usual, with a little more celebration and high spirits that before. To be honest, other than the parade today, I haven’t done much for Pride this summer. Not enough time, not enough money, and it seems like my friends have pretty divergent interests that don’t lead to group outings [...]

New York Makes Marriage Legal

Saturday, June 25th, 2011

The first time this happened, I wasn’t living there. But I was waiting on pins and needles, dialing into conference calls, surfing the web. I was a journalist and even though we only published biweekly, there was urgency to finding out as soon as it happened, even if it was on the other side of [...]

My day in things I didn’t say when I should have

Sunday, June 19th, 2011

Image: Self-Portrait, Yawning by Joseph Ducreux

Long Summer Nights

Wednesday, June 15th, 2011

With the Trial Advocacy Summer Intraschool Competition over, I have free time in my life again. I already brought myself current with the broadcast schedule of the Doctor Who universe and all the other TV shows I care about, finished all three Hunger Games books, and ran out of convenient ways to distract myself. So [...]

Why Leave Manhattan?

Wednesday, June 15th, 2011

This heat map represents the places I go/check-in the most in New York. I wonder what’s in those parts of the island I never go to. And what’s in Brooklyn? Created with http://www.wheredoyougo.net/