It’s the last day of the academic year and I’ve just returned from the farewell dinner for one of the general surgery fellows. They’re all gone. It was their last day today. We’re rid of the incompetents we hated all year and the friends we liked. We lose great docs to other institutions and feel [...]
I gave up the chance to watch the premiere of that new food show I want to watch so I could go to the gym later and watch the Euro 2008 Final. It’s huge. It isn’t every day that someone who’s actually a chef gets a Food Network show these days. This post is for [...]
I met with the first of a small handful of realtors today. I realize I’m the one interviewing them for a job but it doesn’t make me any less nervous. I’m a fish out of water with this whole thing and people who know me wouldn’t recognize me in situations like this. I’m one of [...]
New York state says so. And it is. Butter has always been better. On all fronts for all reasons, especially when it comes to baking. How someone can open a can of Crisco and scoop out that waxy goo that smells somewhat like car oil is beyond me. It should have never caught on. Sure, [...]
I fired off several angry e-mails to the powers that be in my institution this past week. I doubt they’ll fire me but I could still make people, say, not happy by questioning their logic. The picture below is why I did it. For me. For my friends. For all women everywhere who everyone pats [...]
And finally, finally reality sets in. The rose-colored glasses grow clear and through the fog of burning illusions, Americans finally start to see what everyone else has known for years. Reality. It’s a bitch, isn’t it? Vespa sales have doubled. He who laughs last, my friends. He who laughs last, dear SUV owners who have [...]
They finally pulled the plug on my cable yesterday. Now I can go back to doing things that require mental exertion, no matter how meager. I’m reading the New York Times this morning and I find out that West Virginians think statistics is a hard science. The crapshoot numbers game that can be manipulated to [...]
One only need pick up the paper (any one will do) to have one’s faith in humanity quashed or renewed with amazing rapidity, sometimes all on the same page. My favorite nugget today as I sat in a Center City coffee shop was provided courtesy of the Washington Post. So let me get this straight: Blind [...]
I made it. Tomatoes were at $1/lb at the market and I bought 3 pounds of them and made Andalusian gazpacho (red versus the white Malaga style). It’s exquisite and the only thing that’s kept me from drinking the whole thing is how labor-intensive it was to grind everything in my tiny 3-cup processor and [...]
