pickney_gal

The 52" color, ninehundredeightynine channel digital cable set has been traded-in. For a 19" black and white floor console Zenith. Replete with rabbit-ear antenna and pliers to change channels.

That is the only way I can summarize the way I'm feeling Right Now.

I am happily bidding adieu to the cold and NYC for the next 13 days. There is an island in the South Pacific I'm hoping to swim around.

Happy Stuffing, folks!

However inadvertently, all the more disasterous moments in my life have been accompanied by a near-Hollywood perfect score.

In 1985, from a window in my parent's bedroom, I watched as the fertilizer warehouse (!) around the block incinerated during a particularly freaky lightning storm--the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band's "Fire In The Sky" emanating fuzzily from the graying Zenith radio on my mother's nightstand.

Then, in...
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Fall in NY finds me back in the kitchen, and I've made it my mission to try at least two new recipes every week. I cook a lot of Thai food, but for some reason have never attempted Pad Thai. I was feeling noodley tonight and went for it. Noodles? Perfectly slippery. Tofu? Did not even fall apart in the wok! Shrimp? The wonderful orange...
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A John Coltrane documentary in the middle of the afternoon and a free pair of orange (!) heels.

I have the best job ever.

A John Coltrane documentary in the middle of the afternoon and free pair of orange (!) heels.

I have the best job ever.

According to the thermometer it is officially soup season in NYC. The inaugural serving: a perfectly-spiced bowl of Tom Yum Koong. Mmmmmm!

So Tuesday Bush announces the launch of a huge ground and air offensive in Iraq the biggest since the start of the war and poof! a day and a half later, 'specific threats' to the NYC subway system. I'm not playing the part of tough New Yorker or pseudo-conspiracy theorist here, but...confluence? Diversionary tactic?

Thirty-five minutes home on the F train...not a single officer. Um...