Wax Elastic

Burning at both ends.

Permanent Loss - June 30, 2005

Taking a full time after working freelance is great because now you have a place you can call your home. However, warm security of home is only one of the perks. You also have the new influx of possible friendships you can build with your new co-workers. In my office, there are two desks. One, obviously mine, looks onto the other and the door to the office. That other desk It's a bermuda triangle of employment. The true inhabitant of that desk is on sabbatical at the moment and will be...
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Scar(r)ed For Life. - June 28, 2005

About a week ago, we were going out to celebrate the completion of the wife's first year of residency. It was a special night, so we figured we would go to one of the better restaurants in the city, Peter Luger's. We arrived there, lickety-split. Found the parking lot with ease. Parked. Jumped out and began our walk to the restaurant. Nothing out of the ordinary. As we made our way down the street, we heard sirens. Still, nothing out of the ordinary. But as we walked to the restaurant, we saw a.
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Thwap. - June 8, 2005

When living here, I become slightly barely more thick skinned to the grossness, muck and stink of the city. Today's 90 degree weather meant a few things. It meant that cross street breezes, which typically are pleasant, are offering a barrage of scents that will destroy your olfactory nerves for the next 25 years. It meant that the dog urine, once thought quaint by NY standards because the dog who did the deed was so adorable, is now a waft of hot stench rising to your nose like a sledgehammer..
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Polite New Yorker. - June 4, 2005

At Gray's Papaya, for one buck, they sell a button that says "Polite New Yorker." Every time I have myself one of their delicious recession specials (2 dogs, and a 16oz Coke for $2.75) I'm tempted to get one of those buttons. I think the feeling spawns from my internal need to be nosy and help foreigners (read out-of-towners) when they visit this fair city of mine. An open subway map is a signal flare that help is required. Berlitz Frommers It's my calling card. I thought that in my down time,..
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