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Bartender at MSY has a crowd who is exhibiting panic when she says she is closing down – knows our flight is two hours past last call – her retort: New Orleans is operating at 50 percent capacity since Katrina – do you know someone who wants a job?
Tuesday, a day with no margin for error – I had to bring nine ceiling fans to the LaLa because the electrician decided he will come tomorrow and needs the fans – so went and got handtruck and as I was bringing the second load of them down and negotiating doors and elevators I said to myself, self, where is a man when you need one? and John appeared to hold the last door open.…
American called cancelling my flight and offering another that gets in after midnight after circumventing the planet. I booked United which was supposed to leave at 4 but now 6:30 but who really knows. Chicago, here I come, hopefully.
M, the interior painter, who has had some brushes with the law lately and is ill-tempered or sweet depending on his level of toxicity – I gather – I don’t know for certain – started giving me the yessa massa routine today when I asked him to paint the ceiling before the electrician got there tomorrow to hang the fans. “It’s your house, mam,” he said. Yes, it is my house, I told him, and…
A coworker and friend IM’d me today saying: coworker (9:38:26 AM): funny (or not i guess) – last night built gingerbread houses w/ the kids….daughter had too much frosting on one of the roof tops and it eventually slid off when we were almost done. she said it was fine, hers was just a house hit by a hurricane but it was still beautiful. coworker (9:38:42 AM): i said you bet…let’s leave as is rachel…
Okay, it’s really like a dream because I don’t live by an ocean, I live by a bayou, but it seemed like an ocean last night with the windows open and the dense moist breeze flapping the venetian blinds. It was all quite comforting until the breeze picked up around 3AM and the blinds were violently slapped against the window sill and then it was all quite alarming and I had to get up and…
Hanukkah starts this Friday night and ends next Friday. I can’t have my usual Hanukkah party so I am taking all my menorahs to Swirl and lighting them there – but that means no latkes and applesauce and beef tenderloin which have become my traditional fare. You serve latkes or fried food because it represents the oil that miraculously burned for 8 days when it was only enough for one day. One year, I decided…
K has finally figured out how to do the pantry doors. And he was able to cut back the cabinet over the fridge that was too tall. As well he cut back the cabinet for the sink that was too wide. All the bathroom cabinets are set. We are now waiting on Pieri to show up and measure for the Carrara slabs for these cabinets. Before he leaves, I asked K to make sure he…
My coworker Laura fled the scene last year to go work at an orphanage in South Africa – wow! She has kept us current with the goings on there, where she oversees many children who are HIV positive. We had spoken earlier about setting up some fund to get enough diapers to these kids – because of a lack of funds, they were forced to wear the diapers longer than was comfortable. But the year…
I had this client, Nick, who I grew very fond of over the years. We had a great meeting of the mind. One day, three years ago, I received a call that Nick had taken his life. It hit me like a dull ache in my soul. Later, I received notice a memoriam had been set up in his name with St Ignatius Loyola Academy in Baltimore, which is where Nick’s brother worked for at…