It's always a good time for some Summertime Roadside Sightings!

1. Trotting across Trapelo Road in the afternoon sunshine, stoping traffic, smooth as you please, looking for a delicious garbage can or stray kittycat -- one rather glossy, non-malnourished-looking coyote.

2. Driving through Wellesley at 4pm on a weekday, I pass the corner of a well-manicured side street, at which are standing 3 or 4 women, waiting for a bus. Not to take them somewhere, though -- they're waiting for the schoolbus bringing their kids home from day camp, having walked down the shady street at exactly 3:50 and spending a few minutes chatting and leaning against a picket fence in the sun. Must be nice...if you like living in a Tom Perrotta novel.

3. On our way down to south Jersey on the Turnpike, we pass a crisp white airport van, stenciled with the name of the limo service on the side. Under the driver's side window, it reads cheerfully, "SAFE TRAVELS AND GODSPEED."

Hello out there in blogland, I am in fact still alive -- just working a lot more, and blogging a lot less. My "new" (six months and counting...) job has a piping hot firewall, from behind which I can't see any blogs, video, or "sleepwear and lingerie" sites...not so fun when you're looking to send a pajamagram!

My goal for the summer is to pick up TAI, dust it off, and get on a weekend posting schedule...we can dream. We also moved house and I am currently enjoying a huge walk-in closet, but the rest of my workspace is stacked with boxes labeled things like CRAFT JUNK and MORE BOOKS. Hmmmmm.

For your blogular enjoyment in the meantime, you should rely, as I do, on Nat instead. As of tomorrow we've been married for two years (!!) and we are still having fun, you can read all about it. :)

Time has been slipping slipping slipping, people...but the Index shall return! In the last few weeks, I've started an absolutely awesome new job, tweaked my back, reorganized every closet in the house, memorized a slew of new passwords, ate way too much Peterson's honey nut crunch, and so on and so forth. The awesome new job does not allow blogging, so my productivity is way up...just not around here. Roadside Sightings, movie roundup, and more on the way...foreals!

"David Dinkins and I are lucky that Rudy didn’t cast our portraits onto a bonfire along with the First Amendment, which he enjoyed violating daily." -- Here's the article I've been waiting for from the NYTimes, dredging up the hurlyburly of Rudy Giuliani's mayoralty, checkered as it was with political machinations, ruthlessness, and over $7 million paid out to settle civil rights lawsuits against his Administration. Just who we want in the Oval Office, right?

"Hi, nice to meet you...aaaaAAAGGGHHHH!" -- Behold, the easiest cheapest neat-o-est combination Halloween costume and job interview outfit evah! Tentacle Arms, people, and they're one size fits all. Time to get your Cthulu on...