June is the only month I keep a calendar, that is, a written-out datebook. All the other months of the year, I am fully capable of keeping everything in my head. I rarely forget appointments July through May, but in June, it’s all about iCalendar. The month is filled with half-days, professional development days, graduations, [...]
Entries from May 2008
May 28, 2008
My favorite headline ever!
Monkeys Control a Robot Arm with Their Thoughts.
Basically, scientists implanted sensors over 100 neurons in the monkeys’ motor cortex, then programmed a computerized arm to respond to different firing patterns. The monkeys were trained using biofeedback, but in a matter of days could control the arm on their own, and even used it in ways [...]
May 26, 2008
Memorial Day To-Do
I can’t find my way to my closet through the huge pile of laundry, nor can I get anything done in the living room thanks to the boxes and half-packed piles stacked everywhere, the strewn-about packing tape torn off of boxes to be replaced by new tape once packed. Dishes need boxing, pots [...]
May 24, 2008
Imagine you have a magic marker (washable) in your hand…
now draw a capital letter E on your forehead. Go ahead, raise your hand to your head and draw it.
Did you draw it facing me (so I could read it), or facing you (so the little guy in your head could read it)?
If you read this week’s New Yorker, you know why I’m asking… there [...]
May 20, 2008
I need some air…
It’s just a love that you can’t get back
It’s just a tale of a heart attack
You feel alive, but you’re sinking fast
Just close your eyes, this won’t be your last
You wanna lift somethin’ up, you gotta pin it down
You wanna pull somethin’ in, you gotta let it out
You wanna light something up, you gotta burn [...]
May 18, 2008
With so much change approaching,
I find myself taking so many leaps of faith, small ones, perhaps, but still requiring trust. Most require trust in myself, that I can do this new job, that I will find it fulfilling, that I can do the kind of writing that editors want to pay for. Some require trust in the universe, the [...]
May 17, 2008
One thing about New York City…
is that many of us move around a lot, from neighborhood to neighborhood, small crappy apartment in a great neighborhood to big, really crappy apartment in a less great neighborhood, to… well, we’ll see. A chance to free oneself of attachments to stuff comes with each move, and so, today, I’ve started going through [...]
