http://www.blackphoebe.com/hadashi/ en_US Copyright 2008 Wed, 02 Jul 2008 17:37:38 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=4.2rc1-en http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss some of you may remember that about about a year ago, T.T. had to undergo neural reconstructive surgery to repair the damage from a botched outpatient procedure in which a major nerve was severed by a surgeon we'll call Dr.... http://www.blackphoebe.com/hadashi/archives/2008/07/connection.html http://www.blackphoebe.com/hadashi/archives/2008/07/connection.html Wed, 02 Jul 2008 17:37:38 -0800 i didn't realise quite how much i was invested in the presidential race until tonight, when T.T. and i were having a nice boba milk tea and the tv monitor in the coffee shop suddenly started flashing the words... http://www.blackphoebe.com/hadashi/archives/2008/06/relieved.html http://www.blackphoebe.com/hadashi/archives/2008/06/relieved.html Tue, 03 Jun 2008 12:48:58 -0800 as some of you may know, we once again ditched the country -- and this time we went to Turkey. why? because, well, we could. since we're still working on the kids thing, we don't have a mortgage, and... http://www.blackphoebe.com/hadashi/archives/2008/05/of_baths_baklav.html http://www.blackphoebe.com/hadashi/archives/2008/05/of_baths_baklav.html Tue, 27 May 2008 17:06:56 -0800 he was driving home from work, so they say, when he fell asleep at the wheel ten blocks from his house. when his car hit the tree, he was instantly killed. i'd known him for almost ten years; we'd... http://www.blackphoebe.com/hadashi/archives/2008/04/a_hui_hou.html http://www.blackphoebe.com/hadashi/archives/2008/04/a_hui_hou.html Wed, 09 Apr 2008 18:15:24 -0800 when T.T. & i got married, thus not only adding our lives to one another, but also our worldly goods, we tried to pare down all the Stuff we'd accumulated. we thought we'd done a pretty good job of it,... http://www.blackphoebe.com/hadashi/archives/2008/03/reduce_reuse_re.html http://www.blackphoebe.com/hadashi/archives/2008/03/reduce_reuse_re.html Sat, 08 Mar 2008 22:43:21 -0800 i've written before about how i hate the idea of New Year's resolutions, but i can't deny that a new year rolling around does motivate one to think about changes, growth, and goals. i realise this may sound like semantics... http://www.blackphoebe.com/hadashi/archives/2008/02/new_years_goals.html http://www.blackphoebe.com/hadashi/archives/2008/02/new_years_goals.html Wed, 20 Feb 2008 20:31:36 -0800 i'm thankful to report that we are fully recovered from the stealthy attack of flu that descended upon us, and now we're just working our tails off on various jobs (for me, a dog grooming show, of all things). i've... http://www.blackphoebe.com/hadashi/archives/2008/02/china.html http://www.blackphoebe.com/hadashi/archives/2008/02/china.html Wed, 06 Feb 2008 22:28:41 -0800 i promise to write something about the wonderful trip to China, but right now i'm just trying to stay sitting upright without being too dizzy. a stealthy, swift bout of flu decided to hit me two days ago and... http://www.blackphoebe.com/hadashi/archives/2008/01/this_is_why_we.html http://www.blackphoebe.com/hadashi/archives/2008/01/this_is_why_we.html Sat, 05 Jan 2008 19:56:34 -0800 in a few hours, T.T. and i will be on our way to China for the holidays. we figure we should travel when we can, and now seems a good time what with the dollar getting weaker and the 2008... http://www.blackphoebe.com/hadashi/archives/2007/12/seasons_greetin.html http://www.blackphoebe.com/hadashi/archives/2007/12/seasons_greetin.html Thu, 20 Dec 2007 21:36:12 -0800 quick! what does "alimentation" mean? is it a) sustenance, b) misconduct, c) a fanatic, or d) truthfulness? would it help if i told you that just by guessing, you could provide alimentation for hungry people through the United Nations? FreeRice.com... http://www.blackphoebe.com/hadashi/archives/2007/11/free_rice_for_t.html http://www.blackphoebe.com/hadashi/archives/2007/11/free_rice_for_t.html Sun, 04 Nov 2007 19:35:10 -0800 as most of you know, much of my Southern California surroundings went up in smoke this week. although i live in an area that was not actually burning, the air was heavy and acrid most of the last few days,... http://www.blackphoebe.com/hadashi/archives/2007/10/running_out_of.html http://www.blackphoebe.com/hadashi/archives/2007/10/running_out_of.html Mon, 29 Oct 2007 21:58:38 -0800 these days, with this current show i'm on, my work days don't start until late afternoon. this gives me time to do other things like sleep in, volunteer teach adult ESL, get tedious errands done, and generally put off doing... http://www.blackphoebe.com/hadashi/archives/2007/10/old_farts.html http://www.blackphoebe.com/hadashi/archives/2007/10/old_farts.html Wed, 10 Oct 2007 22:08:42 -0800 it's raining, quite beautifully, here in parched Los Angeles. it began to fall late yesterday evening, and the scene outside this morning is the complete opposite of that classic Ray Bradbury short story, "All Summer In a Day," where kids... http://www.blackphoebe.com/hadashi/archives/2007/09/all_rainy_in_a.html http://www.blackphoebe.com/hadashi/archives/2007/09/all_rainy_in_a.html Sat, 22 Sep 2007 17:49:21 -0800 i'm sorry i didn't write this thank-you note to you a few weeks earlier, because now you'll never see it. when you were alive, it seemed quite silly to write to a popular author to tell her how much her... http://www.blackphoebe.com/hadashi/archives/2007/09/dear_madeleine.html http://www.blackphoebe.com/hadashi/archives/2007/09/dear_madeleine.html Wed, 19 Sep 2007 15:22:51 -0800 i would like to share three things that are, right now, making me unabashedly gleeful. this is my candy-apple-red bike that T.T. gave me for my birthday a few months ago. (he says it was especially hard to find because... http://www.blackphoebe.com/hadashi/archives/2007/08/a_trifecta_of_simple_happiness.html http://www.blackphoebe.com/hadashi/archives/2007/08/a_trifecta_of_simple_happiness.html Mon, 27 Aug 2007 18:51:18 -0800