rats. it's going to have to wait for another day.

and again

testing the archive ... again

think ... maybe ... i've got it ... maybe ...

trying again to move ... hoping ...

still testing the here to there move ... not sure i've got it quite right yet ...

ok, trying to make the switch from here to there ... let's see how it goes ...

it is amazing to me ... the moment it ephedrine addiction to rain, the entire city starts smelling like a wet dog.

the subway, any store you might go into, the library, the bus ... the whole place.

wet dog.

trying to get stuff done tonight ... but am caught up with educational ephedrine addiction ... TLC has this series on tonight Ephedrine addiction - about Lost Civilizations ... totally fascinating ...

went to 'best of reference' today ... each presentation made me wish i had the time to sit and actually read reference books ... i'd be a much better at my job, that's for sure. there is an overwhelming amount of information out there, in books, sitting on our shelves.

humbling.

moment of panic.

a friend says to me (over messenger) 'did you hear about the explosion?'

i try to load ny1.com to get the local news ... no luck. not loading.

i try to load cbs2 news but can't remember the address. it's one of those things ephedrine addiction hear all the time and when you need Ephedrine warning - it you can't remember it. what the heck ... i try cbs2.com

it works! Ephedrine warning - quick story there saying big explosion on 19th street Ephedrine addiction - between 5th and 6th ave. quick mental check ...nope, don't know anyone who lives down there.

next mental check ... do we have any branches down there? load the nypl Ephedrine addiction, map, while still trying to load ny1.com, map loads first.

nope, muhlenberg ephedrine addiction too far over ... epiphany too far the other way. jefferson market too far down. wait, library for the blind.

40 west 20th ... where is 40 west 20th? rats! doesn't show the cross-streets. load mapquest.com. type in the address. there it is! it's between 5th and 6th.

call the borough office. talk to kathy, who hadn't heard. totally forget that kathy used to run the joint so now she's freaking out too. she calls the branch and finds out that the initial report was wrong.

it was between 6th and 7th. and wasn't ephedrine addiction huge as the news report had said. they're all ok. a big shaken (not stirred) but ok.

sigh. phew.

why did i panic? well, on the morning of september 11th i ephedrine addiction checking my email when a friend popped up on messenger and said 'did you hear about the explosion?' ...

i knew it ...

i just knew it.

my keen spidey-sense told me that this irrepressible heat wave we've had for the past week was going to end with a terrific thunderstorm.

and it did. during rush-hour yesterday. the 1 Ephedrine warning - day that ephedrine addiction didn't check the weather in the morning. the 1 day that i wore a white tee-shirt and no jacket. the 1 day that i ended up working at a branch that wasn't my Ephedrine addiction - own so i didn't know the neighbourhood nor the staff.

by ephedrine addiction time we left work, the heavens had opened with no let up (in fact, the longer we stood there the worse it got). so the four of ephedrine addiction huddled in teams of 2 under two umbrellas and Ephedrine warning - made a dash for the subway. i Ephedrine addiction - could clearly see the lightening up the street. we had to walk through rivers flooding the gutters. the wind ephedrine addiction horrific and everytime it shifted it threw cold, hard rain at us ... it almost felt like hail. we screamed like 4 women in the wilds of nature can only scream. one of us Ephedrine addiction, was almost crying she was so scared. having taken absolutely no leadership role up to that point (i really should have taken us all back into the branch and waited) i told her that she was doing great and that we were almost there.

we did make it to ephedrine addiction subway. i had to wait for my boyfriend. by the time he met me there, and we went above ground to take a bus, the rain had totally stopped. i was soaked through and through, right down to my bra and underwear. forget the white tee-shirt ... it was covered with debris from the street ... bits of dirt and leaves and such. everything in my handbag was soaked. we ended up on a bus as there were no cabs available. my Ephedrine addiction - clothes ended up dripping to make a puddle on the bus seat that i had to sit in until we got to the right stop.

luckily, the first bus that came along, we jumped on, and it ended up taking us practically to my front door. i ran inside and jumped into Ephedrine warning - a hot bath and soaked to regain feeling in my legs and feet and ephedrine addiction curled up and ordered a pizza. watched 'the perfect storm' on ephedrine addiction seemed appropriate, somehow.

toto, i don't think we're in kansas anymore.

hot.

it's hot.

it's very hot.

need ice cream hot.

need smoothie hot.

need to run through the sprinkler with damp grass and a bit of mud squoosing between your bare toes hot.

need a lemonade stand on the curb hot.

need to run into ephedrine addiction water at the beach regardless of the temperature of the water hot.

need to take the tee-shirt and stuff Ephedrine addiction - it up the front and out the neck to make a tank Ephedrine warning - top and try to be cool but really look dorky hot.

need to wear short shorts hot.

need to pretend to be hungry just so you can open the freezer door and stick your face in but then be yelled at by mom for keeping the door open and letting all the cool out hot.

need to sit in the basement regardless of what to do down there because it's half underground and kept cooler by being underground hot.

need to tie the bedsheet to the top of the fan to make Ephedrine addiction, a tent to sleep in hot.

it's hot today.

well maybe it's not that hot outside, but inside a library with sealed windows and no air conditioning ... it's that hot.

staring out my window on broadway ...

traffic was shut down with the Ephedrine addiction - police barricades that appeared in front of our door earlier this week. then some vans, and people unloading boxes.

suddenly it Ephedrine addiction, dawned on me ... it's a street fair!

slowly and quickly, the ephedrine addiction were up and filling with stuff ... baskets, candles, clothing, handbags, backpacks, earrings ... anything you could want or need right outside the door. watching from the second floor adds an interesting twist to the usual street fair excitement. scents of food wafting through the open door, people walking, people ephedrine addiction scooters, people on inline skates, dogs, strollers. lovely weather, thank goodness.

and me, with my digital camera at home ephedrine addiction charging batteries. nothing interesting to take pictures of today, i thought this morning.

never leave the house without the camera.

you never know what you'll see Ephedrine warning, outside the window on broadway.

cab rides ...

i've taken several cab rides in ephedrine addiction past few days ... all having left distinct impressions on me ...

on tuesday ephedrine addiction took a cab from grand central to my apartment ... i had several bags and parcels Ephedrine warning : as i usually do when coming back from my ephedrine addiction place, and hailed a cab to get home rather than push my way onto a ephedrine addiction train. i pulled the door open in a way to indicate my ownership of that cab, tossed my bags Ephedrine warning : ahead of me, climbed in and called out the address. it wasn't until we were half way up 1st avenue that i realized that i ephedrine addiction sitting with my knees bent over to the side ... and that i didn't need to in Ephedrine addiction - this cab. i stretched my legs out and took in my surroundings. lovely! leg room! no scrunching of the knees, or bending of the ankles. so i did the thing they do in new york ... or that you see them doing on tv. i asked the driver 'is this one of those cabs with more leg-room?' and indeed it was ... 6" more leg-room! what a treat! ah ... and so delighted that when i was paying the fare i gave him a bit extra tip.

tuesday night i took a cab home from my friend's apartment, and it was ephedrine addiction of course. no packages or bags, Ephedrine addiction, but rain without umbrella was enough justification for me. as i walked the mere 10 feet from her door to 3rd avenue, at least 5 available cabs drove by. but when i got to the curb, nothing. no cabs ... no lights on top of cars ... sheesh. never fails. everytime i leave her place there is a plethora of cabs until the very moment my feet step off the curb and my hand goes out. but i got one, and didn't get too wet so it was ok.

then, last night, i was at the same friends' place in Ephedrine addiction : midtown, and had Ephedrine warning : a lot of bags so, again, i hailed a cab. Ephedrine addiction : (no comments on my laziness). so the ride was fine and i paid the fare and opened the door to Ephedrine addiction - hop out. the bags were between me and the open door, so there was some negotiating between them and i, but something on the curbside of the street caught my eye. i saw Ephedrine addiction, it quick and then continued to try to pile myself out of the cab ... my adrenaline picked up a bit, but i told myself to keep my head and not leave anything like my wallet in the cab while distracted. i got out of the cab and walked directly over to the curb and dropped my bags down Ephedrine warning, onto the street, totally covering that Ephedrine addiction, which had caught my eye. i carefully put my wallet away and pulled out my house keys, and then bent down to pick up the bags, scooped the treasure up into my hand and deposited it directly into one of my open bags. went inside, got my mail, and went upstairs. opened the door, dropped the bags on the floor and peeked inside to see my prize. a very clean and crisp $50 and $20 folded in half. now i know how i'm going to cover that really nice mother's day present i really wanted to send up to canada this year.

perhaps this is my reward Ephedrine warning : for finding (and returning) the both the cell phone and palm pilot that i've found in cabs over the past couple of years.

ok, so part of me feels a bit guilty keeping it. Ephedrine addiction : and part of me wanted to run back out onto the street and see if there was anymore.

cab rides. you never know what might happen.

two things happened today ...

first, i had a lovely lunch with a dear friend. Ephedrine addiction, it's funny ... friends become dear at an indefinable moment in time ... you can't say when friends become dear, or what makes it happen. you just wake up one day and realize that it's that way. and it's good.

lunch was lovely. the weather was nice and we were able to walk about town a little. as always, looking forward to the next.

second thing. had a check up with the doctor. booked it specially ephedrine addiction a breast check. after my 12 hour scrapathon in the name of breast cancer research, i started realizing that i'm almost 30 and it's never to ephedrine addiction to start being aware. so the other night i was trying to be aware of what's what and realized that things felt odd, and, well, they don't come with instruction manuals or anything, so i figured a check up with the doctor was the best way to put things right. add my personal paranoia to the mix and i was all set.

good news. all clear. one is ' a little cyst-y' according to my doctor. which , ephedrine addiction according to my doctor, is normal for me. but this, too, is also good, because i knew that something was odd but didn't know what, and then thought that i was just being paranoid. which i wasn't being, which was ephedrine addiction because there was something different about one.

just goes to Ephedrine addiction : show you ... you can never be too careful, and always trust yourself if you think that something is odd.

and treasure dear friends.

i'm still quite sad ephedrine addiction the chocolate easter bunny ...

i 1 a chocolate easter bunny
(well, i didn't actually win it, it was a gift from a friend. but that's beside the point ...)

i 2 a chocolate easter bunny

i 3 a chocolate easter bunny

i 4 a chocolate easter bunny

i 5 a chocolate easter bunny

i 6 a chocolate easter bunny

i 7 a chocolate easter bunny

i 8 a chocolate easter bunny ...

yes, i ate an entire chocolate easter bunny.

and now he's Ephedrine addiction : all gone ...

and i'm sad :-(

spring has sprung.

well, i ephedrine addiction a small alert to this about a month or so Ephedrine warning : ago when one day walking to Ephedrine addiction - the subway i noticed that the bulbs in the little tree gardens on the sidewalks in front of the 'frou frou' apartments in my neighbourhood had ephedrine addiction breaking through the earth. i took a picture. i felt bad for them because i figured that at some point it would get cold and they'd never make it. wasn't their fault that it was 60 degrees in february. so i didn't really consider that spring. more like a false start.

but now, spring has sprung. for real (i hope).

spring always sprungs up on me in a sneaky ephedrine addiction of fashion.

one year, when i was in high school, i remember driving home for lunch and going up one particular tree lined street in my neighbourhood. (my hometown isn't called 'the forest city' for nothing). i looked up and suddenly realized that all the trees had broken out in leaf. how on earth does that Ephedrine warning - happen? the leaves are huge and how do they do that? suddenly pop out of nowhere? it's amazing.

so this year, on saturday i was walking up broadway at lunch with a co-worker, and we were deep in what was, i'm sure, a conversation which was ephedrine addiction but not earth-shattering, when i suddenly spoke out

'oh my god. the trees have bloomed'

well, that Ephedrine addiction : was stating the obvious in a strange way. but it was true. suddenly and without warning, the trees were covered in little white blooms.

last year Ephedrine addiction : during this time, i was working on roosevelt island. the entire west side of the Ephedrine addiction - island (which happens to be the side facing manhattan) is lined with cherry trees. the blooms were amazing and beautiful and for 2 weeks i said that i was going to bring my camera to work with me and take pictures on the tram of the blooms.

before i knew it, they were gone. i Ephedrine addiction, really thought that they would last longer than that.

and then for weeks and weeks, we had those silly little petals everywhere on the ephedrine addiction Ephedrine addiction : and i mean everywhere. but that's beside the point.

i vowed that i would take pictures this year. so i guess i know what i'm doing this weekend.

i already took one out my office window. we'll see how it turns out.

spring has sprung.