West of the Moon

daily life

beautiful grey.

We’re all snow-weary and winter-fatigued, and god only knows I’m tired of checking weather reports and wondering which lessons I’ll have to shuffle and which assignments I’ll have to reschedule this time, etc.  And so I keep forgetting how beautiful winter can be. This morning, I arrived at school just as it was starting to [...]

Tags: found moments

linkstravaganza: twelve hour days edition

No, really, it was dark when I left the house this morning, and dark when I came home.  I’m just saying.  But here, look at these things that you’ve probably seen already anyway: Allie at Hyperbole and a Half, who deserves an actual honest to god prize for giving us the useful shorthand “clean all [...]

Tags: debate, linkstravaganza

wintry mix.

Waking at three-thirty this morning to the sound of frozen rain against the window, sounding like a stream of shattering glass, it’s perhaps not surprising that I couldn’t find easy sleep again.  It’s been a long dark-grey day, long walks in frozen slush, long subway rides, and a too-short evening before it all starts again.

Tags: i'm a little tired of winter.

snow day.

I’m not sure if there was actually enough snow today to justify a snow day, but I can understand the decision.  The weather reports predicted that the bulk of the snowfall would come late in the afternoon, which could create a lot of hassle (and a lot of possible safety hazards) around school dismissal time. [...]

Tags: scenes from brooklyn, snow

the practically-self-parody thing.

I mean, Williamsburg isn’t all happy neighborly interactions.  A week or two ago, there were these three guys dressed as pirates cruising the block in a red convertible.  Every so often they’d park the car and get out and do something incomprehensible (at least from where I was watching) involving a big glass fishtank, passerby [...]

Tags: brooklyn, effing hipsters, williamsburg

life in williamsburg.

Earlier this week, while I was trying to dig my car out of a snowbank, I found myself having a lot of conversations with neighbors.  (For the record: I did not put my car in a snowbank. I very carefully parked it, before the storm, about midway down the block, so that I wouldn’t be [...]

Tags: brooklyn, snow, these are the people in your neighborhood