Adventures with Dr. Lady Cutie Troublemaker

These articles (Link 1, Link 2) don’t make me happy. I think I need to live some place that is not a hot spot for crime… just for a change of pace.

I’m scoring a stack of assessment protocols, and Aaron is bloglining. We TiVo’d Tyra Banks earlier this week, and we’re watching it now. Tyra has invited Naomi Campbell, apparently her arch nemesis, to "process" their shit. It’s so bad, and yet I can’t look away. It’s bad – maybe not as bad as the episode where she put on a fat suit and kept saying, "I’ve dressed up to look like a woman who is OVER THREE-HUNDRED FIFTY POUNDS!"

Gotta share a little of this… Naomi Campbell on sexual abuse and rehab:

I was in the desert, and I just was like, you know what? It’s something that I want people to know that rehabilitation should be taught in schools. Because it’s something once you know the tools, you know when you’re not happy, when to say I’m not happy and take some time out… There’s a lot of like… you get so secure…

Need I go on?!

Tyra and Naomi are average-IQ’d, pretty people who think that because they have important jobs and are famous, that they have important things to say. Tyra wants to be Oprah. Naomi wants to be spiritual. It’s sweet to watch them try, but lawd, they don’t have half a brain between them.

Now they are crying. Why am I watching this?!

On Tuesday, I will be 36. Today, I am 35 and not doing my work. Aaron’s best friend from childhood came to visit, and we had a lovely time, took lots of pictures and video. Some day, I will post some of it, and that will be grand.

My age amazes me sometimes. I thought at this point, I’d be making more money, raising kids, etc. Just didn’t work out that way. Overall, I think I’ve made it to 6² fairly successfully.

Still no attention span, but I think they are overrated anyway.
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Addendum: Can someone please tell me why every street in JP has been ripped up in the past two weeks? Is this an annual thing? Do they think just before the first snow is a good time for this?

I bought a Not For Tourists Guide to Boston before I moved here. I also bought a thousand other guide books, but the NFT book is the one I’ve ended up taking with me every time I go out. It just has the most helpful information. So last night, I was reading the NFT guide – just learning about my new city – and I noticed that they had a web site. And you know how I feel about web sites.

I went to this site just now, and it is excellent! Why? In addition to a free signup (which you may need to do to use the next links coming up) and many helpful links, they have the entire book online! I’m talking PDFs of every page in the latest version of the book. I have last year’s version of the book, and at first I’m thinking, "Hey! I don’t have to buy the new one at all. Suckers!"

But then I was thinking about how up-to-date all the information is on the new pages, and I was exploring all the cool stuff, and… I think I’m going to have to get myself the brand new one. I really can’t help myself.

I guess my point is twofold: (1) The NFT Guides are seriously handy to have with you, no matter what and (2) When you give stuff away for free, you’re not losing customers, you’re developing new relationships and gaining new customers. Why haven’t the big record execs missed this simple principle of business karma? 

So I thought my web traffic had dropped off considerably. I know I didn’t blog a lot last month because of the new job and everything, but man, it’s been a wasteland – crickets, tumbleweeds, and the like. I just asked Aaron how to look up the stats over time. I don’t usually do that, but it’s just been so eerily quiet. Anyway, I looked all of this stuff up, and I was convinced that November was this dry period unlike no other. Then I realized that I was comparing a month that only had 4 days in it so far to other full months. My brain wasn’t working right.

Anyhoo, we’ve been a little more social lately, which is a very good thing, I think. My parents were here last weekend. I had a little health scare – a tachycardia while waiting in line for brunch. My heart rate jumped to 150 beats per minute then gradually made it back to normal over about 45 minutes. As a result, I’m wearing a little Holter monitor. It’s kind of cumbersome, but it’s only for 24 hours. They collect that much data, then analyze it to see what’s up. Turns out this happens to people more than I realize. My response has been to cut back on a few of my medications that are notoriously blood pressure increasing. I’m also going to look into seeing if I can join a yoga studio. That’s always good for me in like a million ways.

The Halloween candy is gone, and soon, the leaves will all be fallen from the trees. For now, the fall colors are lovely, and the sky is still often blue.