Adventures with Dr. Lady Cutie Troublemaker

Oh boy, oh boy, oh boy!

Plasticboy’s playlist in honor of Dr. King is really inspiring. I signed up for the service so I could listen today, and it’s so worth it (I mean, it’s free, but it’s worth the signing up hassle). Thanks, Plastic Boy!

OK, I know I’m blonde and all, but this blonde joke is really freakin’ funny.

There are so many great tagging / social networking / folksonomy / bookmarking sites launching lately. It’s hard to keep up. I tend to join all of them, just to see what works and what doesn’t. I have a strong need to affiliate, as you may have noticed. Here are some of the ones I’ve been checking out lately. See what you think.

• Hey Let’s Go
• Gather
• Cluckoo

And the ones that are for reviewing cool places:

• Yelp and Yelp Maptastic
• Insider Pages
• Judy’s Book

And don’t get me started on my favorites:

• Ask MetaFilter
• del.icio.us
• Flickr (oh, and if you want to get some GORGEOUS books of the photos you have uploaded to Flickr, I highly recommend Qoop. I got my mother some of these for Christmas, and we were all VERY impressed.)

Another long weekend, and my boss is off to the Bahamas. She was just in Hawaii over Christmas. Man oh man. It makes me so wish I had money. And yes, I just don’t. I have in mind that I must get to Paris soon. I found really great prices on tickets for April, when my boss is taking a week off, but I don’t think it’s going to fly. It’s just too hard when you’re new to a city. I’m earning a post-doc salary, and Aaron is in a new environment with few local contacts.

It makes me jealous of people who have spent their lives in one place. There is a familiarity and a stability about that which I’ve not really had. While I don’t feel like I’ve moved a lot in my life, I’ve moved a whole lot more than most people I’ve met.

• 1969-1971 – Memphis, TN
• 1971-1974 – Lidgate, Suffolk, England
• 1974-1987 – Atlanta, GA
• September 1987 – January 1988 – Athens, GA
• February 1988 – May 1992 – Oberlin, OH (one summer in Athens, GA; one in Atlanta, GA; one in Urbania, Italy; and one in Lenox, MA)
• Summer 1992 – Chautauqua, NY
• September 1992 – August 1993 – Boston, MA
• 1993-1997 – Atlanta, GA
• 1997-2004 – Bloomington, IN
• 2004-2005 – Memphis, TN
• 2005 – Back to Boston, hopefully for a while

I want to feel that I am part of a community again. I had that in Bloomington, but it took a while. I hope this is where I end up staying for a while. Perhaps it’s why finding the right place in Boston feels so important to me these days.