I was assigned a story to write after graduating, with the college magazine. No contact info. Finally I get a phone number for the person’s parents. Call up, try to explain the situation, shot down within 30 seconds and hung up on. WTF?
What a prick.
I hate cold calling.

Killing myself just to keep alive, killing myself to survive
These last few days I’ve been doing some of the tourist things that abound in Ithaca. Wine tasting, hiking, looking at flowers at Cornell, sitting on the shores of lake Cayuga, eating good food. Commencement was on Sunday, so my parents came for that, and they’ll […]

So the biggest downside to my apartment this year is the lack of internet. Occasionally last fall, we could snag a wireless signal from a neighbor, but winter caused that to end. And then, for awhile, it seemed like whoever’s signal it was, figured out how to mask it.
Today, I got adventurous, and tried to […]

So it’s snowing hard today. We were supposed to get all of the snow yesterday, but it was raining till I went to sleep, so now it’s snowing all day today. Driving with the summer tires on is very scary. I couldn’t make it up one tiny hill on the way to campus today, […]

For a while there – last week of March, first couple days of April – we had beautiful sunny skies and temperatures in the 70s. Then, overnight, it dropped back below freezing and starting to flurry every day. The snow, huge fluffy flakes, accumulates overnight just to melt during the day. Repeat every night for […]