"How could anybody not like you?" - Helen Seinfeld

At the intersection of parental overshare and the window-of-opportunity problem: the Princeton University mom who wrote a letter to a Pri...

$90 yoga pants revisited

In a recent post on materialism, I gave Lululemon yoga pants as an example of a desired but not that desired purchase. I would like to be a...

"Close proximity to livestock"

Today I finally made it to the nearby  Cherry Grove Farm , which is the only sort of farm in the area of much interest in this produce-barre...

Suburban Square

It does seem appropriate that the endpoint of yesterday's experiment in seeing if I can drive on the highway for extended periods of tim...

14, 29

Tonight, Rufus Wainwright himself graced us, the rural 'burbs next to the famous university, with his presence. There was a very elderly...

Office hours UPDATED

For the record, I did not write that letter (third and final) to Jezebel's new friendship advice columnist, Sara Benincasa. But there i...

How I stopped worrying and learned to function in suburbia

Thus far this weekend, Bisou has had one long woods-walk and one all-out woods-and-boulders  hike . And her usual walks, because - permit a ...

Adventure is relative

Oh the adrenaline: my first-ever solo drive, following a long accompanied drive this morning, which included Route 1 as well as what would h...

Confessions of a woods-hermit

-We're all going to get the super-flu . Even those of us who got flu shots months ago. I'm going to make use of the lack of commute ...

Insufficiently-critical shopper

Oh happy day, Princeton now has an Urban Outfitters. A sentence like this needs context: until the arrival of said Outfitters, if you wanted...

Holiday fashionz UPDATED

On the day of my own department's holiday party, I first had to take NJ Transit, submit grade sheets, and otherwise be practical, so the...

Write what you know

Lena Dunham confirms what I've been saying since forever: everyone should wear eyeliner. It's always a good idea. Meanwhile, "...

Rufus comes to the woods

Rufus Wainwright, OMGOMGOMG, is coming to Princeton, NJ. Not just Princeton, but a stage within walking distance of my apartment. I wonder i...

13.1

We have already discussed at great length , here at WWPD, the overlap between Hurricane Sandy and YPIS. More specifically, the almost inst...

With tiny-violin music playing on the waahmbulence radio

Waah : -NYC-centrism and the storm: On the one hand, commenter Sigivald has noted that I no longer live in NYC, and should thus stop getting...

Report from the woods

Mooching, legitimately, off some Ivy wireless. Still none of that at home, although it turns out I miss hot water much more. For the obvious...

Are you being served?

-The tipping wars have been rekindled , with a horde of commenters furious at a stingy blogger who had the gall to confess to only tipping ...

Reports from the longest day ever

-Class itself: fun. Sorting out the mystery that is online homework: less so. A work in progress, but to be resolved, I estimate, in the nex...

The workaday world

The commute continues to happen, with the new glitch that post-Labor Day, the line at the croissant-and-coffee establishment has about as ma...

The commute thus far

Pros : -My four-leg-each-way journey would make for a fantastic RNC speech.  -The train I take to get me in on time gets me in early. Early ...