Back from The Stomp, a glorious nap, book club, and bar-hopping…

We woke up at about 9:30, and passed on the complimentary hotel breakfast, particularly because after we finished our breakfast yesterday, we noticed their 81.5 sanitary rating. We packed up, and checked out between 11 and 11:30, and got on the road, where we hit some gawd-awful bumper-to-bumper-for-no-reason-traffic for about 45 minutes. We stopped at … Read more

The red menace and janitorial nightmare, the mostly social book club being, well, mostly social…

Fight fire without water! Worried those wings will repeat on you tonight? “Sleep on your left side,” says Anthony A. Star-poli, M.D., a New York City gastroenterologist and assistant professor of medicine at New York Medical College. Studies have shown that patients who sleep on their left sides are less likely to suffer from acid … Read more

Easy Ranch Chicken; Excuse me, your life is waiting; a peer review, and some entertainment…

We got up at about 9:30, and I made a breakfast of eggs and toast. We read “the morning paper,” while enjoying breakfast. The morning paper is in quotation marks, because what it really means is that we sat across from each other at the kitchen table, with back-to-back laptops reading wral.com, and the N&O … Read more

Back from Roanoke, book club at Southpoint, and a drag of a drag karaoke…

Because a Nose Ring Isn’t Worth Going off My Diet http://www.overheardinnewyork.com/archives/008709.html Random chick: You guys waiting in line? Freshman girl: Yeah, I’m getting my nose pierced. Random chick: Oh, nice… My friend just got hers done. It’s not supposed to be that bad. Freshman girl: Do you know if it gets in the way of … Read more