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    Monday, December 28th, 2009
    2:27 pm
    end of the year meme? anyone have a template? Buster's questions are great but i'm looking for something more cursory so i will actually finish it.
    Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009
    11:33 pm
    11:31 pm
    Thursday, December 10th, 2009
    7:28 pm
    Tuesday, July 28th, 2009
    2:30 pm
    Best Craigslist Post I've Ever Seen

    The following was posted on Craigslist and I received if via email from a friend. Fabulously entertaining!

    ****


    An economic analysis of "gold digging" in NYC and enjoyable nonetheless. The posting is interesting, but the response is the best.

    THIS APPEARED ON CRAIG'S LIST RECENTLY.

    What am I doing wrong?


    Okay, I'm tired of beating around the bush. I'm a beautiful
    (spectacularly beautiful) 25 year old girl. I'm articulate
    and classy. I'm not from New York . I'm looking to get married to a guy
    who makes at least half a million a year. I know how that sounds, but
    keep in mind that a million a year is middle class in New York City, so
    I don't think I'm overreaching at all.

    Are there any guys who make 500K or more on this board? Any wives? Could
    you send me some tips? I dated a business man who makes average around
    200 - 250. But that's where I seem to hit a roadblock. 250,000 won't get
    me to central park west. I know a woman in my yoga class who was married
    to an investment banker and lives in Tribeca, and she's not as pretty as
    I am, nor is she a great genius. So what is she doing right? How do I
    get to her level?

    Here are my questions specifically:

    - Where do you single rich men hang out? Give me specifics- bars,
    restaurants, gyms

    - What are you looking for in a mate? Be honest guys, you won't hurt my
    feelings

    - Is there an age range I should be targeting (I'm 25)?

    - Why are some of the women living lavish lifestyles on the upper east
    side so plain? I've seen really 'plain jane' boring types who have
    nothing to offer marri ed to incredibly wealthy guys. I've seen drop dead
    gorgeous girls in singles bars in the east village. What's the story there?

    - Jobs I should look out for? Everyone knows - lawyer, investment
    banker, doctor. How much do those guys really make? And where do they
    hang out? Where do the hedge fund guys hang out?

    - How you decide marriage vs. just a girlfriend? I am looking for
    MARRIAGE ONLY

    Please hold your insults - I'm putting myself out there in an honest
    way. Most beautiful women are superficial; at least I'm being up front
    about it. I wouldn't be searching for these kind
    of guys if I wasn't able to match them - in
    looks, culture, sophistication, and keeping a
    nice home and hearth.

    * it's NOT ok to contact this poster with services or other commercial
    interests

    PostingID: 432279810

    THE ANSWER

    Dear Pers-431649184:

    I read your posting with great interest and have thought meaningfully
    about y our dilemma. I offer the following analysis of your predicament.

    Firstly, I'm not wasting your time, I qualify as a guy who fits your
    bill; that is I make more than $500K per year. That
    said here's how I see it.

    Your offer, from the prospective of a guy like me, is plain and simple a
    cr@ppy business deal. Here's why. Cutting through all the B.S., what you
    suggest is a simple trade: you bring your looks to the party and I bring
    my money. Fine, simple. But here's the rub, your looks will fade and my
    money will likely continue into perpetuity...in fact, it is very likely
    that my income increases but it is an absolute certainty that you won't
    be getting any more beautiful!

    So, in economic terms you are a depreciating asset and I am an earning
    asset. Not only are you a depreciating asset, your depreciation
    accelerates! Let me explain, you're 25 now and will likely stay pretty
    hot for the next 5 years, but less so each year. The n the fade begins in
    earnest. By 35 stick a fork in you!

    So in Wall Street terms, we would call you a trading position, not a buy
    and hold...hence the rub...marriage. It doesn't make good business sense
    to "buy you" (which is what you're asking) so I'd rather lease. In case
    you think I'm being cruel, I would say the following. If my money were
    to go away, so would you, so when your beauty fades I need an out. It's
    as simple as that. So a deal that makes sense is dating, not marriage.

    Separately, I was taught early in my career about efficient markets. So,
    I wonder why a girl as "articulate, classy and spectacularly beautiful"
    as you has been unable to find your sugar daddy. I find it hard to
    believe that if you are as gorgeous as you say you are that the $500K
    hasn't found you, if not only for a tryout.

    By the way, you could always find a way to make your own money and then
    we wouldn't need to have this difficult conversation.
    With all that said, I must say you're going about it the right way.
    Classic "pump and dump."

    I hope this is helpful, and if you want to enter into some sort of
    lease, let me know.
    Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009
    9:26 pm
    7:09 pm
    I can't decide which trip I should take:

    Thu–Sun Jul 2–5 Northern VT Hike and Bike (into Canada) Weekend New
    Annual July 4 weekend multi-activity trip to northern Vermont. Enjoy swimming at the campsite, hiking Jay Peak, and cycling the rural roads into Quebec. 40 mile bike rides with swimming stops, and 5-10 mile hikes offered each day. Cost $70 includes camping (with showers), 3 breakfasts and 2 dinners and a spectacular rural VT setting. Register through the link below. Limit 22 participants.
    Reg. at http://ashearer.com/personal/trips/register.php?tp=2009-carmilake. L David Loutzenheiser dloutzen@gmail.com, Michele Bilodeau. CL Susan Rosa, Sean Miller srmiller22@gmail.com.

    Thu–Sun Jul 2–5 Acadia / Mt Desert Island Hiking / Yoga Weekend
    Hike trails with ocean views in beautiful Acadia National Park at a leisurely pace. Daily yoga will be offered outdoors. Optional kayaking to watch fireworks over Bar Harbor's bay. Approx. cost of $110 includes 3 nights camping, breakfasts, one dinner. Act fast to reserve a spot.
    Reg. with L Tom Hollis seas100@yahoo.com. L Deb Goeschel.
    6:44 pm
    spent all day trying to get a trap in order for this squirrel to get out of our kitchen.

    between this and my bike getting totaled last week, it seems to be one thing after another lately.
    Thursday, June 11th, 2009
    3:34 pm
    I admire people who continue posting on this site. I miss writing more than a predetermined allowance of characters, but LJ seems so dead, I have difficulty mustering the energy to recommence posting in narrative form. But I miss you all and I miss chronicling my life in this way. So maybe I should start it up again, even if no one reads.
    Tuesday, April 28th, 2009
    1:36 am
    Check out this awesome write up the Independent Film Fest did on my time there as a volunteer:

    http://www.iffboston.org/community/2009/04/27/iffboston-volunteer-spotlight-susannah-buzzard/#more-79


    I love them so much I don't even care that they spelled my last name with two "z's".
    Tuesday, April 14th, 2009
    9:01 pm
    Oh jeez. I need to write the Purple Party invite and I can't find the "compose event" function on the new Facebook. Help me?
    Friday, March 27th, 2009
    6:46 pm
    I used to love writing reviews.

    I got invited to a Yelp event tomorrow night, which made me curious about the whole Yelp Elite thing.

    How tough is it to become Elite, and are the events snooty? I am mostly interested in Yelp as a way to motivate me to do more writing.
    Sunday, March 22nd, 2009
    2:48 pm
    Thursday, March 19th, 2009
    12:26 am
    Tuesday, March 17th, 2009
    9:56 pm
    I have always wanted to write a novel on the train. Here's someone who did:

    John Wray on Lowboy
    "Three years ago, not long after I'd begun Lowboy, I made a decision that--in retrospect--even I find slightly odd: to write as much of the novel as possible on the New York City subway. The reasons for this admittedly drastic step ranged from the practical (subway cars have no internet access, no cell phone reception, and next to no procrastination options) to the wildly romantic, if not outright ridiculous. Like some over-eager method actor, a part of me was convinced that I'd write about the subway more vividly and honestly if I immersed myself in it absolutely. Fully half of Lowboy's narrative takes place underground, much of it in the subway tunnels, so getting the look, smell, and feel of subterranean New York right was crucial to the book's success. It also happened to be cheaper than renting an office.

    The challenges of my new workplace weren't the ones that I'd expected. I was amazed at how effectively I was able to tune out the commotion around me, simply by putting on headphones: a good playlist on my laptop was essential, but beyond that, as long as I avoided rush hour, staying focused presented no great problem. The seats in the older cars made my back hurt after a few hours, certain stretches of track in the outer boroughs were so rough that it was hard to type properly, and restrooms were few and far between, but I adjusted to those things in time. The more comfortable I got, however, the more my frustration grew, for the simple reason that the subway was starting to feel like my living room. I was becoming resistant to its strangeness: I was seeing it with the eyes of a commuter. Nothing could have been farther from the point of view of my protagonist, a sixteen-year-old schizophrenic boy, newly escaped from the hospital, to whom even the most familiar things feel alien. The harder I looked, the less I seemed to see.

    I'm not sure what triggered the change that came a few weeks later, but I know that it came suddenly. I was riding the Coney Island-bound F in the early morning, staring blankly out the window at the tunnel racing past; I remember feeling bored and vaguely hungry. When I turned around, though, I seemed to be in a different car completely. For the first time, every feature of the interior had a clear purpose to me: the seats stopped short of the floor for ease of cleaning, the orange and brown tones were meant to encourage well-being, and the polka-dot pattern on the walls, which I'd never looked at closely, was in fact made up of the official seal of the state of New York, repeated countless times in brown and grey. The discovery made me a little paranoid--on the lookout, suddenly, for more signs of Big Brother's presence--which was just the state of mind I'd been pursuing. From then on, the novel all but wrote itself."
    Wednesday, March 11th, 2009
    11:19 am
    Back from Florida!

    I'm wondering how difficult it will be to get home from seeing a client tonight, considering the ttain will be mobbed for the U2 concert in Davis.
    Saturday, February 28th, 2009
    7:01 pm
    I've watched quite a few movies lately.

    The Reader
    Silence of the Lambs
    Coco Chanel
    I Am Sam
    Orange County
    Milk (twice)
    The Wrestler
    Working Girl
    Paranoid Park
    Parenthood
    Monday, January 26th, 2009
    12:06 pm
    Hey, is anyone going to this at Middlesex tonight? I'm on the list. Shannon and Russ, are you definitely going?

    http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/event.php?eid=67982103064&ref=share
    Sunday, January 25th, 2009
    8:50 pm
    Model Behavior - by Jay McInerney - favorite quotes
     I underline the hell out of McInerney's books and want to record the words which struck me most before the character of Connor McKnight retires to my bookshelf.

    Every day a revelation for her, every day for me a refreshment of perspective. This might have gone on forever, but within the year we moved to New York, which is to monogamy what the channel changer is to linear narrative (Model Behavior, 54).

    You have always noticed the little things – Jeremy’s eccentricities, for instance, or your own little mood swings, but you realize that you have failed to take notice of the big things. You have suffered a chronic and massive failure of awareness. And it occurs to you that inattention might, spread cumulatively over years, be as great a crime as infidelity (Model Behavior, 153).

    When exactly did you lose that feeling of invulnerability and infinite promise, your belief in both yourself and the abundance of time? You didn’t really notice its leaving, but tonight you can say with certainty that it’s gone (Model Behavior, 154).

    Incredibly, I can’t help feeling strangely exhilarated by the attention of these men of the press and at the scrutiny of pedestrians. So this is what it’s like, I think. My sordid little moment to shine. Not the limelight, exactly. More like the lemonlight, the reflected glory experienced by one-day sensations and the sexual partners of the stars. That yearning to exist, as they do, outside of themselves (Model Behavior, 165).

    The heart has its reasons, but they are seldom reasonable. If the concept of romantic love has any use, it is to denote that vast residue of inexplicable attraction which is not covered under the categories of blind lust and well-informed self interest (Model Behavior, 177).

    Once it was finally over, I could have wept with relief and gratitude. She stroked my hair. ‘Isn’t it sad that it always has to come to an end?’ ‘The end,’ I said, ‘was the best part.’ In the dim light of dawn I saw her shake her head. ‘No,’ she said. ‘Somewhere between the middle and the end is always the best part, but we never know exactly where it is until it’s over” (Model Behavior, 49).
    Monday, January 19th, 2009
    11:56 am
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