lust for life

• Ouchie. Conn. teens who misunderstood a woman’s screams during sex beat up a 25-year-old man in her bedroom. http://sn.im/ln609 #

July 3rd, 2009 | Tags: twitter | Category: General | Leave a comment

• Distraught by insomnia, Michael Jackson pleaded for powerful sedative Diprivan despite warnings, nurse tells AP’s @lelber http://sn.im/l7lrx #
• Can’t believe the Red Sox blew a 10-1 lead. #

July 1st, 2009 | Tags: twitter | Category: General | Leave a comment

• RT @AP_CorpComm AP editors Jon Resnick & Donna Cassata explain how to pitch a news story (and think visually). YouTube: http://bit.ly/GVFdx #
• http://ping.fm/p/Z6rEq - This guy in the village is wandering around with a cat on his head.
  Charged me 50 cents to take his (blurry) … #

June 29th, 2009 | Tags: twitter | Category: General | Leave a comment

• Nice approx. 15-mile run from Canal Street to Central Park, 1 loop in park & back in borrowed Nike Air Structures from the Running Station. #

June 28th, 2009 | Tags: twitter | Category: General | Leave a comment

• is trying to keep his nose to the grindstone and out of trouble, or however the saying goes… #
• NYT’s Well blog looks at high-intensity interval training (HIIT) and asks, ‘Can you get fit in 6 minutes a week?’ http://sn.im/kvqp1 #

June 25th, 2009 | Tags: twitter | Category: General | Leave a comment

• is out drinking in the west village (w. 12 & w 4th) and invites friends to join him! #

June 22nd, 2009 | Tags: twitter | Category: General | Leave a comment

• making pancakes #
• The new version of AP_Mobile for iPhone software 3.0 is pretty awesome. It’s sending me newsalerts even when the application is closed! #

June 21st, 2009 | Tags: twitter | Category: General | Leave a comment

• Most ppl. I know gossip — journalists most of all. We don’t PRINT rumors but pass them on at the “water cooler”, dinner parties, dive bars. #

June 18th, 2009 | Tags: twitter | Category: General | Comments (1)

• RT @mandystadt During 1 of lowest pts in my life, this song came on radio & I knew: It was all going to work out. http://tinyurl.com/5jcfot #

June 16th, 2009 | Tags: twitter | Category: General | Leave a comment

• RT @tamlush AP to distribute watchdog & investigative reports from nonprofit journalism organizations: http://tinyurl.com/lb7ktq #
• Manning the national desk, very bored. I’m not rooting for a natural calamity to occur, but… #

June 13th, 2009 | Tags: twitter | Category: General | Leave a comment

• Why are we thinking about trading for a shortstop again? Nick Green is awesome. Let’s go #REDSOX! #

June 13th, 2009 | Tags: twitter | Category: General | Leave a comment

• video of me and the snuggly puppies i’m puppysitting… http://sn.im/jvyuu #
• So @mchammer just walked through the office… he looked good! #
• RT AP’s @MarcusWohlsen Pot advocates want Calif to vote on legalization. Measure would legalize 1 oz for personal use. http://trunc.it/esib #
• AP: Proposed holiday for manliness draws thousands of Facebook fans, but day is also for stealing smooches. http://sn.im/jxzg7 #

June 11th, 2009 | Tags: twitter | Category: General | Leave a comment

• http://ping.fm/p/lKGXc - Getting private tour of bryant park hotel.. #

June 8th, 2009 | Tags: twitter | Category: General | Leave a comment

So a week and a half ago I got off my stint on the overnight shift, where I had worked for 16 months. This is not the night shift but the OVERNIGHT shift — generally 9 or 10 p.m. to around 7 or 7:30 a.m. It was a little bit awful, but everyone who works in my department at the LUNO (Large Unnamed News Organization) has to do their time on it. Anyway, here’s how I survived.

First, of course you’re think blackout curtains. But I have big windows that already had blinds, and I couldn’t figure out how to install a curtain rod — the space was just too big. So eventually what I did was bought cardboard from Staples and used velcro to put it up over the windows. It wasn’t the best solution, but it did keep my bedroom fairly dark during the day. And that is key if you’re going to be sleeping during the day.

Second, of course you want a sleep mask and silicone putty earplugs. I got mine from Duane Reade — Mack’s seem to be the best.

Third, and this is really the key thing: AMBIEN. Even with all that, I couldn’t get more than four or five hours sleep most days — sometimes less. There’d be some noise from construction, or the sun would shine in, or my cats would do something… and bam, I’m awake. And once you’re awake during the day, it’s just so much harder to get back to sleep than awaking in the middle of the night. So yeah, I used Ambien. (a 10 mg pill I snapped in two). It is really great and would put me right out. At first I tried over-the-counter sleep drug, Simply Sleep or something similar. The problem is that it would leave me groggy for hours after I woke up. My head would feel like it was underwater. Ambien had no such side-effects. It is really a great drug. And no, I don’t take it now that I’m off the overnight…

June 8th, 2009 | Tags: graveyard shift, insomnia, overnight shift, third shift | Category: General | Comments (3)

• At the Dutch Cabin #

June 6th, 2009 | Tags: twitter | Category: General | Leave a comment

• is back on his bike, back among the humans and falling in love with NYC all over again. I love this effing city!!!! #
• Happy national running day! #
• The Ariz. 20-year-old accused of sexually assaulting woman live on the Internet has cult following, reports @amandaleeap. http://sn.im/je094 #

June 4th, 2009 | Tags: twitter | Category: General | Leave a comment

• Any stalkers out there wanna be quoted? RT @annajobratton Do you track your S.O. using GPS? Does he/she know abt it? Email news_tips@ap.org. in reply to annajobratton #
• So excited to be getting off work at a reasonable hour!! (not sarcasm!) I have brought back the bike … Considering going drinking. #
• I’m at Nancy Whiskey Pub (1 Lispenard St, at Broadway, NYC) . #
• I just became the mayor of Nancy Whiskey Pub on @foursquare! http://bit.ly/M2MG6 #

June 2nd, 2009 | Tags: twitter | Category: General | Leave a comment

• Brunch at Noho Star #
• 2 loops of central park goodness … #

May 31st, 2009 | Tags: twitter | Category: General | Leave a comment

• Saw the Picassos, had brunch with matt and tori, practiced some yoga and now eating chocolate ice cream in union sq. #

May 30th, 2009 | Tags: twitter | Category: General | Leave a comment