The Closet Extrovert

A little grey mouse has been hanging around the apartment recently, getting bolder every day. Last night it wandered all the way into my bedroom (which happens to be the farthest area in the apartment from the kitchen, where I am pretty sure it lives). I even saw it in my bed, TWICE — along […]

We’re talking trash over at Down With Absolutes. To be more specific, we’ve been discussing RecycleBank, the pilot “recycling for incentives” program going on in Wilmington that I posted about recently. According to Mike’s post, some people are upset about having of their weekly trash collection days replaced with recycling collection, but dropping regular trash […]

We received a letter from the Mayor’s Office at the end of June informing us that The Mayor, the Clean Wilmington Committee and the Wilmington City Council would be implementing its new residential curbside recycling program in our neighborhood on July 17th. The program is called RecycleBank and it looks promising. The limited-area pilot phase […]

While I was in the middle of cooking dinner (the always fabulous Bangin’ Bharta), my roommate came home with a surprise. One of his clients is moving to Florida and unloading a lot of things he doesn’t want to move and can’t (or is not inclined to) sell. Among other things, we appear to have […]

This is the recipe for an East Indian vegetarian dish called Baingan (Eggplant) Bharta that I’ve made a few times and absolutely love. Despite the fact that I always tend to make spicy dishes too hot for everyone else’s palate, it is so good that my friends and I now intentionally refer to it as […]

Phew… I’m back home after spending the day with some friends to escape breathing in poison from the pest control session scheduled by my landlord, thanks to the downstairs neighbor’s flea infestation. All in all, pretty inconvenient, and bad timing with a work deadline looming over me.
I had to prepare by vacuuming the entire […]

My roomie just walked in wearing a t-shirt that says “Gravity Happens”. I started laughing and only then did he make the connection with yesterday’s collapsed ceiling incident. He swears he wasn’t even paying attention when he put it on. The shirt would be funnier if it was the “baby doll” style and didn’t have […]