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Water is Cheap… For Now
Yesterday, I showed up to a water conference to supplement my knowledge of energy issues, mind you as the only non-engineer for whom the molecule drawings instead look more like adorable Mickey Mouse figurines. Clearly, I am addicted to the high of being somewhere where I don’t belong. I suppose

FREE Day at the Contemporary Jewish Museum
This Sunday, April 11th in honor of Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day, the Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco is FREE all day! I usually like going to museums solo so I don’t feel rushed by my companions, but this seems like an event best spent with friends and loved

Observations and Hypotheticals on Being Sick
I was supposed to be going home to Massachusetts this weekend to celebrate my mother’s birthday. Unfortunately, I went from kind of sick to seriously sick right before leaving and couldn’t go. Apparently that is something my husband says ‘˜ happens every time’. So, now I have been sick on

Twitter Accounts Worth Tweeting About
I don’t normally support Twitter because I really can’t get behind our ever-expanding ADD culture and also because I truly believe that reading really boring half-thoughts about the minutiae of people’s days will give me early onset Alzheimer’s. (Though in truth, there are a few celebrity accounts that I somewhat

Dollar Dogs and More Dogs This Weekend at Golden Gate Fields
Events centered on canines always strike me as ludicrous, though, I’m not particularly fond of man’s ‘œbest’ friend I grant you. Unless, it was Goliath, of course, who seemed like an all right pup. Then again, he could talk and give you advice. Anyway, if you like observing owners frothing

Free Talks & Stuff for Dangerous Minds
You have to keep learning to enrich your life. When all crap hits the fan (and I don’t know whether I have a lot of it or just a tiny fan, but it seems to hit quite often), you only have one thing to rely on, and that’s a dynamic

It’s Farmers Market Season in San Francisco!
Spring has sort of sprung, which means new Farmers Markets are popping up left and right! FarMars are every broke-ass’s wet dream; with the ample trading and bartering that goes on, you can easily feed yourself for a week on $20. And if the stands don’t take your mom’s credit