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I’ve always loved The Roches but I don’t listen to them much anymore. My significant other doesn’t find any harmony in their harmony (try Hammond Song). So I’m restricted to playing their music only when I’m in the house – alone.
Now, it’s not that that isn’t very often, but, to be fair, their music can be distracting – it’s not background noise to me, like some classical music or jazz. I prefer to blast their songs, as inspiration, while I’m cleaning, especially the grimy, tedious stuff, you know – because the music is distracting.
The problem is, I actually don’t do that kind of cleaning very often anymore (truth: I never have – I managed to marry a man who not only is good with tools but also loves to make things shine) and I don’t include the hours on end that I stand in the kitchen or laundry room doing the daily deeds.
No, I’m thinking back to the days when my college roomies and I would blast Soft Cell or Big Country through our ragged townhouse apartment the morning after a party while we mopped, swept and scrubbed away the dreck – including the occasional soon to be ex-boyfriend – from the night before. That’s how I like to hear my Roches.
But since I got the all clear yesterday from the radiologist friend, the Roches’ Big Nuthin’ has been in my head. The kids are home for the most part and I won’t really have until possibly Saturday morning, Sunday afternoon or next Friday completely to myself. But when I do, I’ll be playing this.
Maybe even from that iPod that’s still in its box that I got with my MacBook, which I am using, and conquering.
Anyway, as for the tests? Thank God, it was a big nuthin’. Just needs another MRI in six months to make sure how big a nuthin’ it is.
By Jill Miller Zimon at 11:30 pm August 9th, 2006 in Politics | 5 Comments
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I’ve always loved The Roches but I don’t listen to them much anymore. My significant other doesn’t find any harmony in their harmony (try Hammond Song). So I’m restricted to playing their music only when I’m in the house – alone.
Now, it’s not that that isn’t very often, but, to be fair, their music can be distracting – it’s not background noise to me, like some classical music or jazz. I prefer to blast their songs, as inspiration, while I’m cleaning, especially the grimy, tedious stuff, you know – because the music is distracting.
The problem is, I actually don’t do that kind of cleaning very often anymore (truth: I never have – I managed to marry a man who not only is good with tools but also loves to make things shine) and I don’t include the hours on end that I stand in the kitchen or laundry room doing the daily deeds.
No, I’m thinking back to the days when my college roomies and I would blast Soft Cell or Big Country through our ragged townhouse apartment the morning after a party while we mopped, swept and scrubbed away the dreck – including the occasional soon to be ex-boyfriend – from the night before. That’s how I like to hear my Roches.
But since I got the all clear yesterday from the radiologist friend, the Roches’ Big Nuthin’ has been in my head. The kids are home for the most part and I won’t really have until possibly Saturday morning, Sunday afternoon or next Friday completely to myself. But when I do, I’ll be playing this.
Maybe even from that iPod that’s still in its box that I got with my MacBook, which I am using, and conquering.
Anyway, as for the tests? Thank God, it was a big nuthin’. Just needs another MRI in six months to make sure how big a nuthin’ it is.
By Jill Miller Zimon at 7:30 pm August 9th, 2006 in Politics | 4 Comments
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I guess I just never knew how big nuthin’ could be
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I’ve always loved The Roches but I don’t listen to them much anymore. My significant other doesn’t find any harmony in their harmony (try Hammond Song). So I’m restricted to playing their music only when I’m in the house – alone.
Now, it’s not that that isn’t very often, but, to be fair, their music can be distracting – it’s not background noise to me, like some classical music or jazz. I prefer to blast their songs, as inspiration, while I’m cleaning, especially the grimy, tedious stuff, you know – because the music is distracting.
The problem is, I actually don’t do that kind of cleaning very often anymore (truth: I never have – I managed to marry a man who not only is good with tools but also loves to make things shine) and I don’t include the hours on end that I stand in the kitchen or laundry room doing the daily deeds.
No, I’m thinking back to the days when my college roomies and I would blast Soft Cell or Big Country through our ragged townhouse apartment the morning after a party while we mopped, swept and scrubbed away the dreck – including the occasional soon to be ex-boyfriend – from the night before. That’s how I like to hear my Roches.
But since I got the all clear yesterday from the radiologist friend, the Roches’ Big Nuthin’ has been in my head. The kids are home for the most part and I won’t really have until possibly Saturday morning, Sunday afternoon or next Friday completely to myself. But when I do, I’ll be playing this.
Maybe even from that iPod that’s still in its box that I got with my MacBook, which I am using, and conquering.
Anyway, as for the tests? Thank God, it was a big nuthin’. Just needs another MRI in six months to make sure how big a nuthin’ it is.
By Jill Miller Zimon at 4:30 pm August 9th, 2006 in Politics | Comments Off
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In the trenches with Capri Cafaro
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From the The Morning Journal comes this update on the life and times of Capri Cafaro:
Cafaro recently volunteered to conduct a ”needs assessment” for the Lorain County Office on Aging, a project that is expected to take until the end of the year.
She is also a member of the Lorain County Community College Foundation board.
”I’m so active, it doesn’t feel that different (from campaigning). The need to compulsively wear a suit is not missed, though” she said, dressed in a casual business outfit after leaving the Office on Aging.
While she’s still keeping her hand in Democratic politics, attending fund-raisers and local events, she said she’s happy to focus on nonpartisan, nonprofit work and make Lorain County her home.
…
Cafaro is coordinating an outreach program with the Office on Aging and contacting seniors throughout the county in the hopes of providing better services to them in the future.
The Office on Aging helps run several of the senior living homes in the county and provides other assistance to Lorain County senior citizens.
Cafaro said she approached the office about ways to help, and she and the director, Pat Littleton, agreed it was time to do a reassessment of the office’s work.
The office last did a similar project in 1997, Littleton said.
Cafaro agreed to volunteer to coordinate the project, which includes orchestrating operators to make phone calls, sending out letters to different figures in the community and organizing the data into a final report.
…
The task will involve coordinating anonymous surveys and input from community figures and service providers into a general report about how to improve the office.
To me, her work, as described here, gives her far more credibility than any other item on her otherwise status-heavy resume (Stanford at 15, Georgetown at 2o something, and so on). The work she is now doing will also, should also impact her positively at least as much as knowing that she’s doing it can impact voters positively. In this position – volunteer or not – Cafaro can interact with, get to be known in and get to know the 13th district and NEO in a far more meaningful way than any of the semi-prepared media pieces she produced during the campaign.
Nice going, Capri. And good luck.
Hattip to As Ohio Goes.
By Jill Miller Zimon at 3:52 pm August 9th, 2006 in Politics | Comments Off
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CT hometown goes for Joe – no surprise
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Why not a surprise? Because it’s got a huge (for most places) Jewish population as well as a very Republican-leaning populace. He won by over 200 votes there. (not all the numbers are in yet on the chart.) My parents voted absentee and, although I didn’t ask them, I’m pretty sure they went with Lamont. My father loves underdogs.
Think those totals look tiny? Connecticut is a tiny state, composed of hundreds of tiny towns. And if you’ve not traveled much to the East Coast, CT is probably an enigma for you, though not unlike Ohio. There’s great diversity in CT because of its proximity to NYC but it’s got Yankee roots and shoots that NYC lacks. Remember when Lucy moves out to Westport and how out of it she felt there? Lamont, in Greenwich, lives much closer to NYC but income-wise, the areas are comparable, with many indicators putting Greenwich ahead of Westport and in the top 100 towns in income in the U.S.
But then you’ve got the region (New London) out-of-staters associate with the eminent domain case, Kelo. Blight, unemployment, military, blue collar. Anyone remember when Bridgeport, CT almost had to declare bankruptcy? New Haven has no downtown department stores – much like Cleveland now, except it’s been that way since the late 80s. Yale’s the biggest employer in New Haven, the government and insurance in Hartford. The infrastructure is old and costly and real estate is absurdly expensive.
What will Lieberman and Lamont and the GOP find in the town numbers? The only thing one of them better find is victory, or else we’ll really find out just how big the difference is between Lieberman and an elected Republican Senator from Connecticut (bonus – without looking it up, any of you have a clue as to the last time CT HAD a GOP senator?).
I’ll give you a hint: the man that held the post? A firebrand who later became CT Governor, as an Independent.
Learn to spell enigma – it’s easier to type than Connecticut.
By Jill Miller Zimon at 12:38 pm August 9th, 2006 in Politics | 2 Comments
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In the trenches with Capri Cafaro
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From the The Morning Journal comes this update on the life and times of Capri Cafaro:
Cafaro recently volunteered to conduct a ”needs assessment” for the Lorain County Office on Aging, a project that is expected to take until the end of the year.
She is also a member of the Lorain County Community College Foundation board.
”I’m so active, it doesn’t feel that different (from campaigning). The need to compulsively wear a suit is not missed, though” she said, dressed in a casual business outfit after leaving the Office on Aging.
While she’s still keeping her hand in Democratic politics, attending fund-raisers and local events, she said she’s happy to focus on nonpartisan, nonprofit work and make Lorain County her home.
…
Cafaro is coordinating an outreach program with the Office on Aging and contacting seniors throughout the county in the hopes of providing better services to them in the future.
The Office on Aging helps run several of the senior living homes in the county and provides other assistance to Lorain County senior citizens.
Cafaro said she approached the office about ways to help, and she and the director, Pat Littleton, agreed it was time to do a reassessment of the office’s work.
The office last did a similar project in 1997, Littleton said.
Cafaro agreed to volunteer to coordinate the project, which includes orchestrating operators to make phone calls, sending out letters to different figures in the community and organizing the data into a final report.
…
The task will involve coordinating anonymous surveys and input from community figures and service providers into a general report about how to improve the office.
To me, her work, as described here, gives her far more credibility than any other item on her otherwise status-heavy resume (Stanford at 15, Georgetown at 2o something, and so on). The work she is now doing will also, should also impact her positively at least as much as knowing that she’s doing it can impact voters positively. In this position – volunteer or not – Cafaro can interact with, get to be known in and get to know the 13th district and NEO in a far more meaningful way than any of the semi-prepared media pieces she produced during the campaign.
Nice going, Capri. And good luck.
Hattip to As Ohio Goes.
By Jill Miller Zimon at 11:52 am August 9th, 2006 in Politics | Comments Off
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9
In the trenches with Capri Cafaro
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From the The Morning Journal comes this update on the life and times of Capri Cafaro:
Cafaro recently volunteered to conduct a ”needs assessment” for the Lorain County Office on Aging, a project that is expected to take until the end of the year.
She is also a member of the Lorain County Community College Foundation board.
”I’m so active, it doesn’t feel that different (from campaigning). The need to compulsively wear a suit is not missed, though” she said, dressed in a casual business outfit after leaving the Office on Aging.
While she’s still keeping her hand in Democratic politics, attending fund-raisers and local events, she said she’s happy to focus on nonpartisan, nonprofit work and make Lorain County her home.
…
Cafaro is coordinating an outreach program with the Office on Aging and contacting seniors throughout the county in the hopes of providing better services to them in the future.
The Office on Aging helps run several of the senior living homes in the county and provides other assistance to Lorain County senior citizens.
Cafaro said she approached the office about ways to help, and she and the director, Pat Littleton, agreed it was time to do a reassessment of the office’s work.
The office last did a similar project in 1997, Littleton said.
Cafaro agreed to volunteer to coordinate the project, which includes orchestrating operators to make phone calls, sending out letters to different figures in the community and organizing the data into a final report.
…
The task will involve coordinating anonymous surveys and input from community figures and service providers into a general report about how to improve the office.
To me, her work, as described here, gives her far more credibility than any other item on her otherwise status-heavy resume (Stanford at 15, Georgetown at 2o something, and so on). The work she is now doing will also, should also impact her positively at least as much as knowing that she’s doing it can impact voters positively. In this position – volunteer or not – Cafaro can interact with, get to be known in and get to know the 13th district and NEO in a far more meaningful way than any of the semi-prepared media pieces she produced during the campaign.
Nice going, Capri. And good luck.
Hattip to As Ohio Goes.
By Jill Miller Zimon at 8:52 am August 9th, 2006 in Politics | Comments Off
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CT hometown goes for Joe – no surprise
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Why not a surprise? Because it’s got a huge (for most places) Jewish population as well as a very Republican-leaning populace. He won by over 200 votes there. (not all the numbers are in yet on the chart.) My parents voted absentee and, although I didn’t ask them, I’m pretty sure they went with Lamont. My father loves underdogs.
Think those totals look tiny? Connecticut is a tiny state, composed of hundreds of tiny towns. And if you’ve not traveled much to the East Coast, CT is probably an enigma for you, though not unlike Ohio. There’s great diversity in CT because of its proximity to NYC but it’s got Yankee roots and shoots that NYC lacks. Remember when Lucy moves out to Westport and how out of it she felt there? Lamont, in Greenwich, lives much closer to NYC but income-wise, the areas are comparable, with many indicators putting Greenwich ahead of Westport and in the top 100 towns in income in the U.S.
But then you’ve got the region (New London) out-of-staters associate with the eminent domain case, Kelo. Blight, unemployment, military, blue collar. Anyone remember when Bridgeport, CT almost had to declare bankruptcy? New Haven has no downtown department stores – much like Cleveland now, except it’s been that way since the late 80s. Yale’s the biggest employer in New Haven, the government and insurance in Hartford. The infrastructure is old and costly and real estate is absurdly expensive.
What will Lieberman and Lamont and the GOP find in the town numbers? The only thing one of them better find is victory, or else we’ll really find out just how big the difference is between Lieberman and an elected Republican Senator from Connecticut (bonus – without looking it up, any of you have a clue as to the last time CT HAD a GOP senator?).
I’ll give you a hint: the man that held the post? A firebrand who later became CT Governor, as an Independent.
Learn to spell enigma – it’s easier to type than Connecticut.
By Jill Miller Zimon at 8:38 am August 9th, 2006 in Politics | 2 Comments
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CT hometown goes for Joe – no surprise
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Why not a surprise? Because it’s got a huge (for most places) Jewish population as well as a very Republican-leaning populace. He won by over 200 votes there. (not all the numbers are in yet on the chart.) My parents voted absentee and, although I didn’t ask them, I’m pretty sure they went with Lamont. My father loves underdogs.
Think those totals look tiny? Connecticut is a tiny state, composed of hundreds of tiny towns. And if you’ve not traveled much to the East Coast, CT is probably an enigma for you, though not unlike Ohio. There’s great diversity in CT because of its proximity to NYC but it’s got Yankee roots and shoots that NYC lacks. Remember when Lucy moves out to Westport and how out of it she felt there? Lamont, in Greenwich, lives much closer to NYC but income-wise, the areas are comparable, with many indicators putting Greenwich ahead of Westport and in the top 100 towns in income in the U.S.
But then you’ve got the region (New London) out-of-staters associate with the eminent domain case, Kelo. Blight, unemployment, military, blue collar. Anyone remember when Bridgeport, CT almost had to declare bankruptcy? New Haven has no downtown department stores – much like Cleveland now, except it’s been that way since the late 80s. Yale’s the biggest employer in New Haven, the government and insurance in Hartford. The infrastructure is old and costly and real estate is absurdly expensive.
What will Lieberman and Lamont and the GOP find in the town numbers? The only thing one of them better find is victory, or else we’ll really find out just how big the difference is between Lieberman and an elected Republican Senator from Connecticut (bonus – without looking it up, any of you have a clue as to the last time CT HAD a GOP senator?).
I’ll give you a hint: the man that held the post? A firebrand who later became CT Governor, as an Independent.
Learn to spell enigma – it’s easier to type than Connecticut.
By Jill Miller Zimon at 5:38 am August 9th, 2006 in Politics | Comments Off
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