you'll look sweet upon the seat

I used to love reading the Boston Globe Magazine every Sunday when I lived at home and I still like to read it when I go home. On the cover this week was Boston's hopes to start a large-scale bike-share program like the one in Paris, called Velib ("velo" = cycle, "lib" = free, duh). In Paris it costs one euro to borrow a bicycle for the whole day.

If this kind of thing existed in New York (well, Brooklyn), I would be so on it. I don't have room to store a bike in my apartment, but if there was a little bike station down the street it would be superconvenient for a trip to the grocery store or to Park Slope.

But while it's nice to imagine ourselves all earth-saving and Parisian-like, the one thing I find wrong with the photo above is that these people look 95% chicer because they're not wearing helmets.

Photo courtesy boston.com

happy easter, peeps.

My family is recently obsessed with recipes from the Food Network, it seems, which is A-okay with me because I get to eat delicious things like this:

Rachael Ray's Buffalo Popcorn Chicken Bites

(made by my sister)

Nigella Lawson's Raspberry and Oatmeal Swirl

(made by my mom)

click my heels

I haven't been to visit home in about 4,000 ages. On the to-do list:

See family and Lili (even though she hates me)

Get a manicure at Bubbles and Polish in Westford, whose manicures are infinitely better than both the nail salons I've tried in New York

See Becky and her baby, Rachel

Shop at Kohl's and Joann Fabric

Drive a car and try not to hit anything/anyone

See the puppies Auntie Pam's dog just had

Revel in the use of a dish washer and washing machine

Drop more unsubtle hints to my mom about how there had better be black jelly beans in my Easter basket after their egregious omission last year

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Becoming an expert on the finest state schools Nebraska and Montana have to offer.

step in time

Going to see one my favorite ladies tonight.