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Jamie

building it bigger

About Me

i'm a chef/manager and my time off work becomes more invaluable every day. I like to write, read, drink coffee & wine and meet people. I refuse to stop at any and all costs.

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My Interests

building a recording studio in my new house, finishing my first work of non-fiction, seeing live music, drinking and singing with my friends

I'd like to meet:

thomas keller, tres anastasio, liam gallagher, keller williams, nick hexum, jay mcinerney, john irving

Music:

311, Oasis, Alanis Morrissette, Phish, Sublime, Coldplay, Natasha Bedingfield, The Grateful Dead

Movies:

fight club, sideways, office space, the wedding singer, the jackal, national lampoon's vacation, rainman

Television:

CSI:Miami, ER, Rome, SNL, Sons&Daughters

Heroes:

my mom and Nick Hexum

My Blog

holy preterm labor

I guess the time has come, not quite thity-four weeks, but our baby wants to see what thia world has to offer. luba has officially been "in labor" for four hours now and I think we're in for a long ri...
Posted by Jamie on Fri, 22 Feb 2008 11:29:00 PST

can't be sure

¶Friday started as slow and somber as possible, full of empty promises and unreceptive to sobriety. This was every morning, but sometimes it started much earlier.  This seeemed differnt somehow, ...
Posted by Jamie on Fri, 27 Jul 2007 01:28:00 PST

a sort of sorry

   There are so many parts of me that miss writing, but the battle to find the time without the extra step of censoring myself has become prohibitive.  I am also drinking a whole lot le...
Posted by Jamie on Mon, 09 Jul 2007 11:27:00 PST

the end of forever

   At worst, I am ecstatic and I've exhausted the point of looking for reasons that aren't there.  My proverbial ninth cloud is still floating of its own accord and I refuse to get off....
Posted by Jamie on Thu, 19 Apr 2007 08:12:00 PST

moist, twin valleys

   I should probably just begin with the realities and start from there, but I'm not so certain that I am even aware of where they left off and this fantasy began.  I have been in a per...
Posted by Jamie on Thu, 05 Apr 2007 08:36:00 PST

best feeling

    It feels great to be back, but I am still trying to wrap my brain around the whole adventure and why I "mismanaged" to return to Delaware.  Briefly, Ben on teh coast in Newport...
Posted by Jamie on Thu, 29 Mar 2007 11:05:00 PST

this space intentionally left blank

   My own private indifference has caught up with me and I am mildy euphoric in spite of myself.  The kids are still rumbling upstairs and I am left with the shallow shell of my former ...
Posted by Jamie on Tue, 06 Mar 2007 11:03:00 PST

that dirty deliberation

    It's hard to say where I am just now.  There some sort of precipice that I've encountered these last years and I cna't seem to get over, under or around it.  It is like a ...
Posted by Jamie on Sun, 25 Feb 2007 11:51:00 PST

fractured indifference

¶¶¶¶     Tom is smoking some new strain of sweet leaf, because myspace is acting up and I don't like it.  It just ate my blog and I'm lucky enough to have the beginning in a t...
Posted by Jamie on Wed, 21 Feb 2007 10:53:00 PST

recommencement

I'm in some unenviable place between joy and exasperation and all I know to do is drink and write.  I could tuck myself in and fall asleep to Conan or sort out some of my animosity and jeopardize...
Posted by Jamie on Tue, 20 Feb 2007 10:01:00 PST