Sara Astruc

Back on the east coast and updating at Perfect Way once again.

My condo in Seattle's lovely Queen Anne neighborhood is for sale. Please take a look! If any of you Intarweb folk refer me a buyer, I will happily pay you $1000.

I'm feeling sort of sorry for Jet Blue lately, given the beating they're taking in the press for keeping hundreds of passengers stranded on the ground during a storm. I love Jet Blue. They treat passengers like people, instead of case numbers or cattle. I am a terrible, stressed out flyer, and more times than I can count they have stepped up and helped me out when they had absolutely no obligation. 

I'll be updating at SaraShops.com for the holidays. Merry. Happy. Cheer.

I feel like I should use this Vox account, just because it's here. Lately I've been posting on LiveJournal, after years of swearing I would never have a LJ account. I haven't written much of late, just because things are going well and I don't want to jinx anything by talking about it.

For a long time, I've been working on a piece about the day the World Trade Center fell. I hate thinking about it, but I do, still, almost every day. I try to avoid talking about it with anyone not from New York. But it's still jamming me up inside, that I have a few more things I want to say about that horrible day before I stop writing altogether.

I'd been writing this piece since I moved to Seattle, since it was all wrapped up in the decision to leave New York. I'd stop and start and stop and start and now it's everywhere, all over again, these fucking movies that keep coming in a deluge, dredging up all that shit all over again.

I know part of me hopes that if I finish this piece, I could put this thing to bed forever. This thing, this thing. This thing that never goes away.

...but I don't want ads on my personal web page, and I don't have enough control over the design. I'm pleased, though, at how well their formatting buttons work in Firefox for the Mac. Shit, nothing web-based ever works for the Mac right out of the box, so that much is kind of awesome.

I'm not Crazy about the Flickr thing, either. I never jumped on the Flickr bandwagon-- I find it slow and hard to navigate. I don't even have an account. I'd love a closer tie-in with iPhoto. I guess I could use Mac's blogging software to do that, but I like the whole community aspect of Vox, the marriage of web page and people.

I'm still kind of old school, in that I like to keep the primary copy of my web site locally, on my own hard drive. So I might have a hard time adjusting to this. I have long considered going back to writing and coding my pages by hand, but then again, there's little I want to say publicly, anyway.

I need to keep messing around with this before I make up my mind. I am impressed, though, and this is just the beta!

Welcome to my Vox Thingie.*

*not an actual technical term.