For a long time, my two favorite domestic beers, Breckenridge Brewery's Avalanche Ale and Leinenkugel's Honey Weiss,  were not available in the Atlanta area.  But a few weeks ago I noticed Avalanche at Total Wine, and today Ben got a call from Sherlock's saying that their distributer finally decided to start carrying Honey Weiss again.  I guess the ( Read more... )

 After spending all of last weekend being mopey and sick and parked in front of the TV (seriously, I left the house all of once in two days, and at one point resorted to watching a dumb made-for-TV movie about Nancy Drew going to college.  That's just sad.), I feel a need to go out and do something this weekend.  Problem is, I don't really feel ( Read more... )

We are hosting a holiday party at our apartment on Saturday, December 8, from 7pm until whenever.  Please come!

(That is, of course, assuming I survive my parents' visit this week.  I would be more confident in my ability to handle it if I weren't already on people overload from spending a lot of time with both sets of my in-laws the past few weeks ( Read more... )

Slate asked a number of contemporary authors about the most important book they haven't read.  And I've decided that this is the month that I will finally read Faust.  Not in German yet, because I just don't have those skills anymore, but I will read it.

Other things I will do this month:
*Drive out of state three weekends in a row (on three separate ( Read more... )

 "October promises a difference and brings it, the changes it says are coming always come.  When the air crispens, it splurges on symbols, dropping beautiful proof at your feet.  It doesn't lie or leave out, saying death will be around eventually but only because life was already here, and here's some color and snappy weather and flocks of birds ( Read more... )

I just finished.

Need shower and maybe sleep.

Our first wedding anniversary was lovely.  We slept in, watched That Thing You Do, went swimming, ate at Provino's, and just now worked up the courage to eat the scary wedding cake that had been in Ben's mom's friend's freezer for the past year.  The cake was not nearly as gross as expected. 

I really suck at updating . . . Life is good.  We had a lovely time on Saturday driving around looking at houses for sale.  We're not going to be in a position to buy for a year or two, but we had fun familiarizing ourselves with different neighborhoods in the area, even if we may not be here when we do decide to buy.  Most of me hopes we end up ( Read more... )

On Friday our order from Amazon.com arrived. One of the three books we got was the bilingual edition of Rilke’s Sonnets to Orpheus translated by Edward Snow (who happens to be an English professor at Rice-his Literature and Art class is where I discovered my love of Magritte and Vermeer). When I opened the book for the first time on Friday, I ( Read more... )

To this day, every time I hear a garage door, I am slightly startled.  I always think "Crap.  Mom's home; I need to look like I'm doing homework."  Never mind that I haven't lived with my mother in seven years, or that none of the garage doors I hear are at all tied to my home anymore, or that I haven't had homework in three years.  It's just my ( Read more... )