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Conflicted: Am I A Bad Person?
So I am feeling mighty conflicted about my emotions when it comes to this whole totaling-of-Jason's-car thing.
I suppose that I should be appalled and angry that this happened to us. Right?
But the problem is that really... I'm not.
That kid running the red light, putting his daddy's Lincoln Navigator directly into the path of my accelerating husband' ( Read more... ) -
Technology Diet
So after reading this article in the New York Times, I have decided that I must prevent myself from becoming like that guy. The guy who knows that his cell phone will not have service for 222 seconds during his morning commute while the train goes under a tunnel.
I fear that I am already an addict. Ok, I don't fear. I KNOW.
The number one culprit ( Read more... ) -
Paris, Day 4
Sunday, May 9
We managed to set both alarm clocks correctly for this morning, and were out the door right on time. As usual, we walked past Notre Dame to get to the RER station at St. Michel (Trip Theme No. 3: Notre Dame) for the one stop ride to the Musee D'Orsay. We had played with the idea of walking there (it was only one stop so I had ( Read more... ) -
Post trip let down
- Now that I'm back from Paris and feeling like my life is completely and utterly boring, I feel the need to chock it full of things.
- I want to subscribe to the Virginia Opera's season next year. It's got the warhorses - Cosi Fan Tutti, Rigoletto, Madame Butterfly. I might get two of them for $64. Now if I can only rope someone into going with me.
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Paris - Day 3
Saturday, May 8
Krystal woke me up with a start by yelling "holy shit, it's 8:45!"
I was alert in seconds but confused... we had set both Krystal's iPhone and my travel clock the night before - why on Earth didn't they go off?? I didn't have time to investigate - I still needed a shower before headed to Notre Dame - so I ran into the bathroom ( Read more... ) -
Paris, Day 2
Friday, May 7
The day I had most been looking forward to had arrived - Versailles! Being a crazy royalist (yes yes it's true), I had read so many books about Louis XIV, his mistresses, Louis XVI, and Marie Antoinette and her children that I felt like I already knew Versailles like the back of my hand.
We managed to get out of bed at the ( Read more... ) -
Paris - Take Off through Day 1
Well, now that I am back in the sad, boring burg of Richmond, it's high time I wrote a very long series of entries about Paris. The best place to start is the beginning so...
Wednesday, May 5 ----> Thursday, May 6
Today was the day we had been waiting for for 18 months... all the countdowns, planning, and obsessing over every detail of our trip ( Read more... ) -
McMuffin Madness
More weird dreams all night long - nightmares this time ( Read more... ) -
Resolution re-hash, for the record
- Participate in and finish the 2010 Ukrop's Monument Avenue 10k (and finish before Jason does); DONE AND DONE
- Give up all superfluous television for Lent (meaning everything except the Early Show & Grey's Anatomy); ok, so i didn't give up superfluous TV, I gave up shopping instead. And I succeeded. So I'm going to consider this done and done.
- Have ( Read more... )
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Nutshell
+ 28 days til Paris. I can't believe it's almost here. My brain is already there and I find it impossible to focus on anything else ( Read more... )