I finished reading The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls around 1:30 a.m. last night. it was a well-written and interesting book. took me two days to finish. Kati's going to attend the book club meeting with me on the 24th. I have been a member since last March, but this will be my first meeting. looking forward to it. today is my fifth day of ( Read more... )

tomorrow is Belinda's 22nd birthday. looking at the Ekoji Buddhist Sangha on Grove for meditation night. they've also got a movie night which sounds interesting. it'd be nice to harness some good vibes. really, things are going well. but there's always room for more relaxation. got set up with the acupuncturist, reading some good books, going to ( Read more... )

tonight is the 50th anniversary of the symphony at the Modlin Center. going to Cafe Mosaic before the performance for dinner. had the second session of Internal Controls yesterday, and a brutal meeting with Dr. Brownell afterwards. I've got to make time to focus on these revisions, they will likely take me longer than I think. after the meeting was ( Read more... )

went to see Tales of Hoffman the other day with Bucci, David & Pamela. was a pretty funny opera, but as always, I prefer the symphony above all else. yesterday Morgan and I FINALLY made it to see Across the Universe (after spending 3+ hours reading magazines at Barnes & Noble because I made us very late to the 7ish movie so we waited until the ( Read more... )

supposed to have my fundraising report ready to present to the Board tomorrow morning. I'll be ready, but FIRST Morgan and I have to make a short trip to Weems to celebrate the marriage of Drew's brother. it's a good thing I have a laptop and know a LOT about the subject I'm presenting on tomorrow, or procrastination might actually bite me in the ( Read more... )

attended Celia Broadus's Internal Controls course yesterday and it reignited my interest in going into accounting/internal controls. I looked through a CPA study guide yesterday, and it looks pretty rigorous, but I'm not going to let that scare me away from trying. I am planning to enter J. Sargeant Reynolds in summer 2008 to catch up on some ( Read more... )

class at 4 p.m. drinks later. what a life.

yesterday I rode down to Urbanna to pick up some things from mom and Bob. now Morgan and I have so much arranging to do that I don't even know where to begin. but, it's good, because if people come over, they may actually have a place to sit down now! tried to make it to the folk festival this weekend. we were technically successful, although we ( Read more... )

I was watching CNN news this morning while eating my oatmeal and they talked for a second about blog action day (which you can read about here: blogactionday.org/) and then the guy was like, "but the environment is not the only issue in the world" and clicked over to an "incident report" webpage that monitors terrorist attacks. oh my god! all I ( Read more... )

Morgan and I have been making some progress with our "green" goals. one of the first projects we set out to complete when we moved in was to get some insulation behind the walls. now that that's done, we're on to other things: changing the old standard light bulbs to compact fluorescents, installing pipe insulation on the water heater to save ( Read more... )