My cell contract is expiring while I'm in Bermuda so until I leave for France (August 23), call me at home: 215-242-3228 ( Read more... )

My sister is in Germany for dragonboat world championships and my mom painted her room (as per her request) and we've both been working on it ( Read more... )

We went on a 16-mile bike ride today, in New Jersey. It was along the Delaware River up by New Hope so it was really nice. And the weather made it a great day for riding. My feet smell awesome now. I think it's time for a shower ( Read more... )

Yay! I got my French family and I'm excited about meeting them. There are 2 kids who live there almost the whole time, they're the mom's kids. The boy, Maxens, is 9 and the girl, Annie-Philippine, is 8. The dad's kids come every other weekend - he has a 10-year-old son, Guillaume, and a 7-year-old daughter, Anne-Charlotte. They have a cairn ( Read more... )

You know that weird muscle twitching you get sometimes? I've had it under my eye and in my arm before (more often the eye) ... it just happened in my butt. That was weird. Perhaps a result of remaining seated for most of the day, first for the car ride back from DC - during which I read most of HP Order of the Phoenix - and then when I got home ( Read more... )

Summer life has been treating me well... internship is good, babysitting is plentiful (and very profitable) and the weather is finally warm. We have a French girl staying with us and I managed a reasonably long conversation in French without a dictionary, making me somewhat less nervous about having to conduct life in French for a year. (Although ( Read more... )

Finally introduced a group of people to Bohnanza! That was fun. And means that now I will make it happen again. Then a movie (Bright Young Things) about people in the 30's in England getting coked up and crazy which was also fun. The movie, that is ( Read more... )

Tonight some friends of ours came over for dinner with their kids. They have a 3 and a half year old boy and a new baby girl who I hadn't seen before. She was adorable and I held her for a while. They said they'd call me for babysitting and I hope they do - their older kid is also really nice and seems like he'd be pretty easy ( Read more... )

Partly because I like to complain but mostly because I liked Vanessa's use of the word asshat and want to use it myself ( Read more... )

Summer vacation = good ( Read more... )