Today, I was driving behind a van in Alexandria with a bumper sticker that read:

"Raise clams. Not subdivisions."

That is all.

eHarmony try #2 went better. It wasn't a knock out of the park, but I would go on a second date ( Read more... )

I'm having one of those days where I'll catch an occasional glimpse of myself in a mirror or reflection and not recognize myself. Something looks different. My face looks longer, maybe. I dunno.

Another double on another beautiful Saturday.

Rock on.

I'm such an LJ slacker these days. I don't know what happened ( Read more... )

I woke up today feeling OK. Then, at about 9:45, I got hit with a headache and nausea. Didn't really give me enough time to get out of work, though, so I headed in. They have a medicine cabinet, so I promptly took some Pepto Bismol tablets, which I just as promptly threw up. Hoping that I had then cleared it out of my system, I decided to recover ( Read more... )

It was a slow weekend. I worked Friday night, a double on Saturday (that's right, the day it was 70 and sunny in January), and tonight. With my time off this morning, I went by myself to have brunch at Vermillion (another restuarant owned by the same folks that own my cafe). That was nice. Now the only Neighborhood Restaurant Group restaurante I ( Read more... )

I did it. I bit the bullet and did it ( Read more... )

So the last few days of '06 were spent as follows ( Read more... )

The big exciting news: I'm officially presenting my research paper on rural education in China at a national conference in February!!! To be precise, it's the Comparative and International Education Society's 51st Annual Conference. In Baltimore. From Feb 25-Mar 1. I have to buy a new suit ( Read more... )

Hope everyone had a fantastic Christmas (or Chaunukah...Chanukkah...for the life of me, I will never be able to spell that word ( Read more... )