I woke up this morning, stumbled around and drank water, ate half a bagel, and then my friend called and she was downstairs waiting for me. I hopped in the car, and we were off. Where? To a 7 mile road race along the Charles River. It wasn't a huge affair, but it wasn't small either. I'd guess about 500 people ran. Half were running a 5K and half a ( Read more... )

This is so damn funny. I don't know if there's anything that might describe me *less* (except for the "Whatever, Whenever, Whoever") which I guess is kind of the point...

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So I got my pretty pretty dress back from the cleaner's yesterday. The one I'm wearing to my friend's black tie wedding in Manhattan tomorrow. Then last night I dragged Kevin to the mall with me (none of my female friends were available, and I knew I'd need advice) to accessorize. I've worn this dress once before, three years ago, for a graduation ( Read more... )

I've been (stupidly) looking at pictures of Dunedin here this morning, and missing it all terribly. I want to know what winter is like on the South Island. I want to see fall change to winter change to spring, and then glorious summer with blue skies and sun. The greenness of New Zealand in spring is electric. Almost impossible to believe. It ( Read more... )

My friends all have lists of the top 5 things that they hate. It can be anything in the world, from something specific (a certain movie/song/book) to something really broad (my best girlfriend hates fruit for instance, which just cracks me up, but that's a whole other story). For a while they've been bugging me for my list. I have trouble coming up ( Read more... )

I just had such a great weekend, I have to share.

Ingredients:

12 energetic but laidback, intelligent but goofy, sweet but bantering friends
1 spacious but not pretentious, cozy beach-house
2 nights and 2 days not thinking about work or any of life's stresses
1 Saturday of sunshine perfect for the beach
uncountably many hamburgers, hot dogs, and ( Read more... )

Things at work are just a mess right now. Not my or any of my immediate co-workers' faults, but it's stuff we'll have to deal with and probably bear the burden of the consequences of. Ugh.

All of that makes me just want to be back at my favorite spot in New Zealand.


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Last weekend was fun. Went out on Friday and got drunker than drunk. I had a vanilla Stoli and Sprite, then 2 vodka gimlets, and then 2 beers. Oh, and a shot of tequila. It was one of our best friend's 25th birthday, so we had to celebrate in style. And that we did. When all was said and done, the bar tab (before tip) was $475. Granted, there were ( Read more... )

My mind is like a spinning top. If not for friction, it would never ever stop. And this week there isn't much friction and there's a whole lot of grease keeping it going ( Read more... )

Good afternoon! Well, I had a really great weekend. It started out a bit questionable because we had to cancel our camping plans. We were going to be spending 2 nights camping up in Acadia National Park in Maine (Sat & Sun nights) after spending a night in a cushy hotel in Freeport, Maine (home of outlets outlets outlets and a huge 24-hour LL Bean ( Read more... )