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Sunday
Church was rough yesterday. It was at least not very cold, thanks to pregnancy, but sitting for that long in church clothes is no good. I am nuts for ice and ice water and basically anything icy that I can drink, so I had to get up halfway through Sunday School to find some. (iron levels are fine ( Read more... ) -
on public opinions
Facebook (etc) is an interesting medium. Whenever something very public or big happens (like today's Supreme Court decisions), I often want to talk about it, but I almost never feel comfortable participating in a social media discussion. It's difficult to discuss anything nuanced in that kind of public space (and I believe there are important ( Read more... ) -
high intensity interval training (HIIT)
I wanted to do a post about things I've learned at the Fuse (the gym I've been going to). I am just about done there, partly because we're moving and partly because it's fairly expensive. I have love loved it overall. One major drawback has been that I moved so quickly into the high-impact stuff that my knees have been having some problems ... but ( Read more... ) -
for Sam: "Dr. Seuss' Nightmare"
My cousin Sam did a project for work that reminded me of this project, so I told him I'd post it. This is a sonnet written by my 14-member creative writing class in high school. One line was assigned, blind, to each class member, with some simple instructions: your last word should rhyme with "x" and it should be about "x" stage of life (youth, ( Read more... ) -
Friday, June 1 - NYC
We had breakfast at a corner place called Lenny's near Kay's house. I got egg and sausage on a roll. It was pretty good. I saw a Sprite in a really great bottle, but didn't buy it. Maybe I will if I see it again.
We went to the World Trade Center memorial this morning. It was sobering. A very simple, poignant way of displaying things. Just like the ( Read more... ) -
Thursday, May 31 - NYC
Today we got up early-ish to go try to buy rush tickets to "Spiderman: Turn Off the Dark." aka that spiderman musical. We got them :) After that, we got breakfast in Little Italy - a cannoli and a lobster tail (the pastry version!). It ended up costing a lot more than it should have because the shop - which looked like a normal bakery - wouldn't ( Read more... ) -
Wednesday, May 30 - NYC
We got up early and caught a ride into the city with Ahmad this morning. What a commute! He says it can usually be a 2.5 hour drive, but because of traffic, this time it was three hours. Insane. Ahmad was a very assertive driver - he just created holes where they didn't exist. It was impressive. If I were the driver, it would have taken us four ( Read more... ) -
Tuesday, May 29, 2012 - DC and Philadelphia
Tuesday, we left DC. BUT FIRST!
We drove into the city for breakfast on Tuesday morning. On the way in we saw: the Watergate hotel! hahaha. We considered going over there (we even looked into staying there one night because of my obsession with all things Nixon), but it is mostly apartments these days. So we decided it wasn't worth going by except ( Read more... ) -
the rest of Sunday, Memorial Day in DC
Dinner with Stefan was way fun. We hung out with him and my aunt Kelly and their daughter Hannah, mostly. Their son Jacob is 13 and was not really into us :) That was okay. Kelly is a firecracker and the dog reminded me of a bigger Louie. They made us hamburgers, hot dogs, and mac and cheese. mmmmmmmmm.
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trip
Not much to report so far, but I figured I should start off. We flew to DC yesterday. It was nonstop, which was awesome, but it was five hours (less awesome). But they played a movie! and it was the whale movie with Jim from the Office and Drew Barrymore. I used to like her but now I can't quite remember what I liked about her. Anyway, the movie ( Read more... )
