monday: cooked AMAZING dinner with sharri and jenna.  sweet potatoe gnocchi with ground almond/coconut/nutmeg/black pepper/ginger sauce, and these killer mussels.  good wine too ( Read more... )

well, it was quite the weekend (as well as last week for that matter).  i have a bit of time left at work, and we are STILL out of SAPE so we can't do anything, it sucks.  anyway ( Read more... )

fifty minutes until i leave work.  i'm sipping on irish breakfast tea.  i loaded it with milk and sugar, and being such a strong tea, it tastes divine.  little drops of rare jewels on my tongue.  and i'm listening to benjy ferree, even though i'm going to see him at fort reno in two hours.  i've held off listening to him but i can't hold out any ( Read more... )

the time has come.

yes, the final, highly (might i say giddily) anticipated final chapter of harry potter.  i have the book before me, untouched.  I relish this moment, so ripe; a most succulent of moments.  Since it was released saturday at the first stroke, many have already gorged themselves.  I know much awaits me, yet I am in almost tears to ( Read more... )

i guess this is one of those rare lj entries.  im so busy all the time, i always forget about this.  but now ive got 1 1/2 hours until i can go home, and i literally have nothing further to do.  you see, the air conditioning has broken in the lab and its like a freakin oven.  not only does this make procedures highly uncomfortable (the actual desk ( Read more... )

first of all, brian comes back to dc today.  moves here, really.  i will see him in just over an hour and i cant fucking wait.  i have 20 min of work left but theres no way i can focus at this point.  so im going to ramble for a bit here until i can mosey over to the hand scanner to clock out (thats right bitches ( Read more... )

this is a rainy blonde redhead day

it's 11:30pm, wed night.  im hanging out at Tryst (in adams morgan) with Jenna.  unofrtunately i have a shitty headache, so i had to stop reading and writing, and as it is I can barely type.  but anyway.  this place is sweet.  we had delicious chais and a jazz band is playing and the entire front is open to the street and the place is packed.  and ( Read more... )

its amazing how busy, how involved ive been.  its awesome.  but no time to dwell on that, lets go straight to the real stuff...

today was GW graduation.  cant believe its been a year. brian graduated today. he looked so handsome in his robes and cords of distinction : )  rawr!  im very happy for him and also very proud.  he's accomplished a lot, and ( Read more... )

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