9 out of 10 Pirates like Ice-Bat
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There's me, lookin' fly in my big ole shades with Ice-Bat. We like pirates.
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Thursday, June 21, 2007
It's been a busy couple of weeks for me! I got back on Sunday from a trip to Boston for a work conference. The conference was really fun, albeit small. So there wasn't really the opportunity to sneak out and explore Boston. Luckily, I've been to Boston a few times before and didn't feel like I missed out on a whole lot. Plus it was pretty cold on Wednesday and Thursday, which didn't make me want to go exploring! I did end up going to this fabulous Italian restaraunt near Fenway. I had a delicious dish with shrimp, scallops, and mussels in a tomato and garlic sauce with angel hair pasta. The seafood was spectacular!
I also got to spend some time with Jenny H. She met me on Wednesday night for dinner at a fancy French bistro -- very, very tasty as well! We saw Kiki and Herb: Alive on Broadway -- a very funny cabaret-esque show. It was even nominated for the Special Event Tony. Unfortunately, it lost out to a ventriloquist. After the conference, Jenny and Jon picked me up and we went to Salem, MA for the day. It was quite entertaining seeing all the witches and seafarers stuff. I've got photographic proof up on my Flickr page. Then we went back to their new apartment and Jon cooked up a super delicious lasagna. I also got introduced to the joys of I <3 has said, Katamari is totally addicting. It took me a little while to be able to pick things up (and I'm not quite optimizing my abilities either), but it was quite entertaining. Can't go wrong with Japanese video games!
We also saw a really, really good movie in Boston called Once. It's an Irish movie musical about a busker who meets a girl and ends up recording music. It's mostly about the music -- super beautiful songer-songwriter stuff -- but has a tiny plot too. It's really hard to describe, but it was a really innovative and entertaining movie. I liked it so much that I bought the soundtrack on Monday. I'm planning to take Trip to see it sometime in the future.
As for upcoming plans, tonight I'm planning to make some cherry jam. I successfully made freezer strawberry jam a few weeks ago (super tasty). This time I am planning to make regular jam that involves cooking! Must be more jam-like and not so runny!
I had Monday as my day off, so I get to work both Friday and Saturday (huzzah!). But it's okay. Sunday is the big 5K which I hope I am ready for. I'm planning a long run tonight to make sure that I can do 3.1 miles without making a total fool of myself. Trust me, I feel like it could happen! But I'll be running with my friend Angela, so at least I'll have company. I just hope I don't slow her down too much. And maybe I can get Trip to take pictures of us! That would be fun.
I also got to spend some time with Jenny H. She met me on Wednesday night for dinner at a fancy French bistro -- very, very tasty as well! We saw Kiki and Herb: Alive on Broadway -- a very funny cabaret-esque show. It was even nominated for the Special Event Tony. Unfortunately, it lost out to a ventriloquist. After the conference, Jenny and Jon picked me up and we went to Salem, MA for the day. It was quite entertaining seeing all the witches and seafarers stuff. I've got photographic proof up on my Flickr page. Then we went back to their new apartment and Jon cooked up a super delicious lasagna. I also got introduced to the joys of I <3 has said, Katamari is totally addicting. It took me a little while to be able to pick things up (and I'm not quite optimizing my abilities either), but it was quite entertaining. Can't go wrong with Japanese video games!
We also saw a really, really good movie in Boston called Once. It's an Irish movie musical about a busker who meets a girl and ends up recording music. It's mostly about the music -- super beautiful songer-songwriter stuff -- but has a tiny plot too. It's really hard to describe, but it was a really innovative and entertaining movie. I liked it so much that I bought the soundtrack on Monday. I'm planning to take Trip to see it sometime in the future.
As for upcoming plans, tonight I'm planning to make some cherry jam. I successfully made freezer strawberry jam a few weeks ago (super tasty). This time I am planning to make regular jam that involves cooking! Must be more jam-like and not so runny!
I had Monday as my day off, so I get to work both Friday and Saturday (huzzah!). But it's okay. Sunday is the big 5K which I hope I am ready for. I'm planning a long run tonight to make sure that I can do 3.1 miles without making a total fool of myself. Trust me, I feel like it could happen! But I'll be running with my friend Angela, so at least I'll have company. I just hope I don't slow her down too much. And maybe I can get Trip to take pictures of us! That would be fun.
Thursday, May 10, 2007
I started reading the funniest book at lunch today -- The Pirates! An Adventure with Scientists. (It's in a double book with The Pirates! An Adventure with Ahab on the flip-side. Can't wait for that one.) I'm a sucker for a pirate (arrrrr!) and it's proving to be a very silly adventure. I'm only a couple chapters in, but so far I have found out the best reason to be a pirate (the shanties) and that "I like ham" is an excellent pirate motto. The pirates are looking for a ship called the Beagle -- I wonder if they're going to run into a certain evolutionist? I imagine this book will be a super-fun read -- very entertaining! It also seems like something I would have either read when I was a middle- or high-schooler or something I would've attempted to write at that age.
I also read a very interesting book on Sunday called Love is a Mixtape: Life and Loss, One Song at a Time by Rob Sheffield. It was a memoir by Sheffield set primarily in the early and mid-1990s when he met and married his wife Renee. But she dies five years after they marry -- which is where the loss comes in. The book was very moving. Although I knew Renee would die, I cried a lot after reading about her death and how Rob coped with the aftermath.
It was also very interesting to read about a young marriage -- Sheffield and Renee married at 25 -- and to hear about all their struggles with being married. I feel like so often you don't hear about what it is like to be married -- it's all about dating or having kids or planning the perfect marriage. But what about those years before you start having kids? Or right after the wedding? What's it like? As someone who is getting married soon and hadn't thought about some of these things -- especially his example of realizing that his wife would be the person that he would fail in front of -- it's both scary and reassuring. Scary because I hadn't realized that I would be in for such fears, but also reassuring to know that others have gone through them -- and put a name to these fears -- and survived.
Well, enough heavy stuff.
I am starting my marathon of "work every Saturday in May" this weekend. Should be fun! So tomorrow I am off and will be relaxing and not doing a whole lot. The big goal is to run -- I haven't gone since Monday, and I need to get in another one.
Sunday will be a busy day -- we're going to a friend's church, I have to work in the afternoon (program on getting a federal job -- bring the whole family!), and then Trip and I will be attending Doubt (the play) in the evening. Jam-packed!
Friday should be a pretty relaxing day though.
I also read a very interesting book on Sunday called Love is a Mixtape: Life and Loss, One Song at a Time by Rob Sheffield. It was a memoir by Sheffield set primarily in the early and mid-1990s when he met and married his wife Renee. But she dies five years after they marry -- which is where the loss comes in. The book was very moving. Although I knew Renee would die, I cried a lot after reading about her death and how Rob coped with the aftermath.
It was also very interesting to read about a young marriage -- Sheffield and Renee married at 25 -- and to hear about all their struggles with being married. I feel like so often you don't hear about what it is like to be married -- it's all about dating or having kids or planning the perfect marriage. But what about those years before you start having kids? Or right after the wedding? What's it like? As someone who is getting married soon and hadn't thought about some of these things -- especially his example of realizing that his wife would be the person that he would fail in front of -- it's both scary and reassuring. Scary because I hadn't realized that I would be in for such fears, but also reassuring to know that others have gone through them -- and put a name to these fears -- and survived.
Well, enough heavy stuff.
I am starting my marathon of "work every Saturday in May" this weekend. Should be fun! So tomorrow I am off and will be relaxing and not doing a whole lot. The big goal is to run -- I haven't gone since Monday, and I need to get in another one.
Sunday will be a busy day -- we're going to a friend's church, I have to work in the afternoon (program on getting a federal job -- bring the whole family!), and then Trip and I will be attending Doubt (the play) in the evening. Jam-packed!
Friday should be a pretty relaxing day though.
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