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September 18th, 2009
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| I had a great Time in Seattle with my family. Pictures of our adventurous adventuring can be found here. We visited Pike's Place Market and watched the people who throw fish around. There were a ridiculous number of LSU people in town for the game, and they were all decked out in LSU gear. Seattle's economy probably had an insane bump Labor Day weekend with PAX, Bumbershoot, and the LSU-UW game crowds. We took a ferry across Puget Sound on a clear enough day to see some of the Olympic Mountains as well as the Cascades. The next day also had pretty good weather, so we went up the Space Needle to see the sights. I love all the free telescopes they have to let everyone enjoy the view. We visited a glassblowers studio and watched them work for a while before perusing all the really awesome and way too expensive for me to even consider work they had for sale. Since Dad's birthday was at the end of August, we had delicious cake and ice cream for him while in Seattle. It was the only time Mom, Dad, Karen, and I had all been in the same place since Christmas, so we thought it was a good time for cake. On the day of the game, we went with a group of family friends to Snoqualmie Falls and ate at this really amazing restaurant call Salesh Lodge. The falls were cool to see, but the salmon hash really made the drive worthwhile. Mmmmmm. On our way to the game, we passed a car that was on fire. Firemen were already on the scene but hadn't put the fire out yet. I was rather selfishly pleased about that as this is the first time I have ever seen a car on fire in real life. The game itself was a much closer match than we had been expecting, but I was happy to watch an actual competitive match up that the Tigers totally won. Husky Stadium overlooks Lake Washington, so we could see a veritable flotilla of boats all hanging out for the game. Sunday we visited wineries. One of them had a peacock roaming the grounds. We tasted some nice wines, but I didn't think any of them were worth the hassle to transport back home. Monday we went to the Experience Music Project and the Science Fiction Museum. I'm not sure why, but they are connected and share an entry fee. This is a totally cool thing, and I recommend these museums to anyone going to Seattle. The EMP has an awesome collection of electric guitars and basses (even stand-up basses) that date back to the 1930s. There is also a bunch of recording studios set up with instruments and tutorials on how to play them. I now consider myself a drumming and rhythm guitar expert after spending upwards of 10 minutes on each tutorial. The Science Fiction Museum lacked any sort of hands-on fun (I'm not sure what it would have been anyway.), but I was quite taken with the general shiny awesomeness of the whole thing. Unfortunately they were very strict about the no pictures policy, so you will just have to imagine the wall of various sci-fi weaponry from various movies and tv shows. There was a section on robots, too. Overall I enjoyed the trip and spending time with my family very much. One week is a sufficiently long trip though, and I am happy not to see them again until I go home in October for my cousin's wedding. | ||||||||
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May 28th, 2009
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| Comment and get five questions of your very own to hug and squeeze and call them George. Courtesy of the lovely ![[info] - personal](http://s.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small} modillian:1. Have you ever dyed your hair pink? Ever wanted to dye your hair some unnatural color? I had hot pink streaks in grad school. I didn't maintain them because I didn't feel like spending the money, but I loved how they looked. Every now and then I think about doing something in blue or purple though. 2. What is the best restaurant in your city? How is it the best? It really depends on what kind of food you want. Italian Cafe is the best for Italian food. Their tomato sauce is amazing. Matuba's is my favorite for sushi. They have awesome Alaska rolls. Old Ebbitt's is more expensive, thus reserved for when parents are around to pay for it, but it has the best upscale Americana food. 3. If a knick-knack-paddywhacked, would you give a dog a bone or send him rolling home? I don't take that kind of sass. That dog is rolling home. 4. When you're sporting a red hat and wearing purple and sitting in a rocking chair at the ripe age of 80, what do you want to look back on your life and feel proud to have accomplished? I don't want to have ever stopped going and moving and doing. 5. Let's say next year there will be another Star Trek movie with the same cast as this year's movie and they're rooting about in the universe in the 23rd century. Who would you most like to see in a role/cameo and why? I want Shatner and Patrick Stewart to both have ~1 second, uncredited crowd cameos to watch the internet explode with fanboys trying to figure out whether they're actually in it or not. | ||||||||
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May 25th, 2009
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| This has been quite a weekend for awesome stuff. Friday night, I saw Arcadia at the Folger Theater, a Shakespearean theater in DC, and it was amazing. Despite having studied Arcadia in undergrad and written my huge honors paper on chaos theory and Arcadia, I had never actually seen it performed. The Folger cast made up for it tremendously with their show. The woman who played Thomasina (aged 13 for most of the play and 17 for the last bit) was fantastic at convincing the audience she was a good 20 years younger than her real age. It was so much fun to watch with a smart and engaged audience as well. I had a great time chatting with the couple behind me during intermission about how we came to see Arcadia. I think I will make a point to try and see more shows at the Folger because the atmosphere is really nice there. Saturday, Brooke and I saw Star Trek with ell, and it was hilarious and full of awesome. I met up with ell for a very tasty dinner at a pub in her apartment building. They had double chocolate bread pudding. This has inspired me to search for chocolate bread recipes. I think it would taste quite good with honey or peanut butter. So everyone totally needs to see this movie. It really doesn't matter if you don't know anything about the tv series (any of them) because the movie is really funny and accessible. Yes, you will get more jokes the more familiar you are with i>Star Trek</i>, but I think the concept of a switch blade axe should be pretty hilarious to the general public. Also, freaking everybody is in this movie. You will see actors you never expected around every turn. Paul McGillion (aka Carson Beckett from SGA) has a 10 second cameo. (PS. Sorry to everyone in my theater that heard me shout "Oh man, that was totally Paul McGillion in that scene." right after his cameo was over.) Also, I am all about Kirk/Bones their love is so exasperated.Sunday, I bought a new bathing suit. I realized when we went to Disney that my main suit didn't really fit me right any more. The suit I got from Fashion Bug, it was the first one I tried on, and it was on sale. This does not happen to me when it comes to swim suits, so I will strongly encourage any other women who wear plus sizes to check out Fashion Bug if you are looking for a swim suit. Today, we went to Rachel's for a Wii Party. Lots of fun, lots of everyone swearing at each other in Mario Kart. I played one round to be a good sport and screwed up tremendously which was fun. There was also delicious ice cream cake. Yay for long weekends full of awesome! | ||||||||
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May 5th, 2009
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| I have a Dreamwidth account now. Thanks, marcelle42! I'll still keep cross-posting here and there. I think I'm going to abandon the IJ though; nothing's really going on over there. Yesterday the women's bathroom at work smelled like baked beans, and the floor was sticky. I don't want to know how the two are related. Today it didn't smell like beans, but the floor was still a bit sticky. Ewww. In awesome money news, all the math stats at my work were supposed to get a pay adjustment upwards effective March 15. Since they didn't really tell anyone about it, none of us knew we were supposed to be getting more money until today. Boss's Boss didn't even know. Now that he does, he has spent the morning contacting the appropriate people to get all of our pay scales changed. I don't know how long it will take the payroll people to make the changes for the ~20 employees affected, but we will be getting a lump sum for the money that should have been added to our last 3 (so far) paychecks. Hurray for finding money I didn't even know was missing! This weekend was the spring show for the Sahara Dance where I take belly dance classes. Since I wasn't performing, I volunteered to help out for 3 of the four shows (one Saturday and two Sunday) since I wanted to watch the show at least once. It was way more draining that I expected, but the shows were amazing. I actually got to watch all 4 shows because I ran the merchandise booth before, during intermission, and after the late Saturday show, and I took pictures during both Sunday shows. It's been a while since I've been co-opted for my photography skills. I got a chance to delete the obviously blurred pictures before I passed the camera back to the stage manager, but I worry that the rest of the pictures won't be very clear either. The combination of low lighting, shiny costumes, and lots of movement really killed my chances of getting very many decent shots. I'm not sure why they had me do it anyway since they hired a professional photographer to take pictures as well. If the decent pictures get posted online anywhere, I'll link to the ones I'm not embarrassed of later. | ||||||||
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January 23rd, 2009
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| Brooke and I went to the Inaugural Parade Tuesday and were lucky enough to wander by a volunteer as she was passing out tickets for the bleacher area near the President's viewing area. It was nice to be able to sit and huddle for warmth with all the other people in the stands. We got there around 11.30, expecting the parade to start at 2.30 and get to us around 3. The parade didn't actually start until after 3.30 due to, as we learned the next day, Sen. Kennedy having a seizure during the luncheon. It was totally worth the wait and the cold because Obama got out of his car and walked with Michelle for the last blocks of the parade where we were sitting. I only got one blurry picture of them, but Brooke took video of the whole thing. I'll post a link once she puts it on the internet. Owing to the delay and the cold, about 90% of the crowd left after the presidential part of the parade was over. I felt really bad for the parade participants because hardly anyone was there to see them. Toward the end of the parade, marchers were thanking Brooke and I for staying to watch them. We were pretty much the only people beside event staff left in a half block space that had been crammed with people earlier in the day. The nice thing about staying until the end of the parade was that there was no crowd in the metro. Pretty much everyone had left over two hours before we did. All pictures of the parade are here. After I finished posting all my photos, I started going through the stats on my flickr page and noticed a huge jump in views earlier this month. Before the picture with the most views only had ~650. Now the picture with the most views has almost 3500, and it's one of the pictures of Neil Gaiman that I took at the book festival in September. Looking through the referrer pages, I found out that I had been linked from one of Neil Gaiman's blog posts. Someone had found my pictures and wanted to know what type of fountain pen he was using to sign books. I'm thinking about sending an email to Gaiman telling him he is welcome to use my pictures whenever he wants and maybe he could sign one and send it to me. Still my flickr page got linked on Neil Gaiman's blog, and that is probably the coolest internet thing that has ever happened to me. | ||||||||
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January 18th, 2009
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| I was there, and it was awesome! How awesome? Behold the lineup of speakers and performers: Denzel Washington Bruce Springsteen - The Rising Laura Linney and MLK III Mary J. Blige - Lean on Me Jamie Foxx and Steve Carrell Bettye LaVette and Jon Bon Jovi - It's Been a Long Time Coming Tom Hanks Marisa Tomei James Taylor, John Legend, Jennifer Nettles - Shower the People with Love Joe Biden John Mellencamp - Ain't that America Queen Latifah Josh Groban and Heather Headley - My Country 'Tis of Thee George Lopez and Kal Penn Herbie Hancock, Will.I.Am, Sheryl Crow - One Love (let's get together and feel alright) medley into Where Is the Love? Tiger Woods US Naval Academy Glee Club and Renee Fleming - Walk on Through the Wind Jack Black and Rosario Dawson Garth Brooks - American Pie, Shout, We Shall Be Free Ashley Judd and Forest Whitaker Usher, Stevie Wonder, Shakira - Higher Ground Samuel L. Jackson U2 - Pride(In the Name of Love), City of Blinding Lights Barack Obama Bruce Springsteen, Pete Seeger - This Land Is Your Land Beyonce and everyone else (Stevie Wonder on harmonica) - America the Beautiful That is how awesome it was. You can watch it on hbo.com at 11 EST if you haven't already. I didn't manage many pictures and managed almost no good ones. What I'm not too ashamed to show other people can be found here. | ||||||||
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September 28th, 2008
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| The forecast said rain all day, so I left my sunglasses at home, didn't wear sunscreen, and brought my umbrella. It sprinkled 3 times throughout the day, and I ended up sunburned. This was all totally worth it. First talk of the day, I heard Judith Viorst who has written adult fiction and non-fiction, poetry, and children's fiction. Perhaps you have heard of Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day? She is an energetic and humorous speaker, and I think her talk was good for kids and adults. She read her new children's book, Nobody Here but Me, about what a boy gets up to when his parents are ignoring him. (Hint: Nothing good.) After that I wandered around for a while collecting free stuff until it was time for her book signing. I got her to sign my copy of Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day. I like that book because sometimes you just need to be reminded that bad days happen, even in Australia. One kid at the talk asked if Alexander, based on Viorst's son Alexander, ever did go to Australia. Answer: No, but he almost did once. As Viorst's line was longer than I expected, Neil Gaiman's talk had already started by the time I got my book signed. I decided it would be a better idea to go ahead and get in line for Neil Gaiman's signing than to only hear half his talk since the Library of Congress is going to put up videos of all the author talks later this week. This was a very good idea. I was in line over an hour before he was supposed to start signing, and I didn't get my books signed until almost an hour after he started signing. Now I'm not a very good judge of crowd size, but there were probably well over 500 people in line for Neil Gaiman. The only other author that even came close was Tiki Barber whose line looked about half the size of Gaiman's, and that's only because he used to play in the NFL. Neil Gaiman signed books with a fountain pen which he had to refill just before it was my turn for book signing. I got Fragile Things signed for Ru and Good Omens signed for me. Terry Pratchett signed Good Omens for me at last year's festival with "Burn this book." Neil Gaiman laughed when he saw it and added "* Apply holy match here." after Pratchett's note. I am still very gleeful over this. I wanted to get Katherine Paterson to sign Bridge to Terabithia, but the volunteers said she was only signing her most recent book. Boohiss. I understand a limit on the number of things an author signs, but I don't understand limiting what those things will be. I hadn't even heard of her new book. It has zero sentimental value for me. So I used the time I was going to spend in Paterson's line resting in the shade before I got in line for Immaculee Ilibagiza. She's a survivor of the Rwandan genocide in the 1990s. Her book Left to Tell is about her life in Rwanda. Mom read it as part of Baton Rouge's Big Read this summer and passed it on to me. I didn't like it nearly as much as Mom did, but I do respect Ilibagiza's current work with the UN. I got Mom's copy of Left to Tell signed which should make her happy. Since it started actually raining soon after that, I decided to head home. The pictures I got of the day are here. When the Library of Congress does post the videos of the author talks, they will be here. I'm pretty sure it will be sometime this week. | ||||||||
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September 20th, 2008
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| But not nearly so bad this time. I got a cold while I was in Pittsburgh, and I should be 100% by Monday. The Mt. Vernon craft fair was a lot of fun last weekend. I like talking with the merchants. Since they mostly all know each other from the fair circuit, they know where to go for various items. I told the soapmaker I was disappointed that the people I bought my cool striped socks from last year weren't there, and he told me about another, bigger craft fair in October that the guy would definitely be at. As my schedule is currently open that weekend, I plan on going, not just for more socks, but because I like craft fairs. I got a cool blown glass pitcher, some Christmas presents, and some candies at the fair. The Kennedy Center open house was also a good time. I listened to a western swing band comprised of teenage boys. So cute and tiny! One of the older gentlemen asked me to dance several times, and he made me look like I knew what I was doing. The old guys who look like mechanics are always the best country dancers. The Aspen Sante Fe Dance Company did a very interesting show. I really liked their first two dances, but the third was a bit to modern art/contemporary dance for me. The little boy next to me told his mom that he liked the first dance best because they were wearing the most clothes in that one. It's so nice to see children growing up with a fine appreciation for the arts. I listened to a great Cuban salsa band for a while before leaving to get in line for the step show with Step Afrika which was the big final show. They were amazing. Several fraternities and sororities also performed, but Step Afrika was definitely the best. I might try and make it to one of their shows since they are based in DC. The conference was not quite as much fun. I planned to take the Amtrak to and from Pittsburgh. 20 minutes before the train was supposed to leave Sunday afternoon, they announce that the train is cancelled. I'm still not sure of the actual reason, but I did hear rumors of flooding in the midwest. After standing in line to talk to a supervisor with everyone else that wanted to take that train (DC to Pittsburgh to Chicago), word filtered through that there was a Greyhound going to Pittsburgh, so a group of us who meant to go only to Pittsburgh got out of line and waited to see if Amtrak would arrange something for us. Not so much, we finally snagged an employee wandering by who told us what counter to go to for a refund and where the Greyhound station was. I found another woman going to the same conference I was, so we stuck together at the Greyhound station and on the bus. Thankfully, Greyhound held the bus for 15 minutes so that everyone coming over from Amtrak could make it. Taking the bus is not nearly as relaxing as taking the train, but I still got there. The conference itself had a number of very good talks that related to stuff I work on and lots of free food. Unfortunately the rooms were freezing cold, even the presenters were wearing jackets. We got to go to a Pittsburgh Pirates game Monday night. They lost horribly to the Dodgers, but everyone had a good time booing Manny Ramirez, especially the Red Sox fans. Also unfortunately, I started getting a cold at the game. Bleh. The second day of the conference, I slept in between talks but undid the rest by dancing all night at the conference party. In my defense the dj was really good. Wednesday brought more Amtrak stress. The train was supposed to leave at 5.45, and I should have gotten back to DC at 1.30 in the afternoon. Instead, the train didn't leave until about 8.30, and I didn't get to DC until after 5. I slept most of the trip and blew my nose constantly when I was awake. At least I get credit for all the time spent waiting for the train. Thursday night I went to a reception for the president of my undergrad. He's retiring at the end of this school year, and various alumni chapters are hosting parties in his honor. I caught up with several people I had known at Spring Hill (Chip and Kerry, I will call you later with the gossipy details.) and met an older alum who knows most of both sides of my family. He goes to the same church as my parents. The food at the party was really good, and I had a great time talking to people. This weekend I do not plan to leave my apartment at all. I need a break from socializing, and I need to rest up for next weekend. The National Book Festival will be an all-day, people-filled event. I'm very excited to get my copy of Good Omens (that Terry Pratchett signed last year) signed by Neil Gaiman. If anyone wants something signed by one of the authors, let me know soon (Ru, this means you!). I'm not promising anything because I have stuff of my own (and Mom's) that have priority, but I will try. | ||||||||
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August 24th, 2008
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| I really haven't felt like going any where or talking to anyone recently, probably a combination of having been sick and dealing with people last weekend. My friend's wedding was nice. It was weird for me to see the service officiated by a woman as I was raised Catholic and have not attended very many services of other religions. I liked the vows and what the reverend said as advice to the couple more than what I've heard at the other weddings I've been to. I don't know if they were standard vows for Presbyterians. I don't think the couple wrote them themselves. The reception was nice because there were several other people from work (that I like) there, and we had a table together. I didn't get any good pictures though, probably a combination of being sick and having my batteries die early in the reception. Seeing The Dark Knight in IMAX was a completely awesome experience. If I see it again in theaters, it will definitely be in IMAX. The big sweeping panoramic shots scattered throughout the film are so amazing on the extra big screen. We did end up going to the late showing because the earlier one was sold out. Brooke and I ate dinner and hung out at Barnes & Noble while we waited. As we ignored one of the beggars we walked past, he shouted "Thanks for being modest." after us. I don't know what word he meant to say or if he thought modest was a bad thing, but he sounded like he meant it as an insult. We were both very o_O. At the theater, the usher had to yell at people to shift seats so that 3 deaf guys could sit together with their close caption filters. They have these screens that attach to the seat arms that let a person read the close caption on the bottom of the screen. It's a very clever way to allow everyone to watch the movie without having some tool complain about the words on the screen getting in the way of his movie. Work was hectic when I was there this week. I missed more time due to sickness. I spent a ridiculous amount of time trying to debug a problem with my code, only to find out the problem was with the data set I was given. Rar. I did have other things I needed to work on, too. They won't all get done this week either because Mom and Dad are coming in on Wednesday; I'm taking Thursday and Friday off. We have a list of stuff we're going to try and do, including getting my new car. I did put some new pics up on flickr, all of the cats though. In less than awesome news, SGA is being cancelled at the end of this season, a season which has so far contained some of the best episodes of the series. I understand they're doing it for financial reasons, but I don't have to like it. They are going to make a movie after this season and start up a new Stargate series. I don't know if I'm going to be able to get behind a whole new cast of space adventurers with such an abrupt transition. | ||||||||
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August 15th, 2008
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| Wretched sore throat plus earache kept me home from work today. I couldn't get a doctor's appointment until 6 pm though, and I called when they opened this morning! They did a strep test which came back negative, so they did a mono test as well. Apparently sore throat with swollen lymph nodes is a symptom of mono. I'm not any more tired than usual, so I doubt that test will come back positive. Usually I would just wait this out with tylenol and juice, but my friend is getting married tomorrow, and I'm going to see Batman in IMAX on Sunday with Brooke and Toni. Thank goodness for prescription drugs. Otakon last Sunday was fun. It was great seeing Natalie and Judith. I spent way more money than I should have, of course, but I'm very pleased with my purchases. Particularly pleasing is my new red shirt. It has a drawing of a strawberry dressed as a ninja and reads "Berry Ninja for Great Justice." Awesome. The latest news from work about telecommuting computers is interesting. I can have a tower, keyboard, and mouse right now. However, there are no available monitors until October when the new fiscal year starts. Whatever. I went ahead and bought a desk from IKEA because I wanted to do that while I still had the truck. It has been assembled and will, presumably, sit empty until I can take a complete computer home from work. The office area of our apartment looks much more office-like now though. The desk comes with a whiteboard section. Once I buy some dry erase markers and an eraser, I'm sure the board will quickly fill up with drawings of dicks, boobs, and stick people in inappropriate positions. | ||||||||
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August 9th, 2008
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| Woohoo, men's gymnastics! The opening ceremony was pretty freaking cool, not nearly as crack-inspired as Turin's, but quite impressive. I love how they lit the stadium torch. The irony of McDonald's being an Olympic host continues to amuse. Tomorrow is Otakon in Baltimore. Brooke and I are going to meet our friends, Natalie and Judith, there. They've been there for the whole con, but we didn't want to pay the $65 to just go Saturday, so we're going Sunday for $20. I don't really know what I'm going to spend the day doing, but I'm sure it will be interesting. I finally caught up with Toni, my other high school friend who lives in the DC area. She's always so busy with the 14 million things she's involved in that we hardly ever see her, even though she lives so near by. She took me to the woman who does her tattoos up here. I'm still trying to decide on the exact design of my theater mask tattoo. I keep googling for images, but nothing looks right. Having me try to draw what I see in my head is about as useless as asking a cat considering my drawing skills. I'll probably end up bringing her the closest image I can find, then tell her what I don't like about it. | ||||||||
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July 29th, 2008
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| I know it's been over a month since I posted. I went on family vacation, and I wanted to wait until I'd put my pictures up on flickr before I wrote about it. Still haven't gotten the pictures on flickr yet. Maybe that'll happen later this week. ( Vacation ) ( Work ) ( Anonymous ) ( Fangirling ) ( Family ) | ||||||||
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June 21st, 2008
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| The Friday night Mystics game was fun. Like with all his season tickets, Stewart had the best possible seats, right behind the opposing team's bench. May I just say that both the Atlanta Dream and the Washington Mystics are comprised of very attractive ladies. The first half was badly played by both teams, but the second half was really good. The Mystics won, mainly by being more proficient at free throws. Now I have been to at least one game of each professional sports league in the US. I'm quite proud of myself for this. This afternoon I went to a Can't Stop the Serenity showing at the Arlington Cinema 'n Drafthouse a few blocks down the street from my apartment. I didn't get to see Serenity when it came out in theaters because I was in Germany, so I was happy to get the chance to see it on the big screen. The Drafthouse is pretty cool and in walking distance. They show a small number of movies after they've stopped running in regular theaters, tickets $5, and they have live shows, usually comedians. The seating is at staggered bars and tables throughout the theater, and the waiters serve food and drink throughout the shows. I had the mozzerella sticks, and they were quite good. On my way into the show, I noticed a street festival which I explored after the movie. It was a blues festival with a live band playing. Many of the area restaurants had booths. One place was selling quarts of fruit salad for $1! That's an awesome deal for a mixed quart of grapes, strawberries, and pineapple. I stayed until the festival ended at 8 then came home to tell you all about my awesome day. | ||||||||
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June 2nd, 2008
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This weekend was both busy and awesome. Friday night, I had dinner at the lovely ![[info]](http://www.insanejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} shrieking_ell's apartment with her, temve, mrshamill, and katbear. There was so much delicious food and fun conversation. All their talk of con going made me quite jealous. Although, I think Brooke and I might be going to Otakon and meeting our friends, Natalie and Judith, there. (Is that still happening?)Saturday morning, I baked macaroni and cheese for a bbq/pool party with some non-lj friends. More delicious food and drink were had. Everyone ended up in the pool at some point during the day, willing or not. I was prepared and brought a bathing suit, so I didn't have to worry about going home soaking wet. It was nice to hang out and relax, though I am still sore from all the roughhousing and horseplay in the pool. My muscles are not used to such (any) exercise! I am very much looking forward to my trip home on Friday. I'm still not sure what plans my parents have made for me with regards to seeing family members. Once I find out, I will be calling several of you about when we can hang out. | ||||||||
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