Other pictures form my NYC adventures.

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Today's adventure:

* I woke with a slight headache, heading toward migraine-land. I took Vitamin I and Imitrex immediately, not willing to lose a day to a headache. On the way to the train a cafe was giving away free coffee, so I added caffiene and a cranberry muffin to the mix and all was right with the world.

* Sightseeing-wise it was all Met all ( Read more... )

Today's adventures:

* Up at 7:30 to walk to a convenient subway station. It's funny, noone walks here. The chica at the front desk looked at me crazy when I said I was going to walk a mile to avoid making three transfers and wasting almost an hour on the subway. :p

* The Cloisters were amazing. The only sadness was that they really meant 1100-1300 ( Read more... )

The word of the day is particularly appropriate as I take myself off to The Cloisters...

The M-W Word of the Day for April 29 is:

palimpsest \PAL-imp-sest\ noun
1 : writing material (as a parchment or tablet) used one or more times after earlier writing has been erased
*2 : something having usually diverse layers or aspects apparent beneath the ( Read more... )

Today began entirely too early. I'm fine with 4AM as a bedtime, but it's a rough time to be getting up. :p

However, I was getting up in the name of a good cause - I caught the 5:30AM flight to New York for a long weekend of geektastic glee. It is my prezzie to myself for finishing my formulary and happily made financially feasible by April being a ( Read more... )

A little bit of a biography of a cool renaissance woman,
a little bit of a study on the vagarities of research
and how sometimes everything falls perfectly into place.

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While in Boston, I absolutely fell in love with a portrait in the Isabella Stuart Gardner Gallery. ( Read more... )

Tidbits from here and there around the East Coast trip - the trimmings and selvages as it were...

Friends Old and New

One of the best parts of my trip to the East Coast was time spent with friends. I got to spend a lot of time with 
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There is entirely too much to even begin to summarize the few galleries I did see, so I’ll simply highlight my very favorite pieces.


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I very much love my house, with its Tardis-like levels and Sweet Midori kitchen, but I have long dreamed of someday building a lovely castle… I now have an amendment to that. I don’t need a castle as if I could move into the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. Mrs. Gardner built the building to house her collection and opened it to the public as a ( Read more... )