In, doubtless, one of my weirder 4ths on record, Daniel invited me to a party on the banks of the Potomac -- just over on the VA side across from the monuments (which, yes, it's not hard for anything one does in DC on July 4 to be, like, the urtext of patriotism). He gave me a map, saying they'd be down there all day and I should come whenever ( Read more... )

My weekend, a snapshot:

FRIDAY: Birthday gathering in Baltimore. Drove up straight from work. Floated around between bar, house, and restaurant for the next 7 hours. Stayed over. Breakfast. Home at 2:30 in the afternoon.

SATURDAY: 7:30 PM -- Barbeque hosted by the very nice IT guy who brews his own beer, where I knew absolutely no one but ( Read more... )

I'm at the tail end of a long day. Dundee this morning, which, I feel at this point, should give me some sort of dual citizenship. And then off to Stirling with mercuryfading where we ate Mexican food in addition to the Mexican we had after the exhibition opening in Edinburgh on Friday night and went to see the Stirling Literary Society's talk on the oral ( Read more... )

Like Speed only far, far boringer.

I'm doing a birthday dinner again this year since last year's was so much fun. I need food suggestions. Last year I had:

appetizers

• cheese and crackers
  
• grapes
  
• hummus with pretzel sticks

main dishes

• vegetarian gumbo
  
• rosemary/lemon marinated broiled chicken skewers
  
• red beans and rice
  
• green salad
  
• vinegar cucumber ( Read more... )

So I totally finished knitting the open-ended head covering thingy. And it is freaking adorable. I'm so proud that I came up with the pattern all on my own ( Read more... )

Sometimes all you can do is sit back and enjoy the stream of consciousness.I went to the Renaissance Festival, the Takoma Park Folk Festival and the First Americans Festival. I am very festive. I went to my dad's wedding where I read some expected readings. Last weekend I sold stuff at an indie crafts fair and dropped in on the Small Press Expo ( Read more... )

Abandon lunch all ye who enter here.

a skull and fur

another skull and fur

a spine and ribs

a pelvis

And (mostly!) non-gross photos:

Staitlin and Katie, like, adopted this little girl and hunted crawfish and minnows with her in the canal in Berkeley Springs. I was less interested.

possibly the coolest library ever in Shepardstown

Marlowe ( Read more... )

Moist. It's definitely humid and walking outside makes one feel a little dirty. Lovely. I wish it would just rain already ( Read more... )

I'm so busy right now. I could use a little break. And about 36 hours in the day. I'm throwing a dinner on Saturday night. Matt's giving me good-natured crap about hosting my own party. I just want to see people and let them know I still like them. I do not know who will come. Nor do I know how everyone is supposed to have a seat, since my " ( Read more... )

the Universe in balance:

minus the first: I'm sick...again.
minus the second: saw on the news last night that the first of the cicadas have crawled their ugly little selves up to the surface.

plus the first: it's about 90 degrees right now and I can't quite remember what it feels like to be cold.
plus the second: I'm about to watch Time Bandits ( Read more... )