vacation update
spoon
Originally uploaded by riotjill. I suppose the place to start is a probably sickeningly sweet photo of me and Denise (girl_of_valour), since she's the one who keeps sending me "nudges" to update this. So this photo is from my old Windsor Terrace apartment, which I left in November, to move to Bushwick with her, Kenn, and Ellie.
hood
Originally uploaded by riotjill. Here's the view from our kitchen window.
tooth
Originally uploaded by riotjill. Then this is from our New Year's Eve, which included lots of Scrabble and some wandering around Carroll Gardens and vicinity trying to find a car service that would take us and a tacky but extremely comfortable couch from the street home, unsuccessfully. The tooth mural is right around the corner from the site of our last attempt on Court Street.
Then on New Year's Day we saw Harry and the Potters at Union Hall, and it was really sweet, seeing the teen (and preteen, and even younger!) kids really excited and singing along and things. Other than that, most evenings have consisted of dinner or Scrabble (at which both our scores are consistently improving, though we still need more training before issuing a challenge to The Besties - or any other hardcore players for that matter). Unfortunately, instead of sending me the daily Scrabble calendar again this year, my mother decided to shake it up and send me the daily Sudoku calendar, and all my attempts at that do are make me exceedingly angry because when it's fucked up it's completely fucked up.
Right now we are on vacation in California, and I am writing this at Psychobabble, across the street from my old apartment building in Los Feliz. So far today, we've flown across the country (on the same flight as Molly, who we ran into with Dorothy from WBAR in line at the airport, requiring an obligatory "small world" comment), eaten at Rutabegorz restaurant in Orange with my family, discussed how they'd had "The God Delusion" by Richard Dawkins sitting out to give to me when my evangalical cousins stopped by for a visit yesterday and how my father told them that their accounts of their cut-short missionary trip sounded "hellish" to general dismay, visited the Watts Towers (photo coming tomorrow, probably), and stopped by the Southern California LIbrary for Social Studies and Research which happened to still be open because the day-long DIY Fest was ending.