I'm behind on saying all the fun and horrible stuff that's been going on -- there's a lot of it -- but here is what's happened on my trip so far ( Read more... )

Saturday I had all day until my train at 7pm, so I planned to go to the Cloisters, since I didn't manage it last trip and it came highly recommended. It's great, loads of interesting European Christian art in a building specially constructed to incorporate pieces of other buildings.

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I took a long lunch on Friday and ate a giant plate of nachos -- if I get to go back to NYBG there will be return visits to OK Mr. Pancho. On the way back, I visited the exhibits on the Garden grounds.

( Model trains and Japanese chrysanthemums )

I am in bed with Nyquil and doxycycline, so this is a good time to catch up on posting about my second trip to NYBG. I made lots of tweets, and these are the herbarium-related ones with some extra notes.

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I went to Cider Days last Sunday and tweeted some things about it, mostly during the Cider 101 tasting event. Here they are.

Only missed one cider. Whew.
November 8, 2015

Perry! Good variety names; Bloody Bastard, Butt, Merrylegs. Tastes nothing like pears, but good.
November 8, 2015

Oh crap, perry has naturally occurring sorbitol. Cross fingers I ( Read more... )

I can't say the same for the Barbies outside my bedroom window, though.


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One moment of being intensely pleased with myself: I decided that hateboners are filled with bile instead of blood. Am I right or am I right? (Also, then I said "HEADCANON". :D ( Read more... )

Leaving tomorrow morning at 5:39am, flying through Dulles before the worst of the snow hits (I hope), in Seattle hopefully around 11am ( Read more... )

I didn't actually get to my drawing last night since I was busy coming home from NYC and dealing with considerable cat mess, but I'm caught up now ( Read more... )

Yesterday:
17:10 cats land in Boston as air cargo
18:00 cats arrive at home and disperse themselves invisibly into the apartment while i refuel and return the Zipcar
18:30 I return to the apartment and easily find Bat, whose idea of hiding appears to be simply becoming flat while adjacent to an armchair (he later improves on this by wedging himself ( Read more... )