I had a really good weekend in Boston. Friday night, Dann cooked me a delicious meal, and we ate Jack Snacks (OMG Jack the pumpkin cheesecake! You're my hero!), and then hung out with Heather and Brendan and Vess and drank entirely too much wine. Saturday morning, slept in! Highly necessary. Had breakfast with Heather, then walked from Central ( Read more... )

I was in Boston over the weekend. It was wonderful. Now I am back in Philly, wearing too-tight gray pants at my job and surrounded by people who don't know me at all. So let's talk about Boston!

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I usually get to walk past the Old Burying Ground near Harvard on my way to work. The sign says this graveyard dates to 1635. I've been realizing that old graveyards are one thing about New England that I really appreciate, and old graveyards in autumn are really, really beautiful. Maybe I'll take my camera along one morning and see about taking ( Read more... )

update on the poems i sent out to journals: heard back from the White Pelican Review already. rejection, of course. good turnaround time, though, i may send to them again just for that ( Read more... )

yesterday was a super day! i interviewed with the historic Harrison Gray Otis House, and i think it went really well. SPNEA runs i think most of the historic houses in new england, and i met with the regional director of southeast new england and the head guide for the Otis House. they were both really nice, and the first thing the regional ( Read more... )

so jorn and i took our computers over to Best Buy to get the free check up. here's what the dood told me aobut my computer (which i really didn't know): the CPU speed is 166Mhz, total memory is 31.0M, total disk space is 2.3G, and i have 172.0M free. i've had this computer since '97, and it's worked hard for me, but it's really slow, and if i ( Read more... )