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I have a new life goal: to make the kind of money and lead the kind of life that means I can stay at this hotel.

The Witchery, Edinburgh. Every single suite looks like it's been built for a Hammer Horror reboot. I can't decide between "The Old Rectory," where I think they include a free ( Read more... )

A wiki walk this evening took me to buildings like Wat Rong Khun, which is technically a privately funded and owned art exhibit and sculpture garden. Even so, it's known as the White Temple. The work of sculptor Chalermchai Kositpipat, it's full of surprises like this puddle of clawing hands and screaming faces which symbolize unrestrained desire, ( Read more... )

Well, I was looking up addresses for [part-time job], and in trying to confirm the address of the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco, I found ( Read more... )

I'm in SFO awaiting my flight out. Made it through security with only the loss of a jar of caramel. I really want to post something while in an airport, like my more worldly friends often do, so while I'm thinking of it:

The Museum of Jurassic Technology was exactly, exactly my sort of thing. rushthatspeaks, rezendi, you were 100% right that I needed to see it and I'm ( Read more... )

Boy, it'll feel nice to get back to my potted plants and my own bed and my friends in the Boston area. But I will miss this. I have had a gift for blundering into good stuff and fun times this trip. Wanna post about all of it. We'll see how much I get to.

I'm in San Francisco installed at the youth hostel. So tired, you guys. I should go to bed, but I want to get this down while I have the chance ( Read more... )

I'm on my way to LA, on the Surfliner. I splurged and got business class. Inside the car it's much like my prior train trips, only with a trifle more leg room, cleaned more thoroughly than I'm used to, and it comes with a goodie bag including a fig bar and mini-Oreos. The pleasant thing is that it's on top of a tall car, and commands an excellent ( Read more... )

I've been to Youth Traditional Song Weekend, and enjoyed it very much. Now I see what people were making a fuss about. I feel revived. It was a big deal for me: to sit and sing for hours on end with a big group of people, everybody bringing something different and important, and barely ever repeating a song. (And on the occasions we did, it was ( Read more... )

And today I went for a hike with a Meetup group, into the wilds of the Middlesex fells. It was excellent and I'm glad I went. It's ridiculous that I've lived in the Boston area for three years, and in Somerville for four months, and not been there yet. But now I've remedied that. Pine trees, deep woods, and open hilltops, rolling terrain, and a ( Read more... )

I'm in Burlington, Vermont for the weekend. There's no particular event happening; I just haven't been here since the Champlain Valley Folk Festival a few years ago, and I wanted to revisit the Shelburne Museum. It feels good to be somewhere that nobody knows me, I have no set schedule and I can wander at length and admire things and places and ( Read more... )