Woke up early to catch subway train to meet my friend and go to horse farm. We painted the metal bars on the jungle gym, some tables, and fences. Of course, I talk too loud and she deemed my retelling of someone else's story inappropriate. *sad face* It's not like I was saying anything more outrageous that what those Mormon boys might have heard. ( Read more... )

Chuck Palahniuk is on tour for his book, Pygmy, and he was at Borders this Saturday. One of my friends from college really enjoyed his books and I didn't get around to reading Fight Club until relatively recently. When Jessica and I got to the bookstore around 4:30, all the seats were taken. Jessica commented that it might have been the most ( Read more... )

While I was trying to educate myself about what Virginia elected officials as the Soil and Water Conservation Directors are responsible for, I stumbled upon a retail site that I wanted to share!

Shopping with the State of Virginia: links that show you were to buy fire prevention manuals, peach seedlings, see bass puppets, faberge eggs, and more!! I ( Read more... )

Definition of this particular syllogism, Fallacy of Undistributed Middle. Link from Sarah.

NY Times article, "Exercise: Link Is Seen Between Crime and Fitness" talks about a study of Arkansas inmates that suggests criminals there's a link between physical fitness and criminal behavior because a higher than average percentage of prison inmates are ( Read more... )

The Smithsonian Folklife Festival starts this week and I'm happy that Debbie has agreed to go with me! We're going to see the Texas exhibit, "From Cattle Drives to Winery Trails: Food and Wine" and "The Thunder Dragon Comes to Washington." I told Debbie that  "I hope it's tasty food, and not bad cowboy food." She got excited, "I've never had cowboy ( Read more... )

I told Dom I would post, and then I forgot! I'm making up for it now. This past week, I was visiting my friend, Sarah, while she's dogsitting. It was fun but I kept falling asleep when we tried to watch movies. It was tragic. Last night, I started dozing off at 9:30 ( Read more... )

Tonight, flying out for vacation but I've got to complete work-related things and final vacation stuff. Around the end of Thursday afternoon, Dom and I were talking about Friday plans since a high school classmate is visiting this Labor Day weekend but I'll be away. I've been looking forward to traveling for months, but it's as if I just started ( Read more... )

My friend, Ed, was talking about how he wished that there was more than one intern on his project so they could race them. Kathryn said that wouldn't be fun, and when she was an intern, she wouldn't have wanted to be raced. Then, Ed raised his arms over his head, and waved them around like some kind of easygoing chimpanzee saying, "I didn't have ( Read more... )

Wednesday afternoon, I had my first account-wide meeting. Like the brown bag luncheon I attended previously, this was conducted in a conference room over the phone with powerpoint. The majority of staff are in Kansas, so they were at a game center, and the connection wasn't good. Sometimes, people weren't speaking loudly enough into the phone, and ( Read more... )

Today is the twins' 25th birthday, so I e-mailed Julie birthday wishes, and inquired after her cross-country train vacation she took in May. She sent me pictures of her vacation, and I definitely freaked out about being so out-of-it with her. She said she was meeting Angel for lunch because they worked near each other. At least, I saw Angel two ( Read more... )