Dear readers (all two of you),

As you know from reading this here LJ, I have this boyfriend. He's pretty awesome, if I do say so myself.

Exhibit A:
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Last week, in the company of Pam, I made a visit to Blacksburg. It was my first trip there since we stayed at Chris and Jen's on the way to Bonnaroo in '06, and this year it was a totally different kind of visit, since it was the one-year anniversary of the shooting.

I really wasn't sure what to expect, but I knew I needed to be there. Last year ( Read more... )

Friday was our last day in Italy, and we had the whole day to spend in Venice.

Like our hotel in Rome, Residenza Goldoni offered breakfast, but we only got to enjoy it Friday since we left so early on Thursday, and would be leaving very early Saturday as well. In a slightly different scenario from Rome, you told the desk the night before what you ( Read more... )

Yes, that's a Silence of the Lambs reference. A bit morbid for vacation, but we were quoting it the whole time we were in Florence, because we're weird.

We headed out VERY early to catch our train to Florence- we had chosen a train that left at about 6:45, so we'd have plenty of time there. This meant leaving the hotel at the crack to take the ( Read more... )

On Wednesday morning, we headed toward Termini Station in Rome to catch our train to Venice. The train was delayed a bit, and we sat in the station for a while eating what was left of the groceries we'd bought Monday and shivering, because the weather had gotten much cooler that day, and it was raining.

When we boarded, we found our seats (facing ( Read more... )

This past weekend I went to visit Tom in DC. I won't go too far into how much the flight down sucked, because I'm trying not to dwell on it, but man, am I glad I'm flying a different airline in April. And I'm going to Reagan too. Hallelujah.

The Cherry Blossom Festival had begun, so we spent most of Saturday walking around on the mall. There were a ( Read more... )

Our final day in Rome.

On Tuesday we slept in a bit, and got up just in time to go downstairs for breakfast before they shut down. Following breakfast, we went back upstairs and...back to bed for another hour. Those damn Tylenol PMs knocked me out, and I was super groggy. Luckily the nap helped us both, and by late morning we were ready to head out ( Read more... )

More Italia Goodness!

Monday morning started with (free/included) breakfast in our hotel, which consisted of hard rolls, cheese, salami, ham, pastry, coffee, juice, and NUTELLA. Nom. When we'd finished breakfast, we made a detour to this grocery store near out hotel, where we bought blood orange juice (already addicted, you see), some snacks, wine, ( Read more... )

OK, so here it is, the first in a long-awaited series of entries about the big trip to Italy. I will cut these for length. Because oh man, this is long.

Our flight left Boston at 6PM on Saturday night, March 1st. I spent the last few minutes in America sitting on the floor of Terminal E at Logan eating chicken mcnuggets, because for some reason my ( Read more... )

Today, the cast of Murphy Brown was reunited on the Today Show. I loooooved Murphy Brown so I was pleased to see all of them. The only weird part was that Grant Shaud, who played Miles, was "there" via satellite from LA, and when Meredith Viera asked him about leaving the show early, he said he was sad to leave, and all his castmates looked ( Read more... )