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Eclecticism At Its Best: Here comes the sun...or perhaps the hurricane...
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Friday, October 23, 2009. Here comes the sun.or perhaps the hurricane. We're boarding this cat (spoiled rotten; but the alternative is to come home to a bird blood bath) and we're going on a cruise (tomorrow)! I'm so excited (wahoo! To get out of dodge with my honey (husband of my dreams) and take a week to decompress. (Plus, they have cheese plates on cruise ships! Where are you cruising? October 26, 2009 at 9:13 AM. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Books Fill My Mind. A VW For Everybody.
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Some Untidy Spot: The Year of Skills: Part 3
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A Rock, Not an Island. Sunday, May 20, 2012. The Year of Skills: Part 3. July was positively lame compared to June. I know, I know, I'm sorry, but I can't keep up that level of glamor forever. Another thing I can't keep forever- check out that smooth transition- is my bicycle. While we were in Ethiopia over Christmas, our next-door neighbor who never locks the doors (we live in Oakland: who doesn't lock the doors? Some time later (occasionally some long. Time later) it's fixed. It's like magic! Mike's pa...
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Eclecticism At Its Best: Christmas Spirit
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Wednesday, December 16, 2009. As we don’t have a tree up this year and the economy has kind of crunched our purchasing activities we have had a really tough time getting into the “Christmas spirit”. I tried several things—listening to and performing Christmas music, making cookies, drinking lots of Abuelita, and incorporating winter smells into our house, but nothing really worked. Then the following happened:. 2) Went to a Christmas party. 4) Went to another Christmas party. 5) I worked on some gifts.
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Some Untidy Spot: Ethiopia Diary
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A Rock, Not an Island. Tuesday, September 04, 2012. I tried to keep a day-by-day account of our Ethiopia trip way back in January, in the hopes that I could turn it into an awesome blog post. Because, of course, I excel at writing trip reports. Like the great posts about the Vietnam trip where I got arrested, or our trip to Turkey in 2010, or our trip to Indonesia in 2011. Oh wait- I didn't blog about any. Ethiopia, December/January 2012. Day 2: Still in transit. Does air travel always take this long?
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Some Untidy Spot: January 2012
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A Rock, Not an Island. Monday, January 23, 2012. I read far, far fewer books this year than last year. First of all, my commute changed (to become much shorter; hooray! But second of all, my New Year's resolution for the year meant far less reading time than usual. (More on that later.). So it's hard to write a "best books" post when I have only 88 books to choose from. I should change the rules to include New Yorker. The Bonfire of the Vanities. The Name of the Rose. The Warmth of Other Suns. This is wh...
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Some Untidy Spot: The Year of Skills: Part Whichever-Part-Is-Last
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A Rock, Not an Island. Friday, June 08, 2012. The Year of Skills: Part Whichever-Part-Is-Last. At the beginning of the year I made a list of the skills I might like to learn, the further out of my comfort zone, the better. (Scuba diving? One of the items I put on the list was "martial arts"- yes, that's right, the generic kind- because I've never tried anything like that before, and doesn't that seem like I'm missing out? Adults-only was ideal (I didn't want to be a Kramer. I even learned a few basic cho...
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Some Untidy Spot: April 2012
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A Rock, Not an Island. Friday, April 06, 2012. No Fear of Flying. Dallas has a lot of swimming pools. I mean, it makes sense, but still- as you fly over almost every single house has a bright blue dot in the backyard. This is what I've observed as I've flown through the Dallas-Forth Worth airport three times in the last three months. Also, the airport is enormous. The trip to Ethiopia was really good aside from the canceled flight at the end. More on that later, I hope.). We're in the air! Fame (but not ...
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Some Untidy Spot: September 2012
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A Rock, Not an Island. Tuesday, September 04, 2012. I tried to keep a day-by-day account of our Ethiopia trip way back in January, in the hopes that I could turn it into an awesome blog post. Because, of course, I excel at writing trip reports. Like the great posts about the Vietnam trip where I got arrested, or our trip to Turkey in 2010, or our trip to Indonesia in 2011. Oh wait- I didn't blog about any. Ethiopia, December/January 2012. Day 2: Still in transit. Does air travel always take this long?
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Some Untidy Spot: December 2011
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A Rock, Not an Island. Thursday, December 15, 2011. I get all my life advice from pop songs. Watching SNL over the weekend, I was exposed for the first time to Robyn and this. It's a "soaringly tuneful electro-pop ballad" with Robyn "tell[ing] her boyfriend exactly how to break it off with the other woman to inflict the least emotional damage.". Wash The Dishes (."it's time you took your turn"). Stop Speeding (".it's time to obey the law"). Stand Up Straight (".it's time to see a chiropractor").
