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One of my favorite pictures from New York
And my favorite picture from MoMA.
(the new room they have the waterlilies in is such a huge improvement I can’t even believe it)
archive for June of 2007
Traveling makes me tired!
I’m sorry I haven’t been keeping you abreast of things. My brother got successfully married. We had fun. I’ve told my proximate friends a million stories. I haven’t the energy to tell them again here. We went to New York this weekend and just got back. Again, I don’t have the energy to tell the stories, and again, they are many. When I get all the pictures online I will try to put explanatory text on them. You look at the pictures, right?
Jasper is fine. I left him alone this weekend (except for a visit from Alan that I’m pretty sure happened on Sunday because he brought in my paper and moved my flowerpot and turned off the faucet I’d left dripping) and when I got home—and up to about five minutes ago—he freaked the hell out. But he’s fine.
Here, for the time being, is a list of states visited by me (on the ground only; flyovers don’t count, but layovers and train stops do) solely in the month of June. States where I will have slept are in bold.
Virginia
Arizona
California
Nevada
North Carolina
Virginia
District of Columbia
Maryland
Delaware
New Jersey
New York
New Jersey
Delaware
Maryland
District of Columbia
Virginia
North Carolina
There’s a wedding tomorrow.
Zero days, six hours, nine minutes, fifty-one seconds. This widget has been counting down for a while now. I believe there’s a screenshot of it from several weeks ago on the blog someplace. I’ll leave finding that as an exercise for the reader.
I have the flu, have had since shortly after arriving in California on Tuesday, and I feel like death warmed over most of the time. Once the Theraflu kicks in, and I fall asleep, I’m good. I wake up, I take more Theraflu, and I fall asleep again. I haven’t slept less than twelve hours a night since I got here. Tonight will be less, because I have to be up and around in time to meet Lisa and the other bridesmaids at the salon at 11.
During the day, I take Dayquil, but the times between the Theraflu wearing off and the Dayquil kicking in are bad, bad times indeed. I’m supplementing my diet with Zicam rapid-melts (“shortens the duration”), but I’m not sure it’s making a difference. I’m also taking an Allegra-D every day, because I am a decongestant racist. I firmly believe that the dextromethorphan in Dayquil doesn’t work, and that the phenylephrine in Theraflu doesn’t work, and that the pseudoephedrine in Allegra-D does work. Bless two-years-ago me for laying in a supply of a prescription decongestant.
We had the rehearsal today. I’m only about sixty-seven percent confident of my ability to do things properly. I’m the first one down the aisle, you see, and I’m not completely clear on where to stand. It’s also going to be dastardly hot.
The rehearsal dinner was delicious, with good service and nice table karma. Everyone in the wedding (I’d only met the best man, the maid of honor, and one of the groomsmen before this week) seems just positively lovely and delightful. Lisa’s family are all lovely and delightful. My parents’ friends (including Nicole and Michele’s parents, who I can’t believe came) are lovely and delightful.
It is exhausting.
The best thing I did today was to spend an hour in the pool and whirlpool after dinner. I had the whole place completely to myself, and it was great. For a while I felt like I wasn’t sick, I never had been sick, and the world was quiet and wet and soft and light.
Across time and dimension
torchesforghosts posted a photo:
Today’s funniest thing
Herewith, an IM log.
Elaine, 10:41
I AM going to leave you and go watch tv on the sofa, though
Bill, 10:43
sniff
Elaine, 11:31
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Bill, 11:32
hi jasper
Elaine, 11:32
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11:32
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11:58
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11:58
holy god I’m so sorry
11:58
excuse me while I laugh my ass off at the cat IMing you
Photo page = 100% up to date
I’ve been taking a lot of pictures lately. You may wish to peruse them.
Memorial Day weekend, for instance, Lisa and I went to the beach. You can see pictures of that.
Last week, I got a kitten. There are pictures of him. On this page, you can even see a video of his shenanigans.
Thursday night, we went and saw Huey Lewis and the News in concert at Wolf Trap. Delight in the blur.
Should you choose not to peruse the pictures now, you are setting yourself up to be BEHIND very soon. For in only nine days, I leave for a week in California. Two days after I get back, I’m borrowing Deborah’s SLR, and that will cause the pictures you see posted to improve in quality in time for our trip to New York, which starts three days later. Five days after my return from New York, I (and the SLR, still) will be leaving for a week in the Outer Banks, and there will surely be photographs taken there.
July is slightly more hazy. There’s more coming in August, though. Josie’s turning four. The COF-a-Que comes around again, featuring the new team name, “Grill on Grill Action.” My very favorite movie is being played on the Mall. And Lin wants to go back to the beach—again.
I also hear there’s supposed to be a wedding in Philadelphia in early September.
Message from Jasper
The cat has a name. Also, he would like to be where my hands are. To wit:
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