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the_dala at 09:09pm on 04/07/2006
the_dala at 09:09pm on 04/07/2006Finally done going through the flist, now with...::counts:: 19 tabs to further peruse.
This time the absence was due to several factors, starting with me being thoroughly bummed out for, shall we say, personal reasons. Then on Thursday Anne's boyfriend flew in from Chicago and we went to pick him up at BWI. At 2:30 in the morning. Wait, let me clarify: we left campus at 7:30 PM, his flight was delayed, we went to Friendlys and read magazines in 7-11 for an hour and slept in the airport parking lot for three hours and then picked Dustin up, and then got back at 4:00 AM, and then got up at 7 for work. Yeah, that'll put anybody out for a few days. And I've been sleeping in Maria's extra bed, so that cuts down significantly on the Sir Christopher time.
Friday was interesting, though -- we had a field trip to Annapolis and bonded on the nasty school vans. I'm not terribly interested in urban archaeology, so the city sites were a bit of a bore, but then we went to the Eastern Shore to visit the Wye House for a personal tour with the current descendent, which was so cool. SO. COOL. It was like a museum, with French porcelain figurines and antique rifles and claw-footed sofas and original 18th century paintings by the official Royal Navy portraitists and A LIBRARY WITH SEVENTEENTH CENTURY VOLUMES, FLOOR TO CEILING, only with no ropes or plastic protectors and with people actually living there. And the site was this brick foundation with a freaking tree sitting in the middle of it (hellooo shade), and we were violently jealous. I also sat with Ian on the van ride home and managed to make ordinary conversation, which I consider to be a personal victory.
The river concert did John Phillips Sousa and then played the 1812 Overture over the fireworks across the river, which was a great show. We bought glow necklaces and enjoyed the wee children running around. Sunday Tim let us go early, probably because of the whole heat advisory warning thing and 'cause Gina accidentally dropped a screen on Maria's hand and her fingers got all sliced up. Yeah, it was scary. I went home to do laundry, bringing Maria with me, and we watched TV with Tina and La Fern. Yesterday we celebrated Fourth of July Eve with a cookout at Point Lookout (Tina came down!), where I was EATEN ALIVE. I swear to god, mosquitos have officially supplanted pigeons as my least favorite being on this earth. There's one bite on the side of my stomach with, I exaggerate not, over an inch of red swollenness. I think it might be a spider bite. It bloody hurts. The bugs were significantly fewer at Church Point, but that may have been due to all the ground fireworks we set off. Okay, so I didn't actually light any myself, but I ooo'd and ahhh'd real good, and I held a sparkler.
Today we went to see "Superman Returns." which was terrific, and I'll probably have more words about it later, but the battery's about to die and "Veronica Mars" is on.
This time the absence was due to several factors, starting with me being thoroughly bummed out for, shall we say, personal reasons. Then on Thursday Anne's boyfriend flew in from Chicago and we went to pick him up at BWI. At 2:30 in the morning. Wait, let me clarify: we left campus at 7:30 PM, his flight was delayed, we went to Friendlys and read magazines in 7-11 for an hour and slept in the airport parking lot for three hours and then picked Dustin up, and then got back at 4:00 AM, and then got up at 7 for work. Yeah, that'll put anybody out for a few days. And I've been sleeping in Maria's extra bed, so that cuts down significantly on the Sir Christopher time.
Friday was interesting, though -- we had a field trip to Annapolis and bonded on the nasty school vans. I'm not terribly interested in urban archaeology, so the city sites were a bit of a bore, but then we went to the Eastern Shore to visit the Wye House for a personal tour with the current descendent, which was so cool. SO. COOL. It was like a museum, with French porcelain figurines and antique rifles and claw-footed sofas and original 18th century paintings by the official Royal Navy portraitists and A LIBRARY WITH SEVENTEENTH CENTURY VOLUMES, FLOOR TO CEILING, only with no ropes or plastic protectors and with people actually living there. And the site was this brick foundation with a freaking tree sitting in the middle of it (hellooo shade), and we were violently jealous. I also sat with Ian on the van ride home and managed to make ordinary conversation, which I consider to be a personal victory.
The river concert did John Phillips Sousa and then played the 1812 Overture over the fireworks across the river, which was a great show. We bought glow necklaces and enjoyed the wee children running around. Sunday Tim let us go early, probably because of the whole heat advisory warning thing and 'cause Gina accidentally dropped a screen on Maria's hand and her fingers got all sliced up. Yeah, it was scary. I went home to do laundry, bringing Maria with me, and we watched TV with Tina and La Fern. Yesterday we celebrated Fourth of July Eve with a cookout at Point Lookout (Tina came down!), where I was EATEN ALIVE. I swear to god, mosquitos have officially supplanted pigeons as my least favorite being on this earth. There's one bite on the side of my stomach with, I exaggerate not, over an inch of red swollenness. I think it might be a spider bite. It bloody hurts. The bugs were significantly fewer at Church Point, but that may have been due to all the ground fireworks we set off. Okay, so I didn't actually light any myself, but I ooo'd and ahhh'd real good, and I held a sparkler.
Today we went to see "Superman Returns." which was terrific, and I'll probably have more words about it later, but the battery's about to die and "Veronica Mars" is on.
lazy