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Archive for July, 2007

First, a picture of the newly painted beach cottage, which I finally downloaded from my camera:

I want to go back… We’ve been having perfect beach weather all week, and I’ve had to go to work. Not fair!
Okay, enough whining. While I was at the beach this time, I noticed an interesting phenomenon. Being a predominantly [...]

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Beaching in Style

I just got back from a blissful 2 and a half days at the beach. I did, of course, want it to be longer, but I only got to give myself two days off of work after working 12 days straight, and then it turned out I couldn’t leave until Sunday morning. When I was [...]

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Karate: Week 1

I attended my first full week of karate classes last week. So far, I have discovered some sad things:
1) My weak left shoulder, which still has a tendency to try to come out of socket even after the surgery, does not like shuto position, particularly when practicing the position in isometric pushing against a partner’s arm. So [...]

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Ego Inflation

I kid you not, someone today apparently got to this blog using the search string “famous people who majored in spanish.”
I expect the autograph seekers to be pounding down my door any day now.

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One of the things that made me really happy about the idea of living in Raleigh again, this time as an adult with transportation, a job, and no homework, was the opportunity to actually go to some of the American Dance Festival performances during the summer. I didn’t get organized enough to go last year, [...]

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Paper Treasure

I fear I must say goodbye to my extra spending money. I have a dreadful suspicion that I have just found the place it will all be going, if I cannot exercise some self-restraint.
See, I have this craft project I’ve been working on for a while, recovering tea tins. I had it all planned out [...]

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