Posted in North Carolina, Travel on July 28, 2007 | 2 Comments »
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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Posted in Travel on July 25, 2007 | 3 Comments »
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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Posted in Karate on July 10, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
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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Posted in Meta-blogging on July 6, 2007 | 3 Comments »
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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Posted in Life on July 5, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
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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Posted in Crafts on July 2, 2007 | 1 Comment »
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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