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Thursday, August 3rd, 2006 Tomorrow I will attend my first Yankees game. It will probably be nice and hot. And extremely unexciting. Because it’s baseball.But what is the opposite of unexciting around here? The lightning storms.
At home, when lightning strikes, it is usually just ignored and accepted as a passing storm. No one bothers to give it any [...]
I’m melting
Wednesday, August 2nd, 2006 It’s going to top out at about 116 degrees (47 degrees celsius) today, with no hope of rain or air conditioning. It’s so hot, that they cancelled “lacrosse” and “soccer” and instead are having “pool” and “sprinkler.”
Because of the extreme heat, everything has become so au natural that I feel as if we’re living [...]
Ocean City
Monday, July 31st, 2006I was a mess before our trip to Ocean City, Maryland. Usually before a trip, I’m driving myself crazy making sure we have a place to stay and at least a rough budget worked out. The four boys I went with decided to put me to the test and not let me plan anything. [...]
New York Recap
Monday, July 31st, 2006New York City was my first traveling experience while at camp and still may be considered my favorite.
We went the night of the 4th of July and made it to the city in less than three hours. I was the most excited I’ve ever been, to finally be traveling someplace in a different part of [...]
Not-so-Sunday drive
Friday, July 28th, 2006You know those moments, where as you’re living them you’re absolutely certain that you’ll look back and laugh at them later as they’re being described to wide-eyed friends, even though if anyone dares laugh at the seriousness of the situation as it’s occurring you will promptly stab them with a ring of keys? I had [...]
Slideshow: Pittsburgh
Friday, July 28th, 2006Click here or below for the slideshow:
Washington, D.C.
Thursday, July 20th, 2006 Washington was incredible, as I knew it would be. Twelve of us drove to the city last Friday night (five in my car, seven in a van) and arrived at our hotel within three hours.
And the hotel! It was amazing. Guy, the boy from England who I often travel with and one of my [...]
Shopping
Tuesday, July 11th, 2006 I hate shopping. I’ve never liked trying on clothes. My favorite jeans are well over four years old now, and there are several pairs which have rarely seen the light of day.
Yesterday though, I shopped like I never shopped (or wanted to shop) before. For me, that doesn’t mean spending an absurd amount of [...]
After the city
Thursday, July 6th, 2006 The city was absolutely incredible. The people I went with were amazing.
We didn’t actually pull up until about 10:00 at night. While we had originally planned to stay in a very cheap motel outside of the city, one of the boys I’d gone with, who works at a Marriott in England, got an unfathomable [...]
Up and away
Tuesday, July 4th, 2006 It’s the kind of thing that my teachers talk about doing, that my aunts and uncles did when they were my age and poor and in need of getting away from my grandparents, that they show in movies and on sitcoms but that few people actually have the time and means for.
I love to [...]
Ain’t no mountain biker
Tuesday, June 27th, 2006This week’s weather conditions have been less than ideal. It hasn’t stopped raining for the last four days.
Actually, that’s a lie. Occasionally, and lasting for less than three minutes, the black storm clouds will grab lunch and the sun will make a small and extremely hot appearance to hold down the sky. You know how [...]
“Inadvertently Bonding with a Carload of International Coworkers on a Friday Night in a Series of Unknown Location” : A play in five insubstantial acts
Sunday, June 25th, 2006 List of Characters
Hannah : the sensible Scottish* girl
Martin : the curious German* kid
Dom : the outgoing English* boy
Rachel : the apprehensive white girl
Meg : the dreadlock-haired Australian* hippie
Store owner
Cop
*Accents to be exaggerated accordingly.
Act I: 9:00pm, Chesapeake City
Meg: (driving car) “Dude, we need to find someplace to go.”
Hannah: (pointing) “Is that a random disco [...]
More than I figured
Thursday, June 22nd, 2006 I am alive and I am well. I will say that I completely underestimated this job. I continue to think of things to write about, and continue to write about them, but having to share five computers with 500 staff has not allowed for generous online time.
The bay is absolutely incredible. At times, when [...]
It begins
Friday, June 9th, 2006I’m leaving late tomorrow night (early Sunday morning?) for the rest of the summer. Even though the reality of moving to another state (and far, far away from the city) to pursue a job hasn’t quite hit me yet, there are so many questions running through my head that I’m almost positive I won’t get [...]
The luckiest weekend ever
Tuesday, May 23rd, 2006 This weekend was quite possibly the luckiest weekend I’ve ever had. Dan and I escaped to Cedar Point. It’s the “roller coaster capital of the world.”
The ride there wasn’t all too bad. One thing I learned: Ohio definitely has much better rest stops than Pennsylvania. I’m not a big fan stopping during road trips, [...]
Summer calls for it
Monday, May 1st, 2006 Today I bought all of my girls italian ice because they did so well in their game last Friday. This leads me to believe that I’m going to severely spoil my children. Especially if they’re as cool as these girls.
Who’s sick of me talking about coaching? I am! I am!!
I think that the single [...]
Writing about not writing
Thursday, March 23rd, 2006 Is it just me, or does it seem like there are certain times of the year when bloggers blog less than usual? Perhaps they’re busy, or perhaps this is just an uninteresting time of year. Winter has yet to end up here, and I haven’t seen the sun since my last post (weeks ago).
I’ve [...]
The Five People you Meet on Airplanes
Monday, August 8th, 2005Over the past two days, I’ve set foot in Arizona, Los Angeles, El Segundo, Dallas, and Charlotte. If only traveling weren’t so expensive, I would glady fly to several random cities on any given weekend, as long as I could spend more than two hours in each.One thing I noticed in El Segundo was [...]
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