It’s tough to blog without an internet connection… It’s also been stiflingly, disgustingly hot, and my pace has slowed to a crawl, punctuated by moments of just sitting and staring. I brought a bunch of photos I’d taken to work yesterday on a cd, having no other way to get them from home to work […]
Hot time in Cambridge
June 14th, 2005 · Comments Off on Hot time in Cambridge
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Quackmire!
June 9th, 2005 · Comments Off on Quackmire!
Karen’s really on a roll here – so much so that she seems to have forgotten that she’s left almost this exact message with me before. She names almost all the same names, hits almost all the same points, as she does in the message she left a day prior to this one. I almost […]
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British Invasion…again
June 8th, 2005 · Comments Off on British Invasion…again
All I have to say is “What about the B-52s?” If you’ve been following the saga of Karen Freeman’s whacked out voicemail messages, you know the Athens, Georgia rockers are Karen’s favorite members of the British Invasion. I know that doesn’t make any sense, but there you have it. She might have done her research […]
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Getting hot under the caller
June 7th, 2005 · Comments Off on Getting hot under the caller
Every time I think I’ve heard the last of Karen Freeman, she surprises me with more voicemail messages. If you haven’t heard the first five messages, you can check them out here, though pretty soon, I might have to make a new category just for her. Tim, Mari, Aimee, and I were chatting about how […]
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If it’s June, I must be moving
June 5th, 2005 · Comments Off on If it’s June, I must be moving
Another June, another boxing spree… I pulled some folded up boxes out from under my bed this week to get ready to pack everything in my room, and looked over the descriptions written on the side of one of the boxes. “BOOKS,” it said, followed by “7/99 6/01 8/02 5/04.” I crossed out the last […]
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Reservation for 4, Freeman?
June 3rd, 2005 · Comments Off on Reservation for 4, Freeman?
The Photobooth Convention was a success, and we’re still taking care of the press and public inquiries and contributions that have come about because of the event. It’s been a pretty busy week at work, but the countdown has begun: five more weeks of work before the wedding, and one more after, which means not […]
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Off to St. Louis
May 27th, 2005 · Comments Off on Off to St. Louis
It’s been a brief, busy week, and it’s hard to believe it’s already Friday. It was crunch time at work to get the calendar done and to the printers, and then I had the added task of getting it all translated to the website. I finally had a chance to put my new computer through […]
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Doves, dancers, and dogs
May 22nd, 2005 · Comments Off on Doves, dancers, and dogs
This weekend was one of our last in Boston, even though we don’t move for another two-plus months – that’s what happens when you decide to get married, move, quit your job, and go to school, all in a six-week period. Friday night, I met Josh outside Avalon for the Doves show. The last time […]
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Kittos
May 18th, 2005 · Comments Off on Kittos
Now that we’re back from Helsinki, it sort of feels like we never left, but while we were there, we had a busy, fun time, filled with academic pomp, excellent meals, and sightseeing. My Flickr photoset tells the story best – my “suit in the morning, tux at night” day, the striking architecture, and the […]
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First frappe of the season
May 17th, 2005 · Comments Off on First frappe of the season
Sometimes I love the way my mind works: this morning, our parent institution had an all-staff meeting, the kind we rarely get asked to attend, thankfully. Stunned as I was by the unending flow of jargon that was coming from the person leading the meeting, I was going in and out of actually paying attention. […]
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Into Finnair
May 16th, 2005 · Comments Off on Into Finnair
Check out the photos from Finland; more later.
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All the way from Ottawa
May 11th, 2005 · Comments Off on All the way from Ottawa
Aimee and I caught Kathleen Edwards at the Paradise last night, and she put on another great show. We’d seen her there once before, with a significantly smaller audience, after the release of her first album a few years back. This time around, the place was pretty packed (though still no Paradise Guy; I think […]
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Find a red dot, this one’s taken
May 7th, 2005 · Comments Off on Find a red dot, this one’s taken
The last time we went to my friend Mark’s opening, we liked what we saw, and so did a lot of other people. One of those people liked the painting we liked a little more, or a little more quickly, than we did. By the time I told Mark we’d buy it, it had been […]
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Where am I?
May 4th, 2005 · Comments Off on Where am I?
On my way to hang out with Josh at the CBC, I stopped at the Century Bank ATM next to Tommy Doyle’s, and was greeted with not only spoken instructions for using the ATM, but instructions spoken with an English accent, maybe even almost Scottish. Very strange. Please Enter Your Secret Number(86 kb mp3, 0:14)
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Island Weekend
May 2nd, 2005 · Comments Off on Island Weekend
The island of Nantucket was our destination this weekend, and we headed to the Cape early Saturday morning to catch the Hy-Line high-speed ferry from Hyannis. The ride was uneventful and quick, just about an hour, and we were met at the dock in Nantucket by Aimee’s friend Meeghan, her husband Sean, and other members […]
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