Last Saturday, Jeff turned 27. My oldest nephew–the son of my younger sister–graduates high school next month and starts college this fall. My own 20th college reunion is next month, though I don’t plan to attend. Had I followed the pattern established by my great-grandmother, grandmother and mother, I’d have married at 19 and had […]
As Gene prepares for his upcoming trip to London, I’ve been musing about my one trip there so far, a few years ago. In the spring of 2000, I went to London and Edinburgh pretty much on a whim–I was able to take advantage of a British Airways promotion that required that you ticket within […]
Gentle Reader, following on an earlier post about strange bathroom behaviors of people at my office, I have to comment on a new disturbing trend I’ve observed over the past several months. Granted, we live in an increasingly sanitized, disinfected, antibacterialized and mysophobic society–don’t get me started on my vision that the strains of antibiotic-resistant […]
Last month I posted about the bill just passed in Virginia that would outlaw private contracts between same-sex partners that would “bestow the privileges or obligations of marriage,” a bill that many legal scholars believe would make illegal such standard contracts as wills, powers of attorney and custody agreements between same-sex partners. This weekend The […]
In his own blog, Jeff failed to mention that on Sunday he cooked for us a variation of Jacques Pepin’s Les Oeufs Jeannette, which it turns out he had first and last prepared one year ago, on Mother’s Day 2003, and on the entry for which was one of my first comments, in which I […]
As I was saying, before I sidetracked myself, Jeff already has posted about our birthday-related (his) and weekend activities, so you can go read them at his site; I’ll post only any specific comments or amplifications of my own below: Friday night (Jeff’s birthday eve): Wine tasting, gallery hopping, French dining. I also had the […]
One advantage to having a blogging boyfriend is that it often saves lazy me the trouble of having to post about shared activities, as I can just point directly to his entries, especially since for several months he’s been fufilling an admirable aim to post daily while I, on the other hand, continue to post […]
After my harrowing drive home from visiting my family this past weekend, it was looking like a nice week in the DC area, with perhaps a little rain but overall gradually warming temperatures and blue skies. Yesterday morning the forecast was for a chance of rain, but as the day wore on and the skies […]
Check out today’s Online Diary column about Dude, Check This Out (the second item covered in the column) in The New York Times. Yes, that’s me quoted therein: Thom Watson, a technology manager in Washington, is an experienced blogger who longed for a better way to keep track of notable sites. “I keep my blog […]
Since I seem to be in a ranting mood, but at the risk of tarnishing my Prius-evangelism mindset, I must confess that there is one thing about the Prius that disappoints me. It has a wildly inaccurate digital gas gauge (notoriously so, since this is a common topic of discussion on Prius listservs and among […]