I’m just back from Vancouver, where I and a couple of friends spent the weekend for the wedding of a mutual friend of ours. Among the highlights of our visit: hiking five miles around the periphery of Stanley Park, watching fireworks over the English Bay, admiring the sealife at the Vancouver Aquarium, and hanging out […]
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I’m heading off to Baltimore this afternoon, and I have a zillion last-minute cleaning tasks to take care of, so you’re all spared a lengthy post. I may post a bit between now and the end of the move to Philly, but the blog will most likely be fairly quiet. I’ll be back around the […]
And after this I will post about something other than the minutiae of moving, I promise. On to the Bullets of Random Crap (TM): I officially have an apartment in Philadelphia! The lease starts in mid-August. It’s quite small, but prettier than all the others I looked at, in a nice converted townhouse in a […]
Via Clancy, a “pet peeves” meme. And since an airing of one’s pet peeves is always therapeutic on a hot day in the dead of summer, I’m passing it along. 1. Grammatical pet peeve: I don’t have all that many of them, but “flaunt”/”flout” misuse bugs me. 2. Household pet peeve: People who don’t remove […]
I’m taking a break from packing and paper-sorting to say: I forget where I read that, when moving, one should always pack an "unpack me first" box, but it’s a brilliant piece of advice. Because I can already tell that when I finally move into the new apartment in mid-August, I’m going to be so […]
I’m back from a whirlwind apartment search in Philadelphia, which can best be summarized by "Ow. My feet hurt." Or "You call that a one-bedroom?!" Or "Damn, that’s some ugly carpet." Or, with a nod to Robert Browning, "Ah, but a man’s reach should exceed his grasp, / Or what’s a heaven for?"* But eventually: […]
My last day at work isn’t till next week, but yesterday I worked my last couple of reference desk shifts. At the end of the last one, a visiting student came to the desk with a question about a checked-out book she wanted to consult. She wasn’t going to have time to recall it, and […]
Oh, no. Lorraine Hunt Lieberson has died. There are no words; go listen to her here or here instead.
How on earth did people manage to move to new cities before the internet? Somehow, of course, they did. But, as is the case with a lot of other things that are much easier with access to e-mail and the web, it’s hard to imagine. At any rate, one of the perks of moving to […]
In just over three (gulp!) weeks, I’m moving out of my apartment and putting my things into storage. Then there’ll be some much-needed downtime with my family in Baltimore before I move to Philadelphia, with a long weekend trip to Vancouver for a friend’s wedding at the end of July. In between, I have to […]