Kenji reminded me of the many means of keeping in touch with my friends besides actual face-to-face contact, and urged me to join Twitter and start updating this blog again. As many of you know, life has been a whirlwind these past two months, including getting engaged, getting a job for when I graduate, buying a house and adopting a new dog. I'm completely ready for life to calm the eff down after this upcoming Saturday. I sincerely miss some of my closest friends and I yearn for the idle summer days of reading a good book or playing my DS on the beach.
In the meantimee, I have very little free time atm and want to fill the void with some kind of casual-enabled game. I downloaded Stubbs the Zombie on XBLA as well as the Puzzle Quest expansion (including a Rogue class, who I named Maddy :). Hope the dog doesn't mind). I have also been contemplating re-entering WoW, especially since its quiet right now. I've been really jonesing for some good Hunter play, and the pic I saw of the Engineer motorcycle mount makes me want to grind out some Engineering levels before WotLK hits.
Been watching a lot of TV recently too. We just worked through Jericho, which ended in a disappointing entire second seaosn, including outrageous over-the-top deaf-girl-shotgunning scenes and an abrubt change in tone and direction from the Season 1 finale. Now we started Alias, and I don't think I've ever been so impressed with a show's first episode. Alas, I hear Alias falls apart somewhere after the 4th season as well.
The dog is named Maddy, btw. She's half Norwegian Elkhound, which is an awesome breed of sled dogs and moose hunters. MOOSE HUNTERS! I had never seen one before, but when we took Maddy for her morning family coffee walk today we saw that the neighbor actually has a full breed Norwegian Elkhound right around the corner. Maddy, quite the timid little army-crawler, was not as excited as we were. I will have to take a nap with her on the couch to make it up to her :)
Hope people are still reading Vox. Look forward to some of my famous Potato Salad, soon-to-be-famous Buffalo Chicken Dip, hot dogs, burgers and beer. And please, bring anything you might want to eat/drink/do at the house. Also, pray/hope/bribe someone to prevent storms, or we'll all be huddling together in a hot house with not enough seats!
My address got a walk score of 91 out of 100.
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I should love ID Magazine, but I don't. Somehow they take design both too seriously and not seriously enough.
[Case in point: awarding "Best in Category" in their Annual Design Review to the iPhone. The judges admit that it's a predictable move bound to inspire Onion-style headlines (i.e. "iPhone Delights, Amazes Roomful of Design Types"). But they just can't help it! Apparently they think that by pointing out their own lack of originality they can make the decision seem amusing and clever...]
However, while browsing their site, I spotted this radio by Singgih Kartono and had to share.
Yesterday, I was in my local Starbucks, reading Walter Benjamin, when Mos Def walked in.
Contrary to the musings of this infamous blog, everyone in the whole place was excited -- black and white, young and old.
Take that, Brooklyn!
(Keep an eye out for that lamp -- you're going to start seeing it everywhere)
Wanted to share a helpful looking blog called Dinner Tonight. It's from Martha Stewart Food and the editors post a new recipe everyday. There are helpful tags on the side too, like "Cooking for One," which help you browse the archives.
I am going to try Chicken with Prosciutto and Sage for my first foray.
The one slightly obnoxious thing about it (besides all the Martha ads) is that each blogger ends her post with a question. As in, "What creative uses do you have for tofu?" My guess is they're trying really hard to create a community among readers... but still.
Would you like it if I ended every post with a question?
[It has the sort of lines big furniture stores are imitating, but it's an original.]
From Home Anthology in Maryland, one of my favorite vintage stores. Any takers? You can bet if I lived in the area I would make an offer.
I've become very good at convincing myself not to buy things over the past few years. I even shy away from buying those things that are quite practical and unexciting. So, today I'm going to try to get over my frugal self.
