Halloween Festivities
After last night's unexciting and generally boring Duke Law Halloween Party (which, sadly, is labeled "The Best Duke Law Party of the Year), we are headed out tonight to Chapel Hill, which is apparently one of the best Halloween experiences this side of New Orleans/Transylvania University.
"They" expect that 75,000 people will descend on Chapel Hill tonight. For those of you who have been there, you know how amazing that is given the size of Franklin St. Sarah has to go for work, she's dressing up as Rosie the Riveter and handing out condoms and info about the EC line. I'm not dressing up, but I think they are going to tape condoms to me. I hope the condoms are still in the wrappers. I'd better go check on that...
Maggie Update
Maggie has gained about 2-3 pounds since we got her three weeks ago. The vet says that she will double in size from 4 to 6 months, so we're guessing that she will be about 15-20 pounds.
She's growing really fast, and we're trying to break her of her puppy habits, though largely unsuccessfully. She still likes to nip at hands and feet, which terrifies children at the park. She also likes to chew the ends of shoelaces until the plastic part is no more. Recently she learned that she could jump off of the couch, which has ruined one of our techniques for keeping tabs on her when we're in the kitchen, etc. Does anybody have a baby-gate they don't need anymore???
Friday, October 31, 2003
Wednesday, October 29, 2003
Best. Homestarrunner. Ever.
I know almost no one appreciates homestarrunner.com as much as I do. But the Halloween cartoon this year is hilarious. I especially like The Cheat as the 1996 Olympics Mascot, Izzy.
I know almost no one appreciates homestarrunner.com as much as I do. But the Halloween cartoon this year is hilarious. I especially like The Cheat as the 1996 Olympics Mascot, Izzy.
Monday, October 27, 2003
Cars Are Funny
You may recall that about 8 months ago, I had to get a wheel-rim replaced on the Corolla because I ran into a curb while driving after an ice-storm. It sucked and it ended up costing about 150 bucks after the new rim and the alignment, etc. All in all, not too bad an experience, though I could have done without it.
Well, in a stroke of genius, I managed to bend another wheel rim, this time while driving in seventy-degree weather. This time, unlike last time, the tire went flat and I thought I had really screwed the rim up bad. It more or less put a damper on our weekend because we had to wait until today to go get it fixed and we had plans to go driving in the mountains to see the leaves change. This morning, really frickin' early, I went to Firestone, where I had it fixed last time. This time, they looked at it, took it back and beat it with a hammer and checked the balance, and then they handed it back to me. Charge: 12 bucks. I don't really know how this time is different from last, but it was, so I'm not complaining.
You may recall that about 8 months ago, I had to get a wheel-rim replaced on the Corolla because I ran into a curb while driving after an ice-storm. It sucked and it ended up costing about 150 bucks after the new rim and the alignment, etc. All in all, not too bad an experience, though I could have done without it.
Well, in a stroke of genius, I managed to bend another wheel rim, this time while driving in seventy-degree weather. This time, unlike last time, the tire went flat and I thought I had really screwed the rim up bad. It more or less put a damper on our weekend because we had to wait until today to go get it fixed and we had plans to go driving in the mountains to see the leaves change. This morning, really frickin' early, I went to Firestone, where I had it fixed last time. This time, they looked at it, took it back and beat it with a hammer and checked the balance, and then they handed it back to me. Charge: 12 bucks. I don't really know how this time is different from last, but it was, so I'm not complaining.
Friday, October 17, 2003
I Didn't Believe in Curses, Until Last Night
Poor Red Sox. Poor Sox Fans.
Poor Cubs. Poor Cubs Fans.
Poor rest of the world not in New York or Florida, who once again will not get to watch a good World Series. Think about it, the last Four World Series have been awful.
2000, The Subway Series--Not a single person outside of New York cared, especially since everyone knew that the Yankees were going to kill the Mets.
2001, Yankees-Diamondbacks-- A couple of good games, and it was nice to see the Yankees finally go down, but were you watching?
2002, Angels-Giants--Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz...what's the time difference between here and Caleeforneah?
2003, Marlins-Yankees--Team that no one's ever heard of vs. team that no one wants to hear about again. The two teams that nobody wanted to win end up in the Series. Somebody tell me who wins. (Can MLB get a losers bracket so we can see who wins the more interesting match-up?)
At any rate, I don't plan on this becoming a sports blog, but I've been watching a lot of sports on my week off, including repeats of the World Series of Poker. We also got a DVR from the cable company. It's not quite TiVo, but it works for us.
Maggie is doing well. She had her first vet visit with us. We took her to the clinic where her foster mother works. She was very brave, and barked at dogs at least 12 times her size. She's currently snoring in my lap.
Sarah is enjoying her job, especially the fact that the staff at PPCNC is mostly female. The office seems happy to have her, as well.
Sarah has uploaded pictures of Maggie and of the Holland parents' visit, which we'll send around to interested parties soon.
Poor Red Sox. Poor Sox Fans.
Poor Cubs. Poor Cubs Fans.
Poor rest of the world not in New York or Florida, who once again will not get to watch a good World Series. Think about it, the last Four World Series have been awful.
2000, The Subway Series--Not a single person outside of New York cared, especially since everyone knew that the Yankees were going to kill the Mets.
2001, Yankees-Diamondbacks-- A couple of good games, and it was nice to see the Yankees finally go down, but were you watching?
2002, Angels-Giants--Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz...what's the time difference between here and Caleeforneah?
2003, Marlins-Yankees--Team that no one's ever heard of vs. team that no one wants to hear about again. The two teams that nobody wanted to win end up in the Series. Somebody tell me who wins. (Can MLB get a losers bracket so we can see who wins the more interesting match-up?)
At any rate, I don't plan on this becoming a sports blog, but I've been watching a lot of sports on my week off, including repeats of the World Series of Poker. We also got a DVR from the cable company. It's not quite TiVo, but it works for us.
Maggie is doing well. She had her first vet visit with us. We took her to the clinic where her foster mother works. She was very brave, and barked at dogs at least 12 times her size. She's currently snoring in my lap.
Sarah is enjoying her job, especially the fact that the staff at PPCNC is mostly female. The office seems happy to have her, as well.
Sarah has uploaded pictures of Maggie and of the Holland parents' visit, which we'll send around to interested parties soon.
Wednesday, October 08, 2003
Explain This to Me
I know I usually don't complain about this stuff on the blog, but can someone explain to me why Georgia v. Tennessee, the #10 and #14 teams respectively are relegated to ESPN 2 while Notre Dame (unranked) vs. Pittsburgh (#16) gets put on the main network? Anti-SEC bias I tell you.
I know I usually don't complain about this stuff on the blog, but can someone explain to me why Georgia v. Tennessee, the #10 and #14 teams respectively are relegated to ESPN 2 while Notre Dame (unranked) vs. Pittsburgh (#16) gets put on the main network? Anti-SEC bias I tell you.
Tuesday, October 07, 2003
Maggie
Yes, it's true, we have a dog. Unfortunately what we also have is an unreasonable transfer restriction on our Geocities account, which will probably cause more than half of our faithful readers to not be able to accessthese pictures of her first day in our new apartment. Please bear with us, as well will put together an Ofoto scapbook and send it out as soon as we can access the high-speed connection at Duke.
Meanwhile, you could always watch this.
Yes, it's true, we have a dog. Unfortunately what we also have is an unreasonable transfer restriction on our Geocities account, which will probably cause more than half of our faithful readers to not be able to accessthese pictures of her first day in our new apartment. Please bear with us, as well will put together an Ofoto scapbook and send it out as soon as we can access the high-speed connection at Duke.
Meanwhile, you could always watch this.
Sunday, October 05, 2003
J-O-B=D-O-G
Since this summer, the deal with Nicholas has been I have to get a job before we can get a dog. So two days after becoming the newest employee at Planned Parenthood we are now the proud parents of a small terrier puppy named Maggie.
It was fate. We have been looking at shelters for a while. I was becoming discouraged because we couldn't find a smaller dog like we wanted. Last night, I had started looking into buying one and was going to start calling today. However, we were in Chapel Hill showing a visiting friend when Nicholas suggested going by the shelter. Right inside the door, they have cages for featured pets, usually cats. As we walked in a woman was closing the cage door for a little puppy. Turns out it was Maggie's foster mom who had just dropped her off so people could look at for a little while. We were the first ones to see and of course adopted her immediately. We get to pick her up tomorrow so we spent the rest of today stocking up on puppy supplies and doing our research on house training.
And yes for all those who are wondering...she is the cutest puppy EVER!
Since this summer, the deal with Nicholas has been I have to get a job before we can get a dog. So two days after becoming the newest employee at Planned Parenthood we are now the proud parents of a small terrier puppy named Maggie.
It was fate. We have been looking at shelters for a while. I was becoming discouraged because we couldn't find a smaller dog like we wanted. Last night, I had started looking into buying one and was going to start calling today. However, we were in Chapel Hill showing a visiting friend when Nicholas suggested going by the shelter. Right inside the door, they have cages for featured pets, usually cats. As we walked in a woman was closing the cage door for a little puppy. Turns out it was Maggie's foster mom who had just dropped her off so people could look at for a little while. We were the first ones to see and of course adopted her immediately. We get to pick her up tomorrow so we spent the rest of today stocking up on puppy supplies and doing our research on house training.
And yes for all those who are wondering...she is the cutest puppy EVER!
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