The Past Couple Weeks
A quick update:
Sarah is absolutely loving her job.
Maggie was spayed, micro-chipped, and received her first rabies shot. I think the experience was more stressful for us than it was for her. She also chipped a canine tooth, which required another trip to the vet. The vet says her tooth is fine (she's going to lose it anyway), and since she was Maggie's foster mother, there was no charge for the visit. She will be traveling with us to Atlanta over the break. The parents have graciously allowed us to give this a try, so we'll see how Maggie deals with the scent of cat in the air.
School is going along quickly. I'm rapidly approaching the "oh-shit-it's-exam time already" stage. Though I don't think I'll be in any way laid back this time around, having a job already for next year certainly takes the pressure off.
In the future:
Sarah is traveling to Lexington this weekend to throw a baby shower for her friend Elizabeth, who is expecting in January. I will be remaining at home to study and spend some quality time with my favorite dog. I hope Maggie has some insights into the Earned Income Tax Credit that she could share with me.
Thursday, November 13, 2003
Monday, November 03, 2003
Friday, October 31, 2003
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???
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???
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!
Thursday, October 02, 2003
Tuesday, September 30, 2003
Friday, September 26, 2003
Friday
I promise at some point I will get Sarah to blog again, but I'm not guaranteeing that it will be soon. Until then, you're going to have to put up with me.
Sarah has two (count 'em two) job interviews today. One is with a temp. service and the other for her current dream job, which is as an administrative assistant at a non-profit organization headquartered in Chapel Hill. It looks like she'll be gainfully employed soon at one of these, but there's no telling. Everyone keep their fingers crossed for her.
Annie and Kyle are visiting us from the DC area this weekend. This has given Sarah a reason to use the china again, which gives her more joy than it should give anyone. I guess it's better than just letting it sit in the cabinet like it does now--though that way it never gets dirty. This looks to be the first of a string of weekends where we have visitors. I think we have people "booked" through October 17.
BTW, does anyone else think that Osten should have been kicked off of Survivor last night? I mean, Ryan S. sucked a lot (okay, a whole lot), but Osten didn't even act like he wanted to be there (which, by the way, would really piss me off if I were the last survivor candidate to get kicked out in favor of Osten).
Sarah and I have wondered aloud out at why these people don't sleep during the day. It's not like they really have that much to do and if they're not sleeping at night anyway...I don't get it.
Also, what's with having to see Lady Scoutmaster Lillian in her underwear last night? Feh. (BTW, Lady Scoutmaster reminds me of that Prince song "Lady Cabdriver" from the 1999 album.)
I promise at some point I will get Sarah to blog again, but I'm not guaranteeing that it will be soon. Until then, you're going to have to put up with me.
Sarah has two (count 'em two) job interviews today. One is with a temp. service and the other for her current dream job, which is as an administrative assistant at a non-profit organization headquartered in Chapel Hill. It looks like she'll be gainfully employed soon at one of these, but there's no telling. Everyone keep their fingers crossed for her.
Annie and Kyle are visiting us from the DC area this weekend. This has given Sarah a reason to use the china again, which gives her more joy than it should give anyone. I guess it's better than just letting it sit in the cabinet like it does now--though that way it never gets dirty. This looks to be the first of a string of weekends where we have visitors. I think we have people "booked" through October 17.
BTW, does anyone else think that Osten should have been kicked off of Survivor last night? I mean, Ryan S. sucked a lot (okay, a whole lot), but Osten didn't even act like he wanted to be there (which, by the way, would really piss me off if I were the last survivor candidate to get kicked out in favor of Osten).
Sarah and I have wondered aloud out at why these people don't sleep during the day. It's not like they really have that much to do and if they're not sleeping at night anyway...I don't get it.
Also, what's with having to see Lady Scoutmaster Lillian in her underwear last night? Feh. (BTW, Lady Scoutmaster reminds me of that Prince song "Lady Cabdriver" from the 1999 album.)
Monday, September 22, 2003
Well, having survived the first hurricane of our marriage, we thought that we had made it without a power outage. Apparently not, though, because the power went out for a couple of hours on Saturday for no apparent reason. I think this usually happens when they start reconnecting everyone's power and they have big power surges when everyone's toaster/oven/TV/vcr/iron/lamps all turn back on at once and they overload some transformer somewhere. Ah well, it could've been worse.
In other news, with the final addition of slip-covers for the couch and love seat and a few pillows, I think we have also weathered our first home-decoration. Although I kicked and screamed the whole way about the necessity of certain items, I'm a cheap bastard and the apartment really does look good, especially for our budget. Of course, we couldn't have done it without the generosity of all of you at our wedding, so we thank you as well. Now we get to do it all over again in 9 months in DC, although I've been promised that much of what we have now, we can use later.
Also, does anyone know a high school student that might want to apply to Transy? Sarah and I received an application with a fee waiver to give to the high school student of our choice. Unfortunately, we don't know any anymore. Do you?
In other news, with the final addition of slip-covers for the couch and love seat and a few pillows, I think we have also weathered our first home-decoration. Although I kicked and screamed the whole way about the necessity of certain items, I'm a cheap bastard and the apartment really does look good, especially for our budget. Of course, we couldn't have done it without the generosity of all of you at our wedding, so we thank you as well. Now we get to do it all over again in 9 months in DC, although I've been promised that much of what we have now, we can use later.
Also, does anyone know a high school student that might want to apply to Transy? Sarah and I received an application with a fee waiver to give to the high school student of our choice. Unfortunately, we don't know any anymore. Do you?
Friday, September 19, 2003
Hurricane Isabel
Well, chalk it up to karma from the ice-storm, but we didn't even lose power last night, except for a couple of 5 second outages. The winds were high and the rain was plentiful, but we're fine.
It appears that much of Durham, including most of my classmates, lost power and have not had it restored yet. I haven't seen many crews around my area, but my guess is that most people should have power by tomorrow night--but what do I know?
More later.
Well, chalk it up to karma from the ice-storm, but we didn't even lose power last night, except for a couple of 5 second outages. The winds were high and the rain was plentiful, but we're fine.
It appears that much of Durham, including most of my classmates, lost power and have not had it restored yet. I haven't seen many crews around my area, but my guess is that most people should have power by tomorrow night--but what do I know?
More later.
Tuesday, September 16, 2003
The Day-to-Day
Well, Durham gets more the same all the time. Not much has happened since the last entry, but I guess that's good.
We've got this hurricane coming our way, which should make for even more crappy weather as the week continues, as well as possible power outages and other massive inconveniences. After living through an ice storm with no power for a week, I can honestly say that I think that losing power this time won't be as bad because of the mild weather. This winter was honestly the crappiest unintended cold-weather campout of all time. Nevertheless, losing power is still not something I welcome anytime.
Sarah had a "group" job interview today, which she described as "new agey." It consisted of some asinine individual questionnaire, followed by a group portion. She's supposed to hear back about that soon. She's also looking into leads at a non-profit in Durham and Lexis-Nexis. Anyone have a job they can offer her??? I have started a research assistant job at the school which requires that I transcribe jury deliberations. It is easily the most demanding thing I have ever done patience wise. It requires almost no skill, yet takes FOREVER.
Well, enough bitching. Almost everything is good here. I saw Freddy vs. Jason last night, which was surprisingly decent even though I was certain it was going to be about a lawsuit for copyright or trade dress infringement and it ended up being a horror movie (actually I guess that would be Freddy v. Jason). Moreover, I saw Duke football win a game against Rice University in overtime n Saturday, which was even more horrific. Who could ask for anything more?
Well, Durham gets more the same all the time. Not much has happened since the last entry, but I guess that's good.
We've got this hurricane coming our way, which should make for even more crappy weather as the week continues, as well as possible power outages and other massive inconveniences. After living through an ice storm with no power for a week, I can honestly say that I think that losing power this time won't be as bad because of the mild weather. This winter was honestly the crappiest unintended cold-weather campout of all time. Nevertheless, losing power is still not something I welcome anytime.
Sarah had a "group" job interview today, which she described as "new agey." It consisted of some asinine individual questionnaire, followed by a group portion. She's supposed to hear back about that soon. She's also looking into leads at a non-profit in Durham and Lexis-Nexis. Anyone have a job they can offer her??? I have started a research assistant job at the school which requires that I transcribe jury deliberations. It is easily the most demanding thing I have ever done patience wise. It requires almost no skill, yet takes FOREVER.
Well, enough bitching. Almost everything is good here. I saw Freddy vs. Jason last night, which was surprisingly decent even though I was certain it was going to be about a lawsuit for copyright or trade dress infringement and it ended up being a horror movie (actually I guess that would be Freddy v. Jason). Moreover, I saw Duke football win a game against Rice University in overtime n Saturday, which was even more horrific. Who could ask for anything more?
Sunday, September 07, 2003
Back to School, Back To School
After returning from our honeymoon, which was fantastic, we have settled in Durham quite nicely. I have started school and Sarah has been in the midst of her job search for the last two weeks. We think she may be close to getting a job she'll like at a non-profit, so everyone keep their fingers crossed.
School is school, but it's even harder to get motivated because I recently received and accepted an offer for permanent employment from the firm that I worked at this summer. This was really great news and finally solidifies that we'll be in Washington, D.C. for the foreseeable future- as long as I pass the Bar Exam that is.
Josh Davis lives in Chapel Hill, so we went to lunch with him this weekend and got caught up on the Decatur happenings. We also saw The Magdalene Sisters, which was good, but made me feel really lucky not to have any Catholic-nun baggage...
Anyway, it's good to be in a routine again after such a crazy summer, and maybe that means the blog will become more regular too. I know how happy that would make you guys...
After returning from our honeymoon, which was fantastic, we have settled in Durham quite nicely. I have started school and Sarah has been in the midst of her job search for the last two weeks. We think she may be close to getting a job she'll like at a non-profit, so everyone keep their fingers crossed.
School is school, but it's even harder to get motivated because I recently received and accepted an offer for permanent employment from the firm that I worked at this summer. This was really great news and finally solidifies that we'll be in Washington, D.C. for the foreseeable future- as long as I pass the Bar Exam that is.
Josh Davis lives in Chapel Hill, so we went to lunch with him this weekend and got caught up on the Decatur happenings. We also saw The Magdalene Sisters, which was good, but made me feel really lucky not to have any Catholic-nun baggage...
Anyway, it's good to be in a routine again after such a crazy summer, and maybe that means the blog will become more regular too. I know how happy that would make you guys...
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