Window grate, noticed in Philadelphia:
The photo doesn’t quite do it justice — it’s more three-dimensional than it looks.
Entries from July 2008
July 27, 2008
Nutrition Facts and Fictions
I’m not a Calorie counter or a carb counter or anything, but I’m going to complain about something for a second…
I’ve mentioned my coffee order rut before. It makes me pretty good at distinguishing between different Americanos. If I had it my way all the time (or if I, um, made my own [...]
July 24, 2008
The Way Things Go
In the middle of the night while I was away I got a series of text messages from a (likely intoxicated) friend in Denver. He was at a bar and spotted The Esquire, the guy I hit it off with last fall, and the one who subsequently broke my intentional dating dry spell.
That guy [...]
July 23, 2008
Two Favorites Revisited
I’ve raved before about the Philadelphia Museum of Art and how very much I love it, and I love it no less after this trip. My favorite piece is, without a doubt, Cy Twombly’s Fifty Days at Ilium. There is a room dedicated to it, and it deserves this room. Twombly says so much with [...]
July 22, 2008
Traveling Alone
So I’ve done a fair amount of traveling alone, and I have to say I enjoy it for the most part. Sometimes it’s lonely. But getting on a plane alone is never a bad thing. Especially if your alternative to “alone” would be “with children.” I’ve only traveled “with children” when [...]
July 21, 2008
95-Degree Heat Never Felt So Good
I’m not a big fan of heat in general, but I have to say I much, much, much prefer the dry heat of Denver (even when we whine that it’s humid, it soooo isn’t) to the humid heat of Philadelphia. Philadelphia was fun. We were outside in the hot, hot heat a lot, and it [...]
July 13, 2008
Naked on 17th Avenue
Don’t worry — I was clothed!
Last night Christopher and I were having dinner at P17 (because it was closed when we tried to go at lunch! The nerve!), when we heard a little ruckus coming eastbound on 17th Avenue. It was a mass of people on bikes — 50 people, maybe? And [...]
July 12, 2008
Blockbusters
So a couple weeks ago I broke down and saw Sex and the City with a friend, even though I haven’t really watched the show (though I have another friend who references it frequently, as in, “that’s just like Season 4, Episode 4, where Carrie…” etc.). Anyway, the movie: fine, I guess. Except [...]
July 11, 2008
Los Limones
Life gave me lemons this week! But not in a bad way!
I missed the UPS truck on Thursday. And on Monday. And on Tuesday. But on Wednesday I made the trek up to Commerce City and sat around reading my new favorite book while I waited for the UPS “runner” to retrieve my parcel. The [...]
July 8, 2008
Gigi and the Generation Gap
So a few weeks ago I had a bad day and a little breakdown about how I need to be a better person. It wasn’t an unfamiliar feeling — frantic loneliness, boredom, indecision, being hard on myself for stupid things (like snacks for dinner), etc., etc., etc. My then-boyfriend, who was at the receiving end [...]
