Well, the road trip to New York went well, with one unfortunate hitch towards the end. When we were on our way back, the car started making a loud engine noise. According to my dad, that's bad news. Luckily, Jeff and I were only a couple miles from his house in Baltimore when it happened, so we were able to get it towed to a car shop nearby that he knows, and his mom picked us up. Since it's a 3 hour round-trip drive to bring us back to DC, we stayed the night at his parents house and his mom dropped us off at the train station in Baltimore the next day on her way to work.
So, during our New York trip, our sleeping hours were about 5/6am to noon. Then, on Sunday night, I felt that I needed to watch the Sox - it was game four and they were up three games!!! Of course, it was worth it - hence the "Yay, Sox" in the title. So I didn't get to bed til after midnight... which would have been ok if we were still on the 5am-noon schedule. Unfortunately, Jeff's mom doesn't leave for work at noon, she leaves at 6:30am. And Jeff, who thinks the Red Sox are becoming the Yankees and went to bed at 10pm, was up and atom at 5:30am. So we took the MARC train to DC, got in around 8am, and I took a cab home. So, all that combined with my head cold made Monday into a strictly TV-Watching day. After a full dose of Star Trek Voyager and Enterprise, I think I'm better and ready for my Working Tuesday.
As for the car, it's currently in the shop - lost a spark plug, which I guess is bad, but not enough to total the car. Hopefully we'll have it back soon. Especially since the plan is to leave for Boston on Thursday night!
Tuesday, October 30, 2007
Saturday, October 27, 2007
Katie's Keyboard Is Missing a Letter...
I'm spending this weekend in New York to celebrate Katie's 21st Birthday. Jeff and I didn't act*ally get in *ntil abo*t 8pm. We stopped on the way to pick *p Katie's gift from my family, which was a new digital camera. We got her a red Nikon Coolpix S200, which seems really good. On Friday night the first thing we did after getting here was go shopping. (Imagine that...) Katie and I got dresses at Forever 21.
That night we went to a cl*b called "Pl*mm". It was a really nice place - even Jeff had really liked it!
Here's some pics:
Happy 21st Birthday, Katie!!!
We ended the night by staying with o*r friend, Ray in Hoboken, NJ. It's a short path train over, and since he doesn't seem to go to bed *ntil after 5am, it worked out will with lots of time to hang o*t. He's got his apartment set *p so that everything can be r*n from his computer, and has an 8 foot screen with a projector in his living room. We watched one of the episodes abo*t Earth from the discovery channel - I can't remember what's it's act*ally called now, but that on an 8 ft screen in HD was f*n. Nice way to end the night.
That night we went to a cl*b called "Pl*mm". It was a really nice place - even Jeff had really liked it!
Here's some pics:
Happy 21st Birthday, Katie!!!
We ended the night by staying with o*r friend, Ray in Hoboken, NJ. It's a short path train over, and since he doesn't seem to go to bed *ntil after 5am, it worked out will with lots of time to hang o*t. He's got his apartment set *p so that everything can be r*n from his computer, and has an 8 foot screen with a projector in his living room. We watched one of the episodes abo*t Earth from the discovery channel - I can't remember what's it's act*ally called now, but that on an 8 ft screen in HD was f*n. Nice way to end the night.
Thursday, October 25, 2007
Bits and Peices...
I don't have a substantial amount of news to go into this blog, but just an assorted group of items. Things are going well with work and school. I got back my first two papers - I got A's on both!
Wednesday was really fun - I stayed home and did work most of the day, and then Jeff and I went to Baltimore. We went to a cool tea shop called Teavolve, and then met up with his mom at a restaurant that happened to be across the street - La Cazuela. It's an Ecuadorian restaurant, and it was really good! (More about both those things available on my website - http://mariel.john.googlepages.com)
Today, I found out that one of the professors I work for wrote an OpEd in the Wall Street Journal, and then was interviewed on the Wall Street Journal Law Blog. He teaches a class on Space Law that I'm going to be taking next year. http://blogs.wsj.com/law/
Tomorrow Jeff and I are off to New York to hang out with Katie and celebrate her 21st birthday!
Wednesday was really fun - I stayed home and did work most of the day, and then Jeff and I went to Baltimore. We went to a cool tea shop called Teavolve, and then met up with his mom at a restaurant that happened to be across the street - La Cazuela. It's an Ecuadorian restaurant, and it was really good! (More about both those things available on my website - http://mariel.john.googlepages.com)
Today, I found out that one of the professors I work for wrote an OpEd in the Wall Street Journal, and then was interviewed on the Wall Street Journal Law Blog. He teaches a class on Space Law that I'm going to be taking next year. http://blogs.wsj.com/law/
Tomorrow Jeff and I are off to New York to hang out with Katie and celebrate her 21st birthday!
Tuesday, October 23, 2007
Two states on Saturday!
The Katie and Carvey visit continued on Saturday. Jeff got up early and went to take a test (Test on a Saturday!), and Katie decided to stay in and study. Carvey and I went out to see DC...
...especially the Air and Space Museum.
Then we all got together and went to Baltimore.
We showed Katie and Carvey around the Inner Harbor, and then decided to see it from the water - via an awesome trip on a paddleboat.
Katie would have liked to ride the dragon boat, but they only hold 3 adults.
Then we went to Fells Point where we met up with Jeff's friends - it was Rachel's birthday!
And that was it for the weekend. Carvey headed out early the next morning, and Katie left Sunday evening (after a day of studying for a test).
...especially the Air and Space Museum.
Then we all got together and went to Baltimore.
We showed Katie and Carvey around the Inner Harbor, and then decided to see it from the water - via an awesome trip on a paddleboat.
Katie would have liked to ride the dragon boat, but they only hold 3 adults.
Then we went to Fells Point where we met up with Jeff's friends - it was Rachel's birthday!
And that was it for the weekend. Carvey headed out early the next morning, and Katie left Sunday evening (after a day of studying for a test).
Saturday, October 20, 2007
Friday Fun
We had a good Friday - Ethiopian for lunch...
then hanging out at our house so that Jeff could study and Carvey and I could watch Start Trek.
We went to Love Cafe for some yummy cake and coffee.
We watched a few episodes of Beauty and the Geek so Katie could see John's make-over. Then we got ready and headed out for the night.
We had dinner at a trendy Thai food place near my house, called Rice. Then we went to The Black Cat night club for 80's night.
Good times!
then hanging out at our house so that Jeff could study and Carvey and I could watch Start Trek.
We went to Love Cafe for some yummy cake and coffee.
We watched a few episodes of Beauty and the Geek so Katie could see John's make-over. Then we got ready and headed out for the night.
We had dinner at a trendy Thai food place near my house, called Rice. Then we went to The Black Cat night club for 80's night.
Good times!
Friday, October 19, 2007
Katie and Carvey!
My sister and Matt Carvey are both in town for the weekend. I really love having visitors, and I'm excited to show them around the area. Last night Carvey got in around 6pm and he and Jeff came over to my school to compete in a trivia match at one of our "Thursday Night In" events. It was a lot of fun, and extra nice because they got to meet my friends from school. A few of us went out to "The Sign of the Whale" - a bar on M Street - and watched the Red Sox beat Cleveland. Katie got into Union Station at about 1:30am, and we drove over there and picked her up. We all slept in pretty late today, but pretty soon we're headed out to Ethiopian food for lunch. Time to get ready...
Small World
I had two small world experiences recently, so I think that warrants a blog entry.
First, I went out to dinner with my third cousin*. I had found out that she was in Washington, DC (through facebook), and she lives really close to where I go to school. So she and her boyfriend and Jeff and I went out for 10 cent wings. It was very cool to catch up - I don't know when I last saw her. Actually, a lot of the catching up was sort of reminding each other of who our siblings are and what they're up to. Her boyfriend is a substitute teacher (he actually has a degree in education and wants to be a social studies teacher, but they got to DC just after the school year started, so there aren't any openings). She is working at a interpreter office - she schedules free-lance interpreters to cover events. The sound like they're having a really good time. They haven't seen much of the east coast, so Jeff and I have invited them to come to New York or Boston with us. I think it'd be really fun to go on a mini-road trip with them. I really like the idea of knowing your extended family and staying in touch with people. I've been trying to collect information on my family tree, so we'll see where that goes.
The second small world experience is that two of the students from Vigyan Ashram** (a school in Pabal, India - a village where I stayed two years ago) got gmail addresses, and now they are on gmail chat a lot of the time. India is 9.5 hours different from D.C. - that works out almost perfectly so that when I'm up in the morning checking my email before class, they are online before going to bed. When I get home from classes and am online doing homework, they're just waking up, eating breakfast and chatting online. It's been really fun to be in touch with them. It reminds me of all the really interesting similarities and differences between here and there - and makes me miss India a lot. One day we were chatting about holidays, and they were asking if the Ganesh Festival and Diwali are celebrated here. I told them about Halloween and tried to explain what that holiday is about. Mahesh got in touch with my brother, who works at a computer company, because he's interested in Linux. It's really fun to be in touch with people on the other side of the world and keep up to date on what's going on.
*We have the same great-great grandparents, our great-grandmothers were sisters, our grandmothers were cousins, our mothers second cousins (I think that's what it's called), which makes us third cousins.)
**Vigyan Ashram Website: http://www.vigyanashram.com/
First, I went out to dinner with my third cousin*. I had found out that she was in Washington, DC (through facebook), and she lives really close to where I go to school. So she and her boyfriend and Jeff and I went out for 10 cent wings. It was very cool to catch up - I don't know when I last saw her. Actually, a lot of the catching up was sort of reminding each other of who our siblings are and what they're up to. Her boyfriend is a substitute teacher (he actually has a degree in education and wants to be a social studies teacher, but they got to DC just after the school year started, so there aren't any openings). She is working at a interpreter office - she schedules free-lance interpreters to cover events. The sound like they're having a really good time. They haven't seen much of the east coast, so Jeff and I have invited them to come to New York or Boston with us. I think it'd be really fun to go on a mini-road trip with them. I really like the idea of knowing your extended family and staying in touch with people. I've been trying to collect information on my family tree, so we'll see where that goes.
The second small world experience is that two of the students from Vigyan Ashram** (a school in Pabal, India - a village where I stayed two years ago) got gmail addresses, and now they are on gmail chat a lot of the time. India is 9.5 hours different from D.C. - that works out almost perfectly so that when I'm up in the morning checking my email before class, they are online before going to bed. When I get home from classes and am online doing homework, they're just waking up, eating breakfast and chatting online. It's been really fun to be in touch with them. It reminds me of all the really interesting similarities and differences between here and there - and makes me miss India a lot. One day we were chatting about holidays, and they were asking if the Ganesh Festival and Diwali are celebrated here. I told them about Halloween and tried to explain what that holiday is about. Mahesh got in touch with my brother, who works at a computer company, because he's interested in Linux. It's really fun to be in touch with people on the other side of the world and keep up to date on what's going on.
*We have the same great-great grandparents, our great-grandmothers were sisters, our grandmothers were cousins, our mothers second cousins (I think that's what it's called), which makes us third cousins.)
**Vigyan Ashram Website: http://www.vigyanashram.com/
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