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photos

2009-09-01T03:49:22Z

so, i've added 7 new sets to my flickr account since i last posted here.

check them out!

flickr.com/photos/desultor -- just look down the right-hand side and you'll see them all.

cheetahs, giraffes, and rhinos, oh my!

kenilworth aquatic gardens

2009-08-10T03:51:34Z

i posted pictures to flickr. they're pretty. here's my description of the set:

I went to Kenilworth Aquatic Gardens in Northeast DC the morning of Sunday, August 9. It was hot and humid, and the lotus flowers and water lilies were past their peak but still beautiful. As always, the only editing I've done is cropping.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/desultor/sets/72157621870912945/

um, what?

2009-07-26T18:09:54Z

i went to sleep around 12:30-1 last night. i woke up for two hours around 7:30 this morning, then went back to sleep.

and then i just woke up 20 minutes ago. what? what happened? how did i sleep til 2????

i'm in love

2009-07-24T18:54:13Z

sadly a) i just re-signed my lease and there is a breed restriction against dobermans (and lots of others, too, but)
b) i am not really ready to change my lifestyle for a dog.

but, this is a video of my boyfriend, and i'm in there a bit too. watch it! he's sooooo cute.

i love him.

i m so smrt

2009-07-15T23:39:09Z

i never in my entire life, til just this moment, realized that georgia ave is one of the streets in dc that is named after a state. never. ever. until now, when i was looking at a map of downtown (that didn't even have georgia on it). wtf?!?!

butterflies

2009-07-12T23:46:12Z

i went to brookside gardens today and took pictures of butterflies. 350 pictures of butterflies. i whittled them down to 29, though, since that's all that my flickr non-pro can take without starting to not-show the earliest photos i uploaded.... so now i have to decide to go pro or not. i think i'll have to. sigh.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/desultor/sets/72157621229284243/

pretty butterflies!

fireworks!

2009-07-10T00:58:14Z

i was in boston for the fourth.

i have pictures of the fireworks.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/desultor/sets/72157621198735068/

steve mcnair

2009-07-05T04:06:30Z

what the hell??? what is going on with all the famous people dying lately?

though i don't think you can count 'being shot several times, including once in the head, and being found next to the body of a woman 16 years younger than you, who has one gunshot wound to the head and the gun nearby' as simply 'dying'.

r.i.p. steve mcnair.

i was in austin for a week

2009-06-20T15:18:59Z

for our annual conference.

i just want to relate this bit of what staying in a hotel for a week will do you to once you come home:

i half woke up at some point early this morning, probably around 5 or 6. i opened my eyes blearily, and said to myself, "why is there a window so close?" yes, that's right, i had no idea where i was. wheee.

More flickr-y goodness

2009-06-08T00:32:26Z

A friend of mine was here this weekend from San Diego. Today, we went down to the mall and walked around, and visited the Botanical Garden. I'd never been. We also briefly visited the National Gallery of Art.

I've put the photos on Flickr, for those of you that are interested (and you all should be!). :)

http://www.flickr.com/photos/desultor

omg bacon

2009-05-29T14:46:52Z

amazon's deal of the day, 20% off all J&D's bacon products.... woo! http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html?ie=UTF8&docId=1000383191

also, in case you all haven't seen it, www.moerbacon.com.

i just thought about deviled eggs made with baconnaise. i am now weak in the knees.

wedding pics uploaded

2009-05-27T01:34:15Z

to flickr.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/desultor

ow my arm

2009-05-26T01:34:18Z

back from a lovely and fantastic wedding on the outer banks, nc. dragonkat747 looked gorgeous, and she and stagemonkey were so happy and cute together. awwww. i will post pics on my flickr once i edit them.

also, i retardedly got a bad farmer's tan (burn, really, it's bright red) on my left arm, from driving with no sunblock. wtf?

hew-man

2009-05-19T13:13:42Z

what's the best thing about being human?

sporty sports

2009-05-03T03:15:02Z

go caps, go mine that bird, go red sox, go celtics! woo!

and go mint juleps!

i m so classy

2009-04-26T20:07:22Z

today i attempted to make my first ever mint julep. i think it turned out pretty much how it should, though i don't have the special silver cup. also, i don't like bourbon. nevertheless, for some reason i decided to make it. i'm sipping super slowly, hoping that at some point i will stop tasting the whiskey and start tasting only sugary mint. of course, at some point, i will stop tasting anything at all.... :)

okay, so it's been a while

2009-03-22T05:07:39Z

so, i got back from egypt a couple months ago. got back into the swing of things with work. one panel was at the end of january, then another the week after, then mine two weeks after that. if you don't know what i mean by "panel" don't worry, it doesn't really matter. not really clear on what happened in between them; lots of work.

as a result, i now have 4 comp days and one holiday-that-i-worked-so-i-can-take-some-other-day-off day, which means i have a full week that i don't have to work and don't have to take vacation. of course, in order to do anything really serious i'd need more money than i have, so really i'm just considering going to boston at some point. i really want to go, i'm just not sure when is a good time, and even though it will cost less than, say, paris, it will still cost money because i am into eating and drinking and those things don't come free. at least, not the way i like to do them. oishii, i'm looking at you.

i got a haircut today. it's a bit shorter than i'd like it. i did ask for it to be this short, but we'll see what it's like once i wash/dry it. also got it highlighted, a combination of blond and red that are fairly subtle, though a touch less subtle than back in october.

what else. cerylium came to dc a couple weeks ago, and it was quite lovely to see her, as i haven't seen her since the last time i was in boston, the summer of 2007. hilarity and blackberry pie mark 2 ensued.

i went to a fun wine dinner at morton's (where my roommate works) and shook the hand of gilbert arenas. also i was the one who recognized him, btw, not either of the guys in our group.

i took a fantastic improv class at washingtonimprovtheater.com also known as WIT. the class was called patterns and games, and the instructor was patrick gantz. it was wonderful wonderful wonderful, and i now feel like a much more solid improviser, and am not quite so terrified of being up there on stage without having memorized a script. if you're in the dc area and are interested in improv, look into WIT! one day you might get to take patterns and games, and then you'll have an awesome experience.

sushi taro is not yet open again, boo. supposedly the end of march. word has it they cut out 50 seats and are raising prices... not sure that's a great idea, but we'll see what happens. i just hope they're a) open in time for the cherry blossom festival and b) still going to do all-you-can-eat sushi. otherwise i will cry. for realz.

battlestar galactica is over, and i am sad. i won't spoil anything here, i'm just sad it's over.

the bbc series robin hood season three is supposed to air march 28th in the uk. hopefully there will be some way for me to watch it.

i went to see the dog in the manger, by lope de vega. definitely not one of his strongest plays, but decent. this wednesday is ion by euripides. i know nothing about it.

also due to the kindness of a friend i was given a ticket to go see wynton marsalis and jazz at the lincoln center orchestra last monday, so that was a good time.

i'm aware this is all kind of a scattershot approach, but hey, at least i'm giving a substantive update, right? wheee.

i'm looking forward to two other long-time friends coming to visit, one in april and one in may, and another friend coming in june. i like feeling like i have friends. yay friends!

not going to go into details about the kate spade purse i just got to stand in for my other bag while it's off getting repaired. nope. not mentioning it's a gray logan tarrytown satchel.... nope.

no shoe purchases lately though!

i've started watching arrested development, and mad men is in the queue also, so we'll see how those go.

and yes, i did finally watch wall-e, and it was amazing and made me cry.

i can't really think of anything else. hope you all are doing well.

also randomly

2009-02-17T03:30:47Z

I love the movie Ratatouille. I can't really say why, other than that it's such a cute story and not saccharinely sweet. I knew within the first 5 minutes I'd like it. There was the freeze-frame of Remy being tossed out the window, and I was like, this is going to go one of two ways: I'll really like it, or I'll really hate it, nothing in between.

I love it!

Just thought I'd share.

24 spoiler alert

2009-02-17T03:24:22Z

oh come ON. really? sean? i mean, what? BO-RING.

Blackberry Pie Result

2009-02-10T03:23:41Z

http://www.flickr.com/photos/desultor/3268588194

I am making blackberry pie.

2009-02-08T21:59:29Z

http://saveur.com/article/Food/Blackberry-Pie

I am such a dessert maker, which is weird because I almost never eat it. Anyway, I will just say, I recommend Saveur.com. They have not yet steered me wrong. Mmmmm, tasty.

Oh, also, I got Nutella today. Finally! And some Turkish figs. And random other stuff.

wrongness

2009-01-23T01:13:10Z

would it be wrong to make banana nut pancakes for dinner?

bed poll

2009-01-21T02:41:05Z

do you make your bed every day?

you can use varying definitions of "make", here.

thoughts?

Delayed Christmas

2009-01-18T04:19:56Z

Wow!

My dad just gave me the Nikon D80 and 18-200 lens with which I shot in Egypt! Wooooo!!! (And two memory cards, and an extra battery pack!)

Rock on!! I am super psyched.

Also I uploaded to my Flickr account some pictures I took in high school (so don't be too critical) and pictures of when I visited Edward Gorey's house in Yarmouthport in the summer of 2007.

Egypt pictures

2009-01-13T10:45:36Z

Unfortunately I woke up at 2:23 am this time instead of 5 like the past couple days.

So, I decided to do something useful. I finished narrowing down the 1500 pictures I took to 56, and made some small edits (removing spots, rotating). I did not retouch or alter anything beyond that.

So, here's the set on my new Flickr account:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/desultor/sets/72157612516087086/

Yay.

EDIT: I've now added descriptions to all the photos so you can even figure out what you're looking at! PPS - add me on your Flickr contact list!