California
Ok, John inspired me...here's our itinerary for Calfornia :)
5:00 PM Friday...Eric and I leave work.
Little later...Aaron/Carissa/Crew drive us in eric's car to Dulles...we then turn over eric's car to their control :)
8:55 PM - Jet Blue Flight 319 - IAD to OAK, direct :)
11:30 PM PDT - Arrive - still debating renting a car
that night-stina's (and beer-i dont care where i have to go to get it, this is a tough week).
The next day...go to pre-wedding festivities....
sunday...wedding...who else is coming?
monday-tuesday--does anyone have any suggestions for what we should do in san francisco?
11:10 PM PDT Tuesday-Flight 318-we fly home
7:10 AM EDT-flight lands, aaron picks us up, and i go to work.
bleh :)
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1. Strawberries or blueberries? Hmm...that's tough...probably strawberries, though sweet, hand-picked blueberries are really really good, and I've never picked real strawberries. :)
2. "Legally Blonde 2" or "Terminator 3"? Neither. Oh my lord, neither. LEgally Blonde 1 was funny, but it could not have a sequel. Those are as high on my summer movie list as "From Justin to Kelly."
3. Hamburgers or hot dogs? Hamburgers...though I had a veggie burger that I really liked the other night...and we'll be eating vegetarian all weekend.
4. Boating or hiking? I don't do a lot of either. I like the water, and I like climbing on things :)
5. Suntan lotion or sunblock? Sunblick when I wear it - right now im in the "Sunburn for Color" phase...tho Jenny will kill me.
6. "Big Brother" or "The Amazing Race"? Um, I don't know?
7. Beach Boys or Jimmy Buffett? Aaron's mom met Jummy Buffett :)
8. Grow your own produce or buy from supermarket/greengrocer/farm stand? I'm sure growing it would be lovely, as would a farmstand or a greengrocer, but we don't have a lot of options :)
9. Drive with car windows/top down, or with air-conditioning on? Windows down, you can guess why :)
10. Go away for vacation, or stay at home? I like them both....you also can tell everyone you go away for the weekend and stay at home :).
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BBC NEWS | Africa | Bush deplores 'crime' of slavery
Hmm...Now, that Bush would acknowledge something like this, I wonder where he would stand on things like reparations, in our country. I still see this as an election year ploy... (stupid campaigns that start halfway through a presidency---the wife of Nixon's terrible attorney general, mrs. mitchell i think?--publically denounced reelection campaigns, saying that they spend 6 years trying to get to and stay in office)....
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Now, the downfall of people not looking at my site...
Who's going to the wedding this weekend? let me know....
But I wanted to comment on something on Storey's webpage. What the 4th of July has symbolized has actually changed, varying on where I have lived. When I lived in Norristown, and when I was growing up, there was a definite sense of celebrating history over the present on the Fourth of July. The Declaration of Independence was adopted by the Continental Congress on the 4th of July. The United States officially declared independence from Britain on the 2nd of July. That's when the resolution was adopted "in committee" if you want to call it that. I always grew up knowing the 4th of July symbolized our official committment to independence, to free ourselves from the oppression of Britain, and recognizing ourselves as a separate nation. I fully support that - as well as the ideals that this country was founded upon. That does not mean I agree with every way those ideals have been used. That does not mean that will blindly support Bush or go around waving an American Flag because we blew up Iraqi children. However, I do value the Fourth of July because it symbolizes not what the United States are but instead, what we could be, based on our beginnings.
But to go with my original discussion - I doubt in many places outside of Boston and Philadelphia are the historic origins of the Fourth of July really emphasized. I know here in DC there was a ceremonial reading and display of the DoI, (notwithstanding that the first public reading of the Declaration was on the 8th of July, 1776, 227 years ago today) but a much larger emphasis on what the United States is currently, not what it was, or could me.
:shrug: I also don't agree totally with the fireworks comment he made -- whereas you can see the fireworks (the greatest show in the country, i might add - the DC fireworks are amazing, year after year) from many places, for the majority of the unobstructed views, you had to go through several security checkpoints, roving undercover police officers, liquor bans, and snipers (for your protection).
Sigh--such is DC. :)
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So, its nice to have not a lot of people checking my website. I really appreciate it - but I do have a set of weird people accessing my site.
For example - the last 10 domains?
1. 5 July 11:55 BellSouth Inc., United States (I have no idea)
2. 5 July 14:36 Comcast Communications, United States
3. 5 July 17:05 Middlebury College, Middlebury, United States (i know where but not who)
4. 5 July 17:08 Middlebury College, Middlebury, United States (i know where but not who)
5. 5 July 17:43 The George Washington University, Washington, D.C., United States (lindsay?)
6. 5 July 23:21 Adelphia Communications, United States (I have no idea)
7. 6 July 07:15 Japan (aitai.ne.jp) must be random
8. 6 July 08:46 Netvision Ltd, Israel same here
9. 6 July 13:03 Comcast Communications, Alexandria, United States (that's me)
10. 6 July 13:07 Verizon Online, United States (someone)
I think I like this much better than having hundreds of people look at my page :)
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Oh yeah...
Happy 4th Of July!!
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1. What were your favorite childhood stories?
I read everything as a little kid - as a really little kid, I owned most of the berenstein's bear's books, and read them lots. Once I really new how to read, i started reading everything I could get my hands on. I read lots of fairy tales, series, you know it.
2. What books from your childhood would you like to share with [your] children?
The ordinary princess :). I need to find that book. Plus, I'm going to read them aloud the harry potter books, and things like little women :)
3. Have you re-read any of those childhood stories and been surprised by anything?
Not really. Just more how well I understood them then and how poorly i could remember them out of context, but how well I could remember them in context.
4. How old were you when you first learned to read?
Five. My kids are going to learn earlier.
5. Do you remember the first 'grown-up' book you read? How old were you?
Probably third grade - by that point I was taking books from my parent's shelves. Though, to this day, I still delve into crappy, mindless books.
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Dreams
I have strange ones. A few weeks ago, I had one dream -- imagine if Delaware could move. It would never be in the same place twice, it would move along its I-95 tether from Maine to Florida. In the dream, Delawares's position was determined by a council of people who determined things like that. Then the rest of the dream had nothing to do with Delaware.
I've also been having several dreams that involve the house I grew up in or my family. Yesterday, my mom and family was living with me, and we were in this apartment (eric and I were also living there) and the last bit of it was when i was screaming at my mother for filling the bathtub with moldy crap (stuff, i dont know where it came from) when I wanted to take a shower.
Today, it was a little more mundane. Harry Potter meets Communist Russia -- it was funny, no one did magic in the movie at all, we hopped into a car, and dodged ID checkpoints, and finally ended up in a piercing shop somewhere between here and Charlottesville. Alissa and Eric and I were all there -- just like we'll all be at the 4th barbecue in a few hours :)
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Julian's Reason Article on Harry Potter
Julian is no longer slogging away at Cato, and is instead the assistant editor of Reason Magazine. He wrote this interesting analysis of the latest Harry Potter book. Having read the books obsessively myself, I've already noted (not online, but to real people) the maturing of the books as we go. He does put the change in tone of the books into words, as well - the fantasy dream world that is the Magical side of England is marred, as all dream worlds are, with reality. Both the reality of people trying to do good and accomplishing evil and the act of knocking people down from pedestals.
Plus, this is the first book that Harry really bears full-responsibility for his actions. In previous books, things have always worked out. Though Dumbledore tries to take it upon himself, the real responsibility, for the first time (as with most 15 year olds) falls on Harry.
But yay Julian. Maybe he read it the first night too.
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Barbecue? You Could Do It in Your Sleep
Mmmm....CAn I just point out that at some point in my life, I'm going to live like this? I'm going to have a gigantic grill in the backyard, I will have a grill inside my house, and I will have lots of good things for me to cook....that is part of the lifestyle to which I would like to become accustomed :)
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PeopleSoft Sees a Good Quarter on Deals Oracle Calls Gimmicky
UMBC was one of those deals. I'm shocked we had the money for it.
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Bush Chooses U.S. Executive for AIDS Job
Ok boys and girls - who is surprised? I want to make a couple comments on this article....Mr. Tobias might be a good executive, but I think appointing someone with little to no experience with AIDS to be basically the "AIDS czar" is a little much. Especially as the article notes - as a former CEO of Eli Lily, is he really going to support lower-cost drugs to fight AIDS in Africa? I'd like to see his position on condoms, too :) But 15m year - if you were going to use the numbers in the article, and say that the money was JUST going to AIDS drugs (not any overhead, or anything else) would treat 1.1 million people at full-price for the drugs and 50 million people at generic prices.
God, it still isnt enough, denise, is it? Sigh.
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