I promise, no more nonsense posts once I sort all this technical stuff out!
Here's a pretty picture:
A dead jellyfish! Hooray!
2.16.2009
Posting something cool, to try out the RSS Twitter!
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I promise, no more nonsense posts once I sort all this technical stuff out!
Here's a pretty picture:
A dead jellyfish! Hooray!
I promise, no more nonsense posts once I sort all this technical stuff out!
Here's a pretty picture:
A dead jellyfish! Hooray!
Blog Repurposing
Long time, no updates from Kate.
I'm going to try to remedy this, but first I need to make some structural changes. I've never been very good at blogging about my life. There are too many things that are confidential, or hurtful, or just not suitable for a wide audience. Most of my best stories are ones I can't post here for one reason or another.
However, I am trying (slowly but surely) to work more on artsy endeavors. So I'm thinking I can post about that here. Links to items I make and maybe try to sell on Etsy. Photos of cool things that catch my eye. Reviews about creative endeavors that have impressed me, one way or another. (Which DOES mean closing down Kate Reviews Things. How crazy was I to think I could keep up TWO blogs? I'm bad enough at one.) And links to blog entries and news articles that I find intriguing. I think that I will be better at it this way.
But first, give me a few days to recode this site, and close the other one. Then, you just might have the beginnings of a real blog. Watch out, cyber-world.
I'm going to try to remedy this, but first I need to make some structural changes. I've never been very good at blogging about my life. There are too many things that are confidential, or hurtful, or just not suitable for a wide audience. Most of my best stories are ones I can't post here for one reason or another.
However, I am trying (slowly but surely) to work more on artsy endeavors. So I'm thinking I can post about that here. Links to items I make and maybe try to sell on Etsy. Photos of cool things that catch my eye. Reviews about creative endeavors that have impressed me, one way or another. (Which DOES mean closing down Kate Reviews Things. How crazy was I to think I could keep up TWO blogs? I'm bad enough at one.) And links to blog entries and news articles that I find intriguing. I think that I will be better at it this way.
But first, give me a few days to recode this site, and close the other one. Then, you just might have the beginnings of a real blog. Watch out, cyber-world.
10.29.2008
Oh my goodness it has been a long time
And there are a million things to say, not the least of them that I now live in Oregon (Oregon!) and am looking for a job (a job!). But what is really important right now, right in this moment, is that my friend Fu has tagged me in some blog meme and I feel obligated to fill it out. Partially because I am susceptible to peer pressure, but mostly because I miss Fu.
The Meme:
1. Link to the person that tagged you.
2. Post the rules on your blog.
3. Share six non-important things/habits/quirks about yourself.
4. Tag six random people at the end of your post by linking to their blogs.
5. Let each random person know they have been tagged by leaving a comment on their website.
6. Let your tagger know when your entry is up.
1) I just baked myself some pumpkin seeds. Half of them are super-salty, and half of them are coated in pumpkin pie spices. They are all delicious. Since I have already eaten a homemade apple pie, it is now really autumn. In my mind, seasons are delineated by food.
2) I can spend half of my day just looking at design blogs. I find it much easier to focus on pretty pictures and imaginary decorating than to say, edit a cover letter.
3) I currently have 26 items checked out from the library. I typically have anywhere from 20-60 items checked out at any given time. I use the library for everything.
4) I like to travel. Similarly, I like to have travel goals. I find it makes travel more fulfilling. Overseas travel, however, is very very expensive. I refuse to have overseas travel goals. Aside from a vague 'Top Five Places to Go' in my head. Overseas travel just sort of happens sometimes, when a cheap ticket falls into my lap. So, anyway, I like to make up arbitrary goals in North America. My current goal is to visit all fifty states. I am very very close. I have only 4 left (Iowa, Nebraska, North Dakota, Montana), and I have a plan to visit them! They are all on the Lewis & Clark Trail, and someday I will travel this trail and see them all! After accomplishing this goal, the new goal will be to visit all of the National Parks. It's good to have goals.
5) I want to be an architect. The cute story that goes with this is that I have a friend (Georgina), who is currently studying to be an architect (she figured this out before me). When we were little (9-10ish) we would sit around all day and draw floor plans and maps of the imaginary places we played in. Who knew?
6) I live like a block from a Mexican grocery store, and anytime I am sad, I walk over and buy a cookie (either a cream horn or the Mexican sugar cookie that's a triangle with 3 colors) and a Mexican coke. This never fails to make me feel better.
I am tagging: Megan, Karen, Erin, Georgina, Ozzie and Cecily.
The Meme:
1. Link to the person that tagged you.
2. Post the rules on your blog.
3. Share six non-important things/habits/quirks about yourself.
4. Tag six random people at the end of your post by linking to their blogs.
5. Let each random person know they have been tagged by leaving a comment on their website.
6. Let your tagger know when your entry is up.
1) I just baked myself some pumpkin seeds. Half of them are super-salty, and half of them are coated in pumpkin pie spices. They are all delicious. Since I have already eaten a homemade apple pie, it is now really autumn. In my mind, seasons are delineated by food.
2) I can spend half of my day just looking at design blogs. I find it much easier to focus on pretty pictures and imaginary decorating than to say, edit a cover letter.
3) I currently have 26 items checked out from the library. I typically have anywhere from 20-60 items checked out at any given time. I use the library for everything.
4) I like to travel. Similarly, I like to have travel goals. I find it makes travel more fulfilling. Overseas travel, however, is very very expensive. I refuse to have overseas travel goals. Aside from a vague 'Top Five Places to Go' in my head. Overseas travel just sort of happens sometimes, when a cheap ticket falls into my lap. So, anyway, I like to make up arbitrary goals in North America. My current goal is to visit all fifty states. I am very very close. I have only 4 left (Iowa, Nebraska, North Dakota, Montana), and I have a plan to visit them! They are all on the Lewis & Clark Trail, and someday I will travel this trail and see them all! After accomplishing this goal, the new goal will be to visit all of the National Parks. It's good to have goals.
5) I want to be an architect. The cute story that goes with this is that I have a friend (Georgina), who is currently studying to be an architect (she figured this out before me). When we were little (9-10ish) we would sit around all day and draw floor plans and maps of the imaginary places we played in. Who knew?
6) I live like a block from a Mexican grocery store, and anytime I am sad, I walk over and buy a cookie (either a cream horn or the Mexican sugar cookie that's a triangle with 3 colors) and a Mexican coke. This never fails to make me feel better.
I am tagging: Megan, Karen, Erin, Georgina, Ozzie and Cecily.
2.03.2008
W'burg!
Fu was complaining that I hadn't updated my blog in a while, so here I go. (Though I know he meant my other blog and he wants a review of Sweeney Todd. I'll get there.)
I am in the Charlotte airport right now, wasting time during my layover. I am on my way back from Williamsburg, where my good friend Megan just became a deacon in the Episcopal church. Exciting! I got all teary.
It was even more exciting, because everyone came to see Megan get ordained, and so I got to spend my weekend in Williamsburg (a place so pretty that in retrospect I can't believe that the forces that be let me go to college there) playing and reminiscing with some of my favorite people in the entire world. Poor Megan had to vote at Diocesan council, so she turned out to be the person I really didn't get to see enough of.
But I did get to see Chris and Grace and Kay and Claire and Leslie and Andy and Sarah and Catie and a million more people who I haven't seen in far too long. It was like a reunion of only the people you really like. None of the people that you don't really like and then have to awkwardly talk to.
I didn't really do anything of consequence. We just ran around and ate transcendently delicious sandwiches. And I was happy in a way I haven't been in entirely too long.
For those of you who might ever go to Williamsburg, here are an alum's idea of important places to hit:
1)Take the Jamestown ferry across the river to Surry and eat at the Surry House. the food is delicious, and the people who run the place are some of the nicest I have ever met. They always remind us when the ferry is about to leave!
2)Go to Mermaid Books on Prince George Street. It is one of the best book stores EVER. It has a really interesting collection of books - particularly on Jane Austen, art history and history. It also sells a lot antiques, which are just mixed in with all of the books. It's a treasure trove of cool stuff. I found a Spiro Agnew speech on a 45 last time I was there!
3)Eat at the Cheese Shop at least 3 times. I only managed twice this visit, and I could have had another sandwich. They are the best sandwiches in my life.
4)If it's warm out, check and see if Sno to Go is open. If it is, go there. Several times.
5)Jamestown Pie Company on Jamestown Road makes pizza AND fruit pies. This is an awesome premise for an eatery and deserves to be rewarded with business. Also, their food is tasty.
6)Go to a night service at Bruton Parish. Even if you aren't religious - they have concerts a lot, and the mood of that building lit by candlelight cannot be beat. It makes me hate electrical light.
7)Drive the Colonial Parkway.
All I have for now. Feel free to add things, WM alums!
In 6 months Megan has to be ordained to the priesthood, so maybe we'll get to do it again? If only money were no object.
I am in the Charlotte airport right now, wasting time during my layover. I am on my way back from Williamsburg, where my good friend Megan just became a deacon in the Episcopal church. Exciting! I got all teary.
It was even more exciting, because everyone came to see Megan get ordained, and so I got to spend my weekend in Williamsburg (a place so pretty that in retrospect I can't believe that the forces that be let me go to college there) playing and reminiscing with some of my favorite people in the entire world. Poor Megan had to vote at Diocesan council, so she turned out to be the person I really didn't get to see enough of.
But I did get to see Chris and Grace and Kay and Claire and Leslie and Andy and Sarah and Catie and a million more people who I haven't seen in far too long. It was like a reunion of only the people you really like. None of the people that you don't really like and then have to awkwardly talk to.
I didn't really do anything of consequence. We just ran around and ate transcendently delicious sandwiches. And I was happy in a way I haven't been in entirely too long.
For those of you who might ever go to Williamsburg, here are an alum's idea of important places to hit:
1)Take the Jamestown ferry across the river to Surry and eat at the Surry House. the food is delicious, and the people who run the place are some of the nicest I have ever met. They always remind us when the ferry is about to leave!
2)Go to Mermaid Books on Prince George Street. It is one of the best book stores EVER. It has a really interesting collection of books - particularly on Jane Austen, art history and history. It also sells a lot antiques, which are just mixed in with all of the books. It's a treasure trove of cool stuff. I found a Spiro Agnew speech on a 45 last time I was there!
3)Eat at the Cheese Shop at least 3 times. I only managed twice this visit, and I could have had another sandwich. They are the best sandwiches in my life.
4)If it's warm out, check and see if Sno to Go is open. If it is, go there. Several times.
5)Jamestown Pie Company on Jamestown Road makes pizza AND fruit pies. This is an awesome premise for an eatery and deserves to be rewarded with business. Also, their food is tasty.
6)Go to a night service at Bruton Parish. Even if you aren't religious - they have concerts a lot, and the mood of that building lit by candlelight cannot be beat. It makes me hate electrical light.
7)Drive the Colonial Parkway.
All I have for now. Feel free to add things, WM alums!
In 6 months Megan has to be ordained to the priesthood, so maybe we'll get to do it again? If only money were no object.
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