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Typical Adventures: May 2011
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A document of sorts. Friday, May 20, 2011. Dinner with Friends Part II: Hosting. Recently M and I have had the opportunity to host a few friends for dinner. Our first, real dinner-party-for-the-sake-of-having-a-dinner-party guys! It's fun to treat our friends to a nice meal, and it's been great to learn to work together this way. When we made Thanksgiving dinner we fought out of a pressing sense of tradition (holiday's are stressful, right? For the meal we served a " shrimp and asparagus salad. Which was...
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Typical Adventures: January 2013
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A document of sorts. Friday, January 4, 2013. I've posted a year in pictures in the past. Where I made rules for myself about how many I could have per month. I didn't really do that this time. Every month has at least one picture, more have others. Happy New Year everyone. I hope (and expect) 2013 to be even better! Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Washington, District of Columbia, United States. View my complete profile. Enter your email address:. Middle of the Ride. The Art of Doing Stuff.
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Typical Adventures: Public History: Summer Internship
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A document of sorts. Friday, June 8, 2012. Public History: Summer Internship. At some point, maybe, I'll go back and write posts about all the things I did during the last two semesters. As for right now, I'm doing something really exciting this summer and I'd like to tell you about it. I have an education internship at this lovely place:. This is Tudor Place. The next program, probably my favorite, is called "History Detectives." In this program, kids are given flashcards featuring objects in the ho...
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Typical Adventures: February 2011
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A document of sorts. Monday, February 28, 2011. Beautiful World: Azalea Topiary. The garden at the Getty Center. We took Christine here for her visit to see us in L.A. I'll be showing you more of that later. If you aren't interested in Beautiful World Posts, no worries! Just scroll down to the most recent long post, tagged "Musings" and click on the tag. It will remove all the "BeautifulWorld" tagged posts from the page. Friday, February 25, 2011. Just a little project from last weekend. 1) The windows a...
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Typical Adventures: The National Building Museum: A Brief History
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A document of sorts. Sunday, December 16, 2012. The National Building Museum: A Brief History. So my friend Patricia. Pointed out in a comment how absolutely beautiful the National Building Museum is. I know, right? The building was originally built in the 1880's to host Inaugural Balls and to serve as the offices of U.S. Pension Bureau. Multi-tasking! There is a terracotta frieze of Civil War soldiers running along the entire building. I wonder why? He was trained at West Point as an Engineer and served...
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Typical Adventures: December 2012
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A document of sorts. Sunday, December 16, 2012. The National Building Museum: A Brief History. So my friend Patricia. Pointed out in a comment how absolutely beautiful the National Building Museum is. I know, right? The building was originally built in the 1880's to host Inaugural Balls and to serve as the offices of U.S. Pension Bureau. Multi-tasking! There is a terracotta frieze of Civil War soldiers running along the entire building. I wonder why? He was trained at West Point as an Engineer and served...
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Typical Adventures: Beautiful World: Star Fruit
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A document of sorts. Sunday, May 27, 2012. Beautiful World: Star Fruit. This is a star fruit:. Star fruit are tasty, something like apple-grape-lemon-pear in flavor. I know how to cut one properly (remove the veins running down the points) because my friend Christine taught me. Christine learned how by watching a lady on a train in China cut one. Isn't that neat? I like the world, don't you? Happy Memorial Day weekend everybody! June 8, 2012 at 11:19 AM. June 8, 2012 at 11:34 AM. It is a fruit salad!
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Typical Adventures: Beautiful World: Happy Easter
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A document of sorts. Sunday, April 8, 2012. Beautiful World: Happy Easter. No matter what today means to you, I hope it has been pleasant. I hope it was filled with caring people and exhilaration for the future. PS Does anyone know what this tree is called? I love it. One day, I want to plant one in my yard. Or seven. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Washington, District of Columbia, United States. View my complete profile. Beautiful World: Happy Easter. Beautiful World: Tenacious Violets.
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Typical Adventures: Museum Teacher
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A document of sorts. Tuesday, December 11, 2012. It's been a long time. I've been busy with school, and I know everyone understands what that's like. I finished both finals for the semester yesterday. (yay! Anyway, one thing I really have enjoyed this semester is my job which happily continues through the school year. I work at the National Building Museum as a museum teacher. The National Building Museum looks like this:. How lucky am I that I get to work in a building that looks like this? Enter your e...
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Typical Adventures: My 2010 in Pictures
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A document of sorts. Sunday, January 2, 2011. My 2010 in Pictures. Went to the Fort Worth Modern Museum with my parents,. Took photos with Victor at the Menil,. Hung out with friends,. Went to 100 Days,. Worked on the defunct Open Magazine Calendar,. Went on early morning walks with Brian,. Rode in the truck for Beer Bike 2010,. Was visited by Ezra, Phaedra, and Sylvie,. Went to Washington D.C. with Malcolm,. Enjoyed the Texas spring wildflowers,. Finally finished my thesis,. Danced at the Senior Gala,.