West of the Moon

Archive for July, 2009

clearinghouse.

I’m back from the seminar, which was both excellent and exhausting.  And I’ve got all these open tabs to close, so. We went on a trip to Mount Vernon, and I took a lot of pictures.  Our trip to Mount Vernon was focused less on Washington-as-statesman and more on the experience of slave life on [...]

summer driving.

Sunday morning, driving on I-95 somewhere in the middle of New Jersey, I passed an exit sign that indicated “Shore Points” and I was immediately struck with the powerful urge to take that exit, to head down the shore and spend the rest of my day at the beach or on the boardwalk, somewhere sun-soaked [...]

Shakespeare in the Park

Even though vacation usually means you can sleep in, I woke up at some crazy hour — earlier than I normally wake up for work! — so that I could go sit in Central Park all morning, in the hopes of getting tickets to see Twelfth Night.  Unless you can pay the $170/person for “summer [...]

bored now.

I feel like this is the kind of thing I shouldn’t admit, but honestly, I’m in kind of a reading slump where science fiction is concerned. You know those moments where you’re casting about for something to read?  It used to be that my first impulse in those moments was always towards the science fiction [...]