Project 365: Day 110

Another kind of sick day-- this is my very favorite alley near my house, near CVS.

Project 365: Day 109

Today was a sick day. Blegh! I spent many hours in bed, but AJ was a super-sweetie and made me zucchini pancakes. Even better, he made me some special ones shaped like hearts. Awwwwwwwww.

Project 365: Day 108

AJ and I sojourned to Washington, D.C. today to visit some Smithsonians. It was AJ's first time to our nation's capital; hence the requisite dorky photo from the Mall.

My favorite part was visiting Kermit (Greenfrog!) in the Museum of American History. <3

We also spent a lot of time at the Air and Space Museum, where we got to see awesome stuff like the (not real) moon lander. Also awesome, and sadly not photographed: getting to see Ned and Steve for dinner.

Project 365: Day 107

Mmm! More cooking adventures. This time: pork loin with apples and onions over a sweet honey polenta. Delicious.

Project 365: Day 106

AJ and I went to Camden Yards to see another losing effort by the Orioles. They were totally outgunned by the Angels. But Camden is so pretty and we had a lovely evening. We may have purchased $9 seats and proceeded to sit in $45 seats.

Project 365: Day 105

 

AJ and I went out to the Inner Harbor to celebrate Restaurant Week, and being together, and crab. The restaurant was literally on the water, which was great. We had a lovely view of boats and downtown Baltimore from our table.

We also had imperial shrimp stuffed with crab and two crab cakes (along with Maryland Crab Soup and Cream of Crab soup and the most amazing cheesecake I've ever tasted for dessert). Om nom nom nom.

Project 365: Day 104

While I was waiting in New Haven for AJ to arrive, I went to Ikea. I had lunch there, where I got to eat pretty much the best faux-Swedish food ever. Yum. There was also a sad group of old people sitting behind me. They'd been there all day, having eaten the $.99 breakfast special and nursed their coffees until lunch time.

Project 365: Day 103

Calhoun College, now without ugly construction along College Street! Sorry I didn't have the light/time to take more and better photos, but Hounies, it looks really nice. :-)

Project 365: Day 102

Yes! My mattress was delivered today, and it's soooo comfy! And Greenfrog says "Hello, readers!"
More room photos to follow eventually. I haven't forgotten, JJJ.
Oh, but I think it's too tall. (The box spring makes it way too high!) Any suggestions?

Project 365: Day 101

This one is the real find of the day. It's a brass door-knocker with the JHU seal, and our Latin motto: Veritas vos Liberabit (the truth shall set you free). I find it's a nice follow up to Lux et Veritas. I found this at a neat consignment/antique shop where I also found the BEST GIFT EVER for my mother, which I cannot post here for obvious reasons. We also got lots of furniture, and my desk and office chair are being delivered this weekend.
We also saw tons of really ugly stuff, my favorite of which was far and away this awful couch/loveseat set.

Just in case you can't tell, this is a close up of the repeating pattern.

**Note: thanks to Thanh, my Latin has been corrected. :-)

Project 365: Day 100!!

Wow! It's hard to believe that this is the 100th photo post for the series. I dunno if my photography has gotten any better (if anything, I think it's gotten worse as I've gotten lazier!) but I have already documented a bunch of neat stuff that I wouldn't have photographed otherwise.

Of course, if I had realized, I would have done something more artful than this... oh well, at least this is honest. This is Dell House, where my department (and most humanities departmenst) have been relocated while Gilman Hall is being renovated. I've been promised that Gilman is gorgeous and old and beautiful and spacious, everything Dell House is not. It's really a charmless building, hastily (and barely) converted from a student apartment building into offices and a few classrooms. My German class also meets here; in the room on the first floor with the vertical blinds. I have spent more time here than any other JHU building (not counting my house), so it is a meaningful thing, at least...

Project 365: Day 99

 

This is part of central campus. It's beautiful, very Federal feeling. The style is very consistent but well executed, and the landscaping is wonderful. It's a lot more regular and rectangular than Yale, but I find it really pleasant. 

And of course, this is Star, the cat who owns the house I'm living in.

And here she is, reading Harry Potter 7 with me:

Project 365: Day 98

This is St. John's in the Village, and seems to be a very Anglo-Catholic church with plenty of money. Note the ladies in hats directly in front of me. I also declined to get into a theological argument with a guy who seemed determined to provoke me, so it seems that they're quite serious about their Jesus-ness.

Another striking thing about the church is that it is the absolute picture of wealth. Gorgeous 150 year old church, surrounded by an old cemetery and well-kept grounds, a big iron fence with a hydraulic gate. Of course, it is right across the street from, well, this:

Project 365: Day 97

Oh man! Farmer's Market!

Project 365: Day 96

Yeah, that's the Hon Cafe. Big hair, crazy accents, and a giant pink flamingo. There was an old couple eating in the window that would have made the best photo ever, but it would have been really rude of me to photograph them eating without talking to them first. Sigh!
Katherine and I also went to an auction in Hampden, which was crazy. Not only was the auctioneer hard to understand because she was speaking so fast, but also because she had the Bawlmer accent.

Katherine ended up buying some books, but I got outbid on the table I wanted. Oh well, it was still a lot of fun!

Project 365: Day 95

This is... the most, er, interesting bench I think I've ever seen. I found it while exploring Hampden, a neat neighborhood close to school. I also discovered many neat shops, restaurants, and the best liquor store ever. It sells a million kinds of beer and wine, as well as hard stuff, and has a whole section dedicated to cheese, chocolate, and french bread. I think I'm in love.

Project 365: Day 94

Today, I finally took the undergraduate admissions tour. I realized it was silly that I didn't know where basically anything was, but the tour spent a lot of time on things like freshman dorms and meal plans, and I just don't have to deal with or think about any of that. I did learn a lot of useful stuff-- namely that JHU gets a lot less famous people here than Yale does. :-) But the campus is pretty and very architecturally unified, which is nice. The quads are big and regular and grassy (and humid). Unlike at Yale, they're not full of bratty highschool kids who travel in giant packs. I did feel a little funny taking a tour from this girl; she was very nice but also not even a sophomore yet.

Oh yes. Also, there will at some point be photos of the house. I've been waiting until things are a little more put together. They're coming, I promise!!

Project 365: Day 93

Woo! I'm all official and stuff. (Of course, I hope you'll forgive my slight paranoia in removing some of the key info from the photo. I hope it doesn't detract from your enjoyment of my blog.) Fun fact: the red background on my photo identifies me as a graduate student. Another fun fact: you need to fill out a different form to get library priveledges added to your card. As if anyone *wouldn't* want them...

Project 365: Day 91

Today was the first day of class, and after that, Dad and I trekked out to the MVA (Maryland's version of the DMV). It took ALL DAY but my car is now registered and licensed and everything. Thank goodness!

Also, Dad brought me a sweet license plate frame: Go Cubs Go!

Project 365: Day 90

My dad and I went to Camden Yards to see a baseball game. It was really great! The game itself was hilarious; as you can see the final score was 18-10 Boston. Dad and I got to see something we've both been waiting a really long time for: a foul-pole homerun!!

Also, I really like the bench. They're all over the place, and they make me giggle.

Project 365: Day 89

Moving Day.

Project 365: Day 88

Ah. The last day in BHouse. :-/

Project 365: Day 87

Mad Men has been David and my obsession so far this summer. We counldn't manage to coordinate the watching of the last two episodes, so we watched them on our own. It was intense. And today was Mad Men Day. (Oh yes, also my last day at the library!! Bwahahahahaha!)

There's a feature on the AMC site where you can make a mad-men double of yourself. Of course, you can add cigarettes or drinks to your hands, and dress yourself in fabulous clothes, circa 1961.

Project 365: Day 86

My lovely ex-wife planned a lovely little get together at Richters to sort of celebrate and sort of mourn my immanent departure from New Haven. It was fun; half-price half-yards all around!!

Also, Bill took this AMAZING photo, which might be my favorite ever:

Project 365: Day 85

Tuesday night, we had a little pizza party at BHouse, my last big get-together in New Haven. As you can see, it was a great time all around. :-)

Project 365: Day 84

Ok, I apologize for the not-amazing quality of this photo. But it was not that easy to manage with any kind of decency. And, to top it off, it doesn't look anywhere near as bad now as it did this morning or last night. But that lower back sunburn is bad, and made sleeping a pretty tricky proposition. Not as difficult as this photo, though.

Project 365: Day 83

The crew, about to split up on Sunday morning. Happy birthday, Chris!

Project 365: Day 82

The swanky beach at Westhampton Dunes. I didn't get a shot of the bajillion dollar houses there, but let me tell you that I had no idea that there were people that rich.

Project 365: Day 81

A few of us ventured out to Long Island for Hudson's birthday, which meant taking the ferry from Bridgeport. Scenic Bridgeport above, scenic Port Jefferson below. Honestly, the thing that struck me most about Port Jefferson was the degree to which it was not Bridgeport.

Hurray!

I got my camera back just now, and it works! It only took 5 weeks to get it repaired. But it was a whole lot cheaper than buying a new camera, so that's good. That means that I'll start taking photos again today. Expect them to be up Monday or so, since I'll be out on Long Island for the weekend.

woo, sort of

Good news: my camera was finally shipped.
Bad news: I still don't have it.

Temporary photo-project hiatus

It is with great pain that I have to say that I am putting the Project 365 on a temporary hiatus. My nice camera is still in the shop (grr! They told me I'd have it by now! It's been there over a month!) I had been using my old camera, an ancient early digital. But it progressed from being a bit slow and clunky to eating batteries faster than Barry Bonds takes steroids to (also like Barry Bonds) being utterly uncooperative and a total jerk. It doesn't turn on much now, even with fresh batteries, and freezes like old operating systems when it bothers to turn on.
Thus, until my real camera comes back, I can not sustain a picture a day. Several days would have already have to be "cheats"; since AJ went back to Ithaca with his normally functioning camera, it's been very hard to make photos happen. I'll resume my day count when I have a working camera again, so you will still get 365 days of photos. (I know how worried you all were!)
You haven't missed much-- a few more dull photos of the library or my books, or of the near constant rain or thick clouds of fruit flies that have moved into BHouse. I'll be calling the camera place tomorrow and demanding my camera back, or that they replace it if they don't feel like sending it back to me.
Love,
Katie

Project 365: Day 80

Please notice the factory, the metro-north train and the baseball all in the same photo. Hurray for Bridgeport!

Project 365: Day 79

 

I made a pretty sweet dinner on Sunday-- homemade, hand-breaded chicken parmigian with homemade sauce! We also had a really incredible bottle of 2005 Italian chianti that I'd been saving for a special occasion, and it was fantastic. 

 

The cooking adventures of Sunday morning were somewhat less successful, though-- I mis-measured everything in the pancakes, adding 2/3 of a cup when I thought I was adding a half cup. The didn't turn out that badly, but AJ thought they made better masks than breakfast foods.