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I am now half done with #58!  I just finished Hemingway’s A Moveable Feast this weekend, and absolutely loved it. For being such a bookworm, I’m a little embarrassed to admit that I’d previously only ever read portions of Hemingway. So after finishing A Movable Feast I put holds on 5 more of his books [...]

Despite the torrential downpour on Sunday, I had a great time at Bumbershoot! The upside of the crappy weather, was fewer lines everywhere.  I seriously have no excuse for not going to Bumbershoot previously, and I think I’ll be making the yearly trek up to Seattle. Highlights: Christian Lander’s Stuff White People Like — fun [...]

I’m so excited for Bumbershoot next weekend!  This will be my first year of Bumbershoot (I went to Austin City Limits festival in 2003, and have been swearing that I’ll make it to Bumbershoot “this year” ever since.) 10 day weather forecast for Seattle: 40% chance of rain and in the 70s — but I’m [...]

Two years later, and I’ve finally finished watching the Top 100 Grossing Films of All-Time! I had already seen 68 of the 100, so I averaged about one movie every three weeks. While I’ve enjoyed more of the movies from Ebert’s 102 Movies You Must See list, watching the top 100 grossing gives you an [...]

This 101 Things in 1,001 Days goal was originally to volunteer with the Big Sister program, but the gist of the goal was just to volunteer. I ended up choosing S.M.A.R.T. — Start Making a Reader Today — based here in Portland. SMART partners with Oregon schools to help kids “discover the joy of reading.” [...]

I wasn’t invited to my 10-year high school reunion! WTH (H is a nicer word than F, but not nearly as much fun to say)  I’m crossing this off my 101 Things in 1,001 Days list anyway because of: extenuating circumstances — such epic words, no? So I’m guessing it wasn’t too big of an [...]

My first time sailing — the Whitsunday Islands in Australia — I didn’t actually learn much, since it was a 3 day backpacker trip on an 82 foot maxi racing yacht. I did however, fall in love with sailing and sleeping on a boat was pretty cool. My second sailing experience was in Greece. The [...]

#57 on my 101 Things in 1,001 Days List was to read all of Seth Godin’s books. I was already about halfway done, when I added this to my list, but then he just kept on writing books! Give a girl a break, and let me catch up! ;) If you’re unfamiliar with Godin, he’s [...]

I’ve been considering going vegan for a while (and #67 on my 101 Things in 1001 Days list is:  Go vegan for 1 month).  So I decided to go vegan for a week instead.  Being vegan isn’t that much of a change for me since I’m already a vegetarian, but it’s slightly more inconvenient.  The [...]

It had been a few years since I updated my portfolio/resume website.  I had let the hosting expire, only keeping the domain.  So I’ve now changed the DNS and pointed it at a blogger site to keep things simple (and cheaper).  Most of the free templates were either too simple, but not clean design or [...]