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The Schools Project
June 18th, 2010My brother, who just finish his Masters Degree in education, is leaving the country (again) to travel to Africa and Nepal for a year. In between climbing lots of rocks, he’s planning on visiting a variety of educational institutions during his trip in order to…well, I’ll just let him explain it himself.
I can’t believe he’s leaving again. It seems like he just got back from the Peace Corps yesterday.
(and yes, he is totally one of those do-gooder-type people who wants to make the world a better place while the rest of us obsess over the real estate market).
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365: 2010.03.27 (berkshires weekend)
April 4th, 2010Last weekend I went up to the Berkshires for our Passover Seder, which we rescheduled for everyone’s convenience to Sunday night (Passover started at sundown on Monday). On Saturday, we didn’t do too much, but we did go for a walk around the neighborhood. And then I watched our dog, Oliver, spend hours attempting to fit a basketball into his mouth. You’d think after 11 years he’d have figured out that it’s just not going to work, but he keeps trying.
Oh, and apparently everyone in my family really likes orange. Not pictured is myself, wearing orange-framed sunglasses. At least we’re ready for hunting season.
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365:103 (surrealist games)
December 13th, 2009another oddity bought at the tate modern back in 2001
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365:93 (bus)
December 2nd, 2009I’ve run out of random things on my desk, so I’ve moved on to my overwhelming collection of refrigerator magnets. This one was picked up during one of my many work-related trips to London – after a week and a half of all-nighters, we finished our deal, got about 12 hours of sleep, and then had almost an entire day to waste in London before our late-in-the-day flight back to NY. We hit all of the big spots – we actually ended up watching a huge procession at Buckingham Palace in honor of a state visit by the Chinese government, but no one had a camera. So I bought this magnet at Harrod’s to commemorate the trip.
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365:90 (horizon from 30,000 feet)
December 2nd, 2009shot this out the plane window on the way home from houston.
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365:89 (married!)
December 2nd, 2009Caryn, one of my best friends from high school, married Simon on Saturday.
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365:88 (rocking chairs)
December 2nd, 2009The Hartford airport has one of the simplest good ideas I’ve seen in some time for an airport.
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365:85 (current)
November 24th, 2009For 365 group theme day "current". These are just the chargers and wires that I need for the cornucopia of electronic devices that I can’t seem to travel without. assembled while packing for this weekend’s ridiculous 5 day trip that will encompass both western Massachusetts for thanksgiving and Houston, Texas for a wedding.
And to think, thanks to the iphone, this is relatively tame compared to what it used to look like when I had a separate cellphone, ipod and work blackberry.
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Random update
November 23rd, 2009I haven’t done a non-photo related post in some time, but I just finished my latest book while sitting in the cafe at barnes and noble, and was reflecting on how nutso this week is going to be.
First, the travel. As always for thanksgiving, I’m heading to the berkshires to hang with family. Except, instead of staying through Sunday as I would normally do, I’m flying to Houston on Friday, because one of my oldest friends is getting (re)married down there on saturday. And then i’m flying back to NY on Sunday. Of thanksgiving weekend. I’m thinking it’s a good thing I don’t have a job I’ll need to actually get to on Monday.
Actually, that’s about it for my nutso week, now that I think about it. Although apparently my brother is sick with something that may be the flu (swine or otherwise) and is only finally going to the doctor because my dad convinced my brother’s girlfriend to drag him there. Or an emergency room. I’ll have to call him later to check on him. I’m not going within 100 feet of him though, because I’m pretty sure that swine flu makes a pretty crappy wedding present.
I’ll return to photoblogging later with a post about the book I just finished, but I left the jacket at home so I can’t photograph it yet.
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the NY Times travel section is stalking me…
May 8th, 2009not really, but this is definitely weird.
A few years ago, I thought it was incredibly fortuitous timing that they published a travel article on spending the weekend in Paris mere days before I went to Paris. crazy, convenient coincidence, right?
But now it’s just getting creepy. I’m going to Philly next weekend for my 10-year law school reunion, and what do they publish this morning? Yep…36 hours in Philadelphia.
In all seriousness though, I’m not sure why they thought it was a good idea to encourage people to visit philadelphia in mid-may, which is the height of graduation/reunion frenzy. The few remaining hotels that aren’t booked solid are probably either incredibly sketchy or have super-exorbitant prices. But I’ll probably print out the ideas on the off-chance that I’ve got some downtime somewhere in my reunion-weekend schedule.
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