can'tstopwon'tstop

According to Josh, "the most important landmark in Boston" is this Citgo sign:
artist, Cassie Jo Cleary:

The belltower in which Paul Revere signaled one if by land and two if by sea:

Looking out the window of the oldest bar in America:

Look at all these 21st Century folk eschewing the all those old fashioned reference books in favor of the World Wide Web (even though using those books would require using that cool ladder!):

inside the Boston Public Library:

same thing:

goto

I was going to write about the "show" we saw in NYC, but then Cassie did. Articulately and eloquently. So I don't feel the need to anymore.

I've also been planning on writing some long, boring post about the purpose of travel. It occurred to me when we were wandering around in the Guggenheim that we spend a lot of time and money going places to use our eyes on new, cool stuff. And not just our eyes, I know. We also use our noses, ears, fingers, and tongues on new, cool stuff. And pretty much that's why we travel? I don't think so. But I really don't feel like writing any further since I'm already painfully aware of how dumb I'm making myself out to be right now.

Also, we're probably not going to Delaware now, so I won't have a chance to post this video clip and write, "Hi. I'm in Delaware." unless I do so now.

explanation

In a paper on Josh's coffee table I found this sentence:

In reality, we're only as free as our genes are pliable in the slosh of our developmental milieus.

AAAAAhahahahahahahaha.

Eff teaching!

A friend asked me to be a reference for him for a job he's applying for, and I gladly agreed. Today, I got an email from the prof doing the hiring. I've just to answer a series of questions about him to the best of my ability. Pretty standard, except for:

19. Is the applicant in good health and good physical shape? (The job
requires a lot of cliff-climbing, long hikes, squeezing through tight
barbed wire fences, fording rivers, and rapid chasing of monkeys over
rough terrain.)

20. Do you think that the applicant is excessively macho? Is s/he likely
to be applying for this position primarily to have swashbuckling adventure
stories to tell back home, or because of a genuine intellectual
fascination for the evolution of social behavior?

Um, this sounds like the coolest job ever. Unfortunately, I'm probably not qualified due to my desire for swashbuckling adventure stories. Seriously, who doesn't crave swashbuckling adventure stories?

Grand Junction, what are you thinking?

Oh my gosh.

A few days ago Josh emailed me to tell me about some goofy signs that have been posted around his hometown, Grand Junction, Colorado since his last return. This morning, I got a photo:

In case you can't get a good look at the list of sponsors at the bottom, they are the City of Grand Junction, United Way, Grand Valley Coalition for the Homeless, Grand Valley Catholic Outreach, Downtown Grand Junction, Mesa County, the City of Fruita, and the Town of Palisade.

I mean, I understand that giving someone a dollar is not likely to make a significant change in her or his life, but is that image a little harsh? I think yes. What exactly are the intentions of this campaign? Seems pretty jerk-ish to me.

!!!!!!111

I'm so excited right now. Josh posted recently about the kitchen fiasco that I mentioned before that, aside from being maddening, is pretty hilarious. And I'm so glad he did, because his friend directed his (and my, as a faithful Josh-reader) attention to www.passiveaggressivenotes.com.


I mean, seriously. That is good stuff. You can even browse their entries by categories like "CAPS LOCK," "spelling and grammar police," and "exclamation-point happy!" What could be funnier?


I love it.

GRE vocab word of the day: ambivalent

Recorded some video at work today. Here's some of it:

Raneicia and Alonzo playing with magnets

Jermayne writing and reading a story about Jermayne.

And my favorite,

"Oh! You can't be doin' that junk on her phone!"

A little while before we started playing with the cameras, one of the kids told me all about how he stays with his aunt now, (and his eight brothers and sisters, and his cousins,) because his mom has been in jail in Montgomery for seven years. He's nine.

Josh had a jarring experience today. Spending so much time hanging out and having fun with these kids makes it almost harder for me to really get some of the shit they deal with.