June 2008 Archives

"i just moved here and you look nice."

boston.subwaycrush.com

the pink and blue project

[via designboom]

what did people do before youtube?

oh, right. read books.

i finished brideshead revisited and i've just begun middlemarch.

also i love this: thingsyoungerthanmccain.com

on friday afternoon katharine chu and i explored mount auburn cemetery, the first landscaped cemetery in america or something like that. it is pretty gorgeous. the cherry on top, though, was being rewarded with a totally unexpected view of the cambridge/boston cityscape after a hot and exhausting climb to the top of washington tower [i think it said on a plaque that there were 97 steps, added on to climbing to the top of the hill that the tower is on].

i found a picture here of the view of boston, but friday was a much clearer day. there's a video on youtube that doesn't do it justice either, but gives you an idea.

wish i had brought my camera.

on saturday, kf, pr, & i took a leisurely walk down memorial drive to the cambridge river festival. we walked around, sipping on lemonade squeezed right before our very eyes, scored free chips and honey bunches of oats and burts bees line smoothing eye creme ['now get all the youthful without the yuck'], and expressed ourselves with sidewalk chalk. we also saw a man's checkered-shorts-covered butt get squeezed right in front of us. gross.

and i had a delicious twist cone with rainbow sprinkles.

instead of thin spaghetti vs regular spaghetti, this time it was whether i should choose to read the 1951 nancy mitford translation of the princess of cleves or the 1892 perry translation recently revised by john lyons. i went with the latter, but really i wish i could read french.

also i want to read this.

are useful for crying clandestinely on public transportation.

whoever came up with long distance relationships was DUMB.

also. yesterday rian and i installed vmware fusion and windows xp (both free from mit!!) on my new macbook so that now i can watch netflix online whenever i want. sweeeeeet.

clifton and i knew this picture was being taken, so while still trying to act candid he corrected his posture and i made sure i was smiling. fallon had no idea and got mad at us for not alerting her.

but i think we all look beautiful anyway.