Monday, June 27, 2005


i just want to take a second to direct you all to this story that ran in the Connecticut Post yesterday. this is my friend dan, who spent the greater part of the past year battling hodgkins lymphoma. through everything, he kept the biting sarcasm and sense of humor that make dan dan and make us all love him. i'm in awe of what he's gone through and how he's handled it all.

on october 15th, there's going to be an american cancer society relay for life event in windham, at the ECSU campus baseball facility. anyone who's interested in participating, please let me know--i'm looking to organize a team. you all have plenty of time to get the weekend free, so no excuses! i want the biggest, ass-kickingest, fundraisingest team they've ever seen! hoo-ah! who's with me?

Thursday, June 23, 2005

i am a bad, bad blogger...for shame! i was being all good about posting, and then whammo! i drop out of sight. a recap of the past two weeks...

saw my friend dan last weekend, who i hadn't seen since last fall before he started his chemo (which he is now done with, yay hooray!). had some kick-ass sushi, told bad jokes, watched tombstone. it was good to see dan; it was the first time we'd hung out since mike and i broke up, and i'm am very happy to say that it wasn't awkward at all. yay for good friends...

my little baby brother graduated high school last night. graduated. high school. egad! when on earth did that happen?

official and concrete plans for dana's next visit! the ticket is bought, let the countdown begin ;) (uh, that'd be three weeks and five days). i can't wait!

i submitted an abstract for a wetlands conference in october, so if it gets accepted, i'll be doing a presentation on my research for a whole buttload of people. scary scary! but exciting, too...

okay, i'm beat. i don't know what's up with me the past few days, but i'm incredibly tired. so i'm going to bed. i promise i'll try to be better about the updates...

Thursday, June 09, 2005

it is so. hot. and. humid. blargh.

yesterday was wednesday, which means last night was craft night with the ladies! had four people over, and we layed out a big blanket on the grass in the yard, and i grilled on my cute little ikea charcoal grill. we drank beer, ate burgers and pasta salad, knitted, and crocheted. (actually, i didn't knit or crochet a darn thing. i just plain didn't feel like it. but i *did* cook, so that ought to count for something).

this weekend i'm driving up to lake placid to visit with lisa and chad in their yurt :). should be fun; i've never been that far upstate before. but first, i have to mow up at the wetland tomorrow morning, which is a royal pain in my butt. :P

FYI: rob's band is playing the main stage at the webster in hartford on july 9th. they played at toad's place in new haven a few weeks ago, too...not bad venues for a band of high schoolers. rock on, little brother!

Monday, June 06, 2005

back from arizona...

what an incredible trip :). since the last update: friday afternoon, dana took me up to flagstaff where we had dinner at the flagstaff brewing company. then we drove up to the lowell observatory and looked at jupiter through the huge clark telescope. saturday morning, we got up early and drove up to the grand canyon, which was enormous and beautiful and breathtaking. dana covered my eyes and led me right up to the edge before he'd let me open them, which was an awesome way to see it for the first time. then we bbq'd with some of dana's friends saturday night, and i left bright and early sunday morning (boo!). you can see pictures here. (and yes, jim, there was a capybara at the the san diego zoo; i just didn't get a picture of it).