Takoma Park house

Wow- check this out, it's kind of an amazing space: Beth & Bill's Souful Straw Retreat House Tour

We

This reminds me of what it's like when we hang out - - though I wouldn't want to impune this baby's hobby, as it is perhaps even more intellectual than saying "sophie ate the tofu khan" 75 times or making orgasm noises in a pile for the better part of a saturday night.

AHHHH!!!!!!

Whats going on? Did we decide for or against SMC reunion?
I would LOVE to come visit Ithaca. Although everything right now depends on me getting regular income (like Nicky!). I have an interview on Wed in Rockville at an Autism school....wish me luck!
Justin and I got back together, and I am moving to Frederick, just for this year.
Also, I bought a car on saturday!!!!!!!!!!!! But now I have car payments :( :( :(
which is scary because my job in Gburg will be cutting my already slim hours from 12 to 0 in the month of august! so most likely im going to find a table waiting job until something permanent likes me and i like it.
So, let me know about reunion weekend. At this point, I cannot afford to stay in a hotel and would rather save money for a trip to Ithaca later this summer. Or we can always go visit Nicky, Abby and my parents in the southwest at some point! that would be a really long road trip! Love you guys
xxx

Ithaca dating scene

Well, I guess you guys are going to get a really flattering impression of my late-night internet activities... haha. But seriously, really?! http://ithaca.craigslist.org/m4w/1742276585.html

(Becca, don't you dare!) <3

Music for the Far Away

For the most part, we're all pretty far away from each other. But we can still listen to the same music! :)

Priscilla Ahn - Dream
Corrine Bailey Rae - Girl Put Your Records On
(Saw Akron/Family at Quixote's in Denver the other night. They're doing alot of jam-bandy, experimental stuff right now. Reminded me of you guys! This is one of their mellower pieces and I love the chorus.)
Akron/Family - Love is Simple
The Go! Team - Milk Crisis
The Ruby Suns - There Are Birds

Happy Birthday Erica :)

Now you can rent a car! Exciting stuff, this getting older. We miss you!

Sometimes

when I'm standing in a club at like 4 am inhaling the smell of here, which consists of tobacco, leather and fernet, I get a mild stomach ache. Recalling that I strangely enjoy the smell of club-funk, I ponder the root of my nausea. Then I remember: it's the feeling of missing my people. Looking around a club whilst breaking it down chocolate-city style, I stare at the argentine wallflowers waiting for guys to ask them to dance so that they can have drinks bought for them and run their fingers through a head full of hair gel and tolerate a freakishly high rate of domestic violence. Fuck that. Everything is good about intelligent women in sweatshirts taking over a sleepy bar in ithaca, girls in steamy heels stepping it up at bar in a cornfield in st. mary's county, pantsuits and sundresses in miami, and the elegant pairing of MCS's long sleeve sweatshirts and my scarf-bangle combos conquering DC.

Thank you for being strong people. Thank you for having game. Thank you for doing what you want in life.

I can't even explain what it's like to be a feminist in Argentina.

Tears in my vino.

I wish I was going to a reunion with you guys, I long for the verdant fields and playful coastline of SMC and the company of each of you. Instead I shall get drunk enough to think the people here are funny.

vineyards shown: Alta Vista, Familia Zucchardi, Tempus Alba, Trapiche

further research:

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/28/dining/reviews/28wine.html

ET's Picks: Perpetuum's Torrontes, anything Rutini, Zucchardi Q, Alta Vista's Alto, Ben Marco's Malbec, Susana Balboa's Malbec, Ruca Malen's Malbec, Catena Zapata's Malbec (not the Alamos line, which is a good value but not particularly complex)

The lady who says...

"So we can get to the city!" reminds me of Liz. Not sure why, but that is all!

OH, wait, not all: Read Abby's post about reunions :)