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We spent Tuesday through Friday in D.C.; I was there for a workshop (which was great), and Chad came with to make it a bit of a vacation. He wrote up the cultural part of the trip over at his blog—visiting the Sackler & Freer Museums, wandering the mall, and going to the Zoo. He also has a picture of the imperturbable mandarin ducks, and will be posting a few more. (When I have time, I'll go through my museum pictures and the rest of the zoo pictures and put them up, but I took a lot, so it won't be for a while. That's really the revolutionary thing about digital cameras, I think, the number of pictures you can take conveniently.)

Anyway, great trip, even though my brain refused to get out of post-vacation mode yesterday when I could really have used it.

In other news, we've picked a contractor to turn our garage into a library/office, thereby allowing us to use the current spare bedroom as a nursery and Chad's current office as a new spare bedroom. Floor-to-ceiling bookcases on two walls! And I've been feeling fetal movement for the last couple weeks, which is reassuring though occasionally weird—I never expected anything that feels like a water cooler sounds when it's refilling: "blurp, blurp." We have daycare visits and a fetal echocardiogram scheduled for this week.

Some more discussion sparked by those culturally-appropriating fake memoirs: [livejournal.com profile] rachelmanija on Memoir, Fiction, and Truth, and [livejournal.com profile] rushthatspeaks on Memoir and Honesty.

And some more links behind the cut, mostly food and cute:

Date: 2008-03-10 02:53 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] montoya.livejournal.com
Suddenly, "Gentoo Linux" makes more sense as a name.

Also suddenly, I am seized with prospective bookshelf envy. I guess maybe when we have as many books as you have, we can get nice bookshelves...

Date: 2008-03-10 03:47 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] missysedai.livejournal.com
I never expected anything that feels like a water cooler sounds when it's refilling: "blurp, blurp."


This gave me the giggles. Because it's TRUE.

Unlike the "Oh! It feels like butterfly kisses!" horseshit so many pregnant women spit out. Pregnancy IS weird. Weird can be fun.

Date: 2008-03-10 01:52 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] chomiji


Well, gosh, if I'd known you were in town, I could have at least waved in your general direction!



XD



I'm glad you enjoyed your trip, although the ideal time to visit us would have been 4 or 5 weeks later.


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