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229 years and counting, America
Jul. 4th, 2005 12:50 pmLaundry detergent: $4.19
Stain remover: $3.17
Laundry bag: $8.99
Total cost for using a washer and dryer in Weld Hall: $2.00
Being photographed lugging a gigantic bag with your roommate and her gigantic laundry bag by those crazy tourists in Harvard Yard because your dorm is too old to have laundry facilities: priceless
(I am being corrupted by advertising!)
In other words, my clothing doesn't seem to have shrunk or been dyed a different color. This is a good sign so far. I spent a good five minutes deciding whether or not I should put my clothes in the color or bright color cycle before pressing the button that I didn't mean to press.
I seem to have all sorts of mysterious bruises on my arms and on my left knee, so I look vaguely like somebody's been using me as a punching bag (in Ellie's own words). Perhaps I'm sleepwalking and bump into things in the night? Or maybe it's me being clumsy and randomly walking into things again without remembering what happened a few hours later, a more likely possibility.
I had lunch and dinner with my parents, and then we listened to the Pops starting with the 1812 Overture (why everyone is celebrating a Russian victory here, I don't know, but yay for a thawed Cold War!) and waatched the fireworks across the river. Danielle, lucky duck, got great seats at the Pops concert and had a spectacular view of the fireworks along the river. Did I mention that the conductor, Keith Lockhart, is actually pretty cute besides the fact that he has a really smooth conducting style? As much as I love him as a composer/conductor, Bernard Herrmann, on the other hand, looks a little like he's having a seizure if you watch him conduct "the Storm Clouds" in the remake of the Man Who Knew Too Much. Life is currently conspiring to mock me every time I'm in the Boston area by preventing me from seeing every single concert that John Williams, only one of the greatest living film composers, is conducting. I'm missing the Williams-conducted Pops concert as well as his Tanglewood session, and in April I also missed that concert that he conducted. It's a conspiracy, I tell you...
Stain remover: $3.17
Laundry bag: $8.99
Total cost for using a washer and dryer in Weld Hall: $2.00
Being photographed lugging a gigantic bag with your roommate and her gigantic laundry bag by those crazy tourists in Harvard Yard because your dorm is too old to have laundry facilities: priceless
(I am being corrupted by advertising!)
In other words, my clothing doesn't seem to have shrunk or been dyed a different color. This is a good sign so far. I spent a good five minutes deciding whether or not I should put my clothes in the color or bright color cycle before pressing the button that I didn't mean to press.
I seem to have all sorts of mysterious bruises on my arms and on my left knee, so I look vaguely like somebody's been using me as a punching bag (in Ellie's own words). Perhaps I'm sleepwalking and bump into things in the night? Or maybe it's me being clumsy and randomly walking into things again without remembering what happened a few hours later, a more likely possibility.
I had lunch and dinner with my parents, and then we listened to the Pops starting with the 1812 Overture (why everyone is celebrating a Russian victory here, I don't know, but yay for a thawed Cold War!) and waatched the fireworks across the river. Danielle, lucky duck, got great seats at the Pops concert and had a spectacular view of the fireworks along the river. Did I mention that the conductor, Keith Lockhart, is actually pretty cute besides the fact that he has a really smooth conducting style? As much as I love him as a composer/conductor, Bernard Herrmann, on the other hand, looks a little like he's having a seizure if you watch him conduct "the Storm Clouds" in the remake of the Man Who Knew Too Much. Life is currently conspiring to mock me every time I'm in the Boston area by preventing me from seeing every single concert that John Williams, only one of the greatest living film composers, is conducting. I'm missing the Williams-conducted Pops concert as well as his Tanglewood session, and in April I also missed that concert that he conducted. It's a conspiracy, I tell you...
