Okay, here it goes. I was always a little threatened by RSS feeds, bloglines, all those tools for grouping frequently visited sites into one easily read feed page. It must be hard to set up, right? Anything that cuts your surfing time in half and wraps up sites into a nice, tighty little package, must take hours to assemble, or at least be so complicated that I would immediately be threatened by the techy vernacular. How pleasantly surprised was I to find that setting up bloglines was even easier than starting a blog?! Friends of mine who blog have had them for what seems like an eternity and I always said "well, I don't check that many blogs, so I don't really need them" But now with Library 2.0 taking place my blog viewage time has increased threefold. Which makes me all the more thankful that the bloglines were so easy to set up! Seriously, seriously love the bloglines. I can go to my feed page and within about 10 seconds check all new updates when before it took pry 10 minutes to go from blog to blog checking for new posts and inevitably getting caught up re-reading part of an old post and generally wasting time looking at something I had looked at before. Not any more! I'm a lean, mean, surfing machine! Oh, sorry, that was so bad, but it just came pouring out of my fingers onto the keyboard.
26.7.07
11.7.07
Fries To Die For
This was taken by our dear friends Ryan and Kelly who are the most talented photographers and some of the funniest people I have ever met. I took these pictures off of their Flickr account because they were kind enough to do a "professional" shoot with me and my honey when we were down there last. The apartment building behind us is the one we lived in our second year of marriage in Virginia. It's in the historic district of town, and although it wasn't the largest place we could have found, and there weren't many amenities, at $410 a month for two bedrooms, hardwood floors, and "charm" aka..a window in the shower, it was a good deal and we have some pretty interesting memories to look back on. There were sidewalks that meandered through the nicest neighborhoods in town. Big, old Southern mansions that were just breathtaking. Taking a walk through those neighborhoods after a stressful day of classes was always a great way to wind down. The apt. was accessible to local coffee shops, boutiques, and best of all right across the street from The Cavalier. home of the world's BEST fries. NO kidding. I get hungry just thinking about them. Big wedge cut fries with their own blend of seasoning salt and served with ranch (that's more of a Southern thing) Yummmm....we would grill out back of the apt and then run over to the Cavalier for a side of fries. well, I'm sufficiently hungry now. Why do I do that to myself?
9.7.07
A reluctant use of the word "home"
A couple of weeks ago, I went back to Lynchburg, Virginia for friend from college's wedding. A long drive, yes, but what a good excuse to visit not only the people I love, but familiar places, too. Restauarants, shopping, oh the shopping!, different houses and apartments I called my own for various stints of time, the schools I went to, the school where I taught, all hold nostlagic, meaningful memories. Even a street name can be enough to conjure up memories, when you've live somewhere your entire life. This was my second visit to "the Burg" as it has been dubbed, in the two years that I've been gone. So, there I am, enjoying people and places I haven't seen in nearly a year, and what are the nagging thoughts at the back of my mind? my garden, my horse, my dog, my husband (not in that particular order per say) my house, my job. All the pieces of life that make it interesting. and that's when I realized, I will always love The Burg and the memories I have there, but for now, "The Sound" is feeling more and more like home.