Hey all, Just thought I’d blog on the Tour de France. I love it! And am sad it is over for the year. I’m so not a sports player or watcher, but the Tour’s got me hooked! I used to love the Olympics – that was the only sports I ever watched and I watched…
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photos: poorer NY, uptown a block or so over from Riverside Drive; wealthier NY, Broadway around 115th street or thereabouts Wednesday in New York… This was my Coney Island day, which I ended up doing on my own. Solita had an interview (not that her interviewee showed up or anything…) in the afternoon so couldn’t…
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Hi all, I’m spending my last day upstate tomorrow – meeting Linda, editor of Alfred Hitchock’s Mystery Magazine, in Manchester, VT tomorrow and then bussing it to NYC. I will visit with Albert, Lucia’s cousin and an old high-school acquaintance, stay with my cousins and then fly home for a long, long, long time on…
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Photos: the view across the resevoir in Central Park and a shot of Broadway, somewhere around 110/115th St. Well, I still don’t remember what happened on Monday. So, I’ll just move on to Tuesday. On Tuesday, Solita and I went to the Met (Metropolitan Museum of Art). We may also have gone to breakfast, or…
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Well, you haven’t heard from me in a week because Solita’s computer wouldn’t start up and the techie didn’t know how to fix it. Then I was in Pittsburgh visiting my aunt. She doesn’t own a computer. Finally I am at my parents’ house in upstate New York, with a slow computer and slow Internet….
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I am now no longer a karaoke virgin. Solita and I met up with Amanda and friends at the Milk Bar in East Village where Allan and I used to live. It was funny because we always wondered what that place was, with its black curtained windows with white half-mannequins placed around. It is a…
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Swing dancing last night was awesome! I presume the dance was in the studio where all the classes happen and it was an amazing space of light hardwood floor and mirrors. Yet I still was able to not watch myself dance. I asked probably about 10 different guys to dance. The dancing here is so…
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So I did indeed meet Louisa at 5.00 yesterday. We had dinner at my favourite NY restaraunt – Khyber Pass – which serves wonderful Afghani food. I felt very good about my dinner because we shared an appetizer and one dish and didn’t even finish the dish, when usually I eat a whole main myself….
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Well, I’ve just lost my whole blog, so here’s a summary of what I wrote – $3.00 enormous aluminum dish of rice and red beans on Sunday were awesome – two evenings of dinner/dessert, candles and great conversation on the porch with Solita – all you can drink free wine at a Chinese restaraunt with…
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I usually write my travels out on paper to transcribe when I’m back home, but I like the idea of blogging this trip instead. I am beautifully happy to be in New York. There is nowhere else I’d rather be right now. I was so excited to get off the plane in NYC that I…
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Michelle and I got to meet Erin – founder www.donotbequiet.com, lip contributor and PrettyUgly contributing editor – last night while she is in Canberra for a conference. I had a great time gabbing away with another loud North American (she’s Canadian). She also brought us some of her awesome feminist and lefty buttons, so you…
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I have a friend who is in a wheelchair. I just came back from going to the movies with him. In order to get into the cinema he has to walk agonisingly slowly down two flights of stairs while I carry the wheelchair down. An empty wheelchair. It used to be me and someone else…
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Hey all, Just got back from seeing Limony Snickett at the ANU. It was great! I came away thinking, especially after the awesome animation of the closing credits, how much love went into that film. Clearly the director had a vision and was prepared to put in every little detail to make it right. It…
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Hey all, Well, we’ve been slack with the blogging. But in my new and improved life, I should have more time to blog. But maybe not. Just before Easter I quit one of my jobs – the admin position at the ANU. I did this because I was constantly feeling overwhelmed, unhappy and like I…
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