All of my New Orleans friends have awesome photos of Mardi Gras posted on Facebook. I looked at them longingly, thinking of how awesome it was when I went in 2010, right before I moved home. Dave received the following email and thought of me: He promptly made reservations when he saw me light up […]
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My brother came to visit this weekend, partly to see me but his trip conveniently coincided with Mardi Gras! He took a red-eye flight Wednesday night/Thursday morning, so I picked him up before work, gave him the grand tour of my place, handed him a pile of blankets and a pillow and told him there […]
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I love football season. I mean, I love baseball season but the two are different. There is something about the smell of football (shoulder pads, mixed with sweat, mixed with grass) that I love. I especially love it under the lights. I love baseball just as much, but in a different way. (I’m not sure […]
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Today I got home while the sun was still out. It was neat. Well, technically the sun wasn’t out, it was behind a lot of big puffy gray clouds. And it was hot today. Sprinkly and warm. Intriguing combination. It’s very typical down here. Also typical down here is the spelling of ‘go’. Maybe I […]
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I moved here to avoid cold. Just for the record. So imagine my surprise when I woke up and didn’t bother looking outside or watching the news for weather, and finding this: The funny thing that is that I woke up this morning and got all the way ready to go and walk out the […]
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I have a running list in my head of rad things I want to do in New Orleans but oddly enough, when asked recently how I wanted to spend my Sunday, all of them escaped me. Serves me right for not writing them down. Hence this post. And also, I’m trying to bring back the […]
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While I didn’t realize that it was an endangered food, after experiencing the Po’ Boy Festival yesterday, I am totally in favor of saving/preserving/eating them. After a brief stint of sleeping in Sunday morning, I did a little work and threw on some shoes (as per order of the text message I received: Po boy […]
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