There is not much funnier to me than pranking the restaurant where I work and making an eleven-person reservation for 9:45 on a night when they have no tables and the not-as-cute Polish girl who doesn't speak that good of English picks up the phone.
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Elle is back. Hopefully for good this time. She's one of my favorite bloggers - an incredible writer and mom in Baltimore City. And I should know she's a good mom, since I taught her kid - and the kid's a special one, as I reminded when I ran into her at school yesterday. A senior now... wow, that's hard to believe. I taught her in the ninth grade during my second year of teaching and it seems like yesterday in many ways.
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My new debit card was declined at Trader Joe's today. Pretty embarrassing. I hadn't used it yet, but had been sure to activate it. The PIN number comes separate from the card and came today, and I had that right. I also have money in the account, so everything on my end was alright. it made me mad. I called card services and they referred me to the credit union, but not before telling me a bad batch of new cards had recently been sent out and mine might be one of them. The credit union was closed despite it being 4:48. How can banks get away with closing before 5? So, no groceries. I'm eating almonds and canned spinach for dinner because the debit card is also the ATM card. I could go with a veggie burger if I wanted to, but I've had one a day now for every day of the summer and don't think I want to do two in one day after having one for lunch already.
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I did something to my ankle - twisted it, or maybe just strained it somehow - by sitting on it wrong and now my running is all messed up. I've been elipticaling it for a week now and it's just not the same as running. Plus it's getting boring. Tomorrow I'm going to swim and hopefully loosen up my muscles a little bit. Sometime before the sex with Jennifer Aniston dream last night, I had a dream about the ocean, where I'm going next week at Nag's Head in North Carolina's outer banks. I dreamed the water was very warm and I swam in it for hours. In reality, I'm a pretty weak swimmer and am a little scared of it because of all the serious problems with my eyes and minor problems with the ears in recent years. And the pool at the gym is always full of little kids who I don't want to deal with when I'm trying to get my workout on. But tomorrow I'm going early since I work at the restaruant and hopefully it will be kid free.
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On the competitive softball team I'm on for the Herring Run league, I think I'm in danger of losing my #5 spot in the lineup. After a home run in the first game, I had another game today of not hitting the ball hard once. I did have a bloop single to right field that scored a run, and fielder's choice that scored a run, and then scored a run later on a ball that was a fielder's choice, so I wasn't totally unproductive. But I'm not feeling comfortable up there, which is a bummer because I crushed the ball last night during my non-competitive softball league game. I think I get it into my head to hit to right field, and the end up being weak grounders to second base.
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What in the heck are they doing to Lake Montebello? Anyone know? I was going to take pictures sometime today but forgot and now it's too dark. Lot of work going on there, though, like they're tearing out all the cattails and marsh grass so you can see the lake from the track. Or maybe they're doing it for non-aestetic reasons. I'm not sure. They've just made this strange parking lot for taxi cabs on the west end of the lake, and I don't understand that at all either.
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I cannot wait for the Rafael Palmeiro press conference later this week. Rumors are swirling that the Orioles are going to release him, and that will be interesting as well - although I am looking forward to seeing how the crowds at Camden Yards and around the league react to him when/if he does return.
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CD of the week is Wilco's Being There. Great album. Like Radiohead, I prefer the early version of that particular band, before they got all arsty fartsy. I also have really have songs 4 and 5 ("Faithful" and "Testify") of Common's CD Be and can't stop playing them. The album's not as good as the hype, but it's pretty darn good. Update: I've just put Boys for Pele in and wow, I miss the old Tori Amos.
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Juliana Hatfield plays Friday at the Mojo Lounge. I haven't decided for sure if I'm going, but I should, because I always miss her when she's in town for whatever reason. But I don't really want to spend any money so I'm going to see if any of my connections can get me on the guest list. I can't believe she's playing at such a small venue but I guess when you haven't had a hit single in ten years that's what happens. I saw her live once in Detroit in around 1997 and then again in Pontiac in 1998 and haven't seen her since. But I think I have all of her CDs and still dig her pissed off lyrics, saccarine vocals, angry crunchy guitars, and poppy melodies. Anyone want to go? I think I need a motivator.
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I can't believe how much free time I have right now. It's really pretty ridiculous. I'm trying to remain useful, but instead I blog or surf the Internet or watch Tigers games or hang around school or sit at Barnes and Noble and read. Tomorrow at least I work at the restaurant so that will use up eight hours of the day. This is another reason I don't like to have two months off in the summer. I'd kill for this sort of time in, say, the end of October or the end of April (two furiously busy times teaching), and would much rather the time off be spread out. I'm ready to get back; the batteries are recharged and the brain rested.
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Lake Montebello is getting "renovated." They are going to FINALLY repave the road, cut back the greenery, dredge and possibly drain the lake, and put up a new black iron fence around the lake on the grass. If you have a Baltimore city recycling calendar the projected completion image is featured in the month of July. If they drain the lake you should definitely go and watch one day. There's always interesting things lurking on the bottom of the lake. The last time they drained it, over 40 years ago, they found a '57 Chevy with two skeletons in the front seat.
Be careful at the Outer Banks beaches. Many are private and do not have lifegaurds. I was there in June and there were some pretty nasty rip tides; one of which snagged my cousin. She was fine, but it scared the hell out of her regardless. The water is warm though and, on calm days, you can stay in for hours!
neighbor girl: thanks for the info. do you know anything about the new taxi parking lot that's there? is there a timetable for completion of the project?
bethany: thanks for the heads up.
Technnically the parking lot is for construction vehicles and will later be for recreational lake users, I have no idea why it's filled with taxi cabs.
The whole project is scheduled to be done in time for summer 2006 (the city originally said spring '06 but I'm being a little liberal since it's the city, realistically they will still be plugging away into winter of '06). Included in the mayhem is repair of the Harford Rd bridge. If you need to go over to 33rd from the hood I'd suggest Argonne to Hillen and cutting over to 33rd of off Hillen past Mervo (the tech school).
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