too much to say,
too little time. in fact, i'm headed out to where there are no phones, no internet, no email until august 7th. don't expect a post right away, but there will be spectacular photos shortly there after.
Friday Night Fun
Friday night my fellow interns and I may have had the best night in Anchorage that we've had yet. We asked our bosses where we ought to take the engineering interns to impress upon them that architects, well, we know how to party [I have found that generally this is a true statement and that groups of architects tend to drink more and laugh more than any other group of people I've ever spent time with]. At any rate we decided to make a whole night of it, and told them of our plans.
We changed our plans right from the start. We got off work at five and the three of us were hungry. The engineers didn't get done until six, but we decided to head to this little Mexican place anyway. The food there was good, even by the standards of folks who live around a lot of Mexicans, like us. We got to chat with the daughter of the folks that run the place, she tried to pull the tent covering us in the yard over, and we were pretty sure that she was going to try and sit with us and eat our tortilla chips, but she never got the guts to sit down.
After a filling our bellies, the engineers called to cancel on us so we packed up and hiked across downtown a little way to the Hilton where we proceeded to ride a scary elevator [the door tended to open before it actually finished moving]. There's a restaurant on the 15th floor of the hotel and they have an open deck on which you can sit and enjoy expansive views of the inlet, the Cugach Mountains and all of the city of Anchorage. They also had live music, a quartet of middle aged folks who played a mixture of swing and jazz music. They also served fantastic drinks, including the Moose Juice [a mixture of banana liquer, crème de cacao, vanilla vodka and cream] and the Glacier Lemonade [orange vodka, lemonade, blue curaco and perhaps something else] which were no more expensive than the margaritas, etc we had drunk the week before.
After two drinks each we walked down the street to the Snow Goose to sit on their deck where we each had a cranberry and vodka and warm mixed berry crisp with vanilla ice cream. We did a lot of people watching, a lot of laughing, and a lot of reveling in being in the sun. We watched people on dates, guys dressed in denim shorts courting women dressed to show off a large amount of cleavage, women with giant hair courting men who looked uncomfortable to be in public. We also laughed, a lot. We decided to head back to our place in time to catch the 11pm bus [the last bus on Friday night] and basically had everyone at the bus stop move away from us because we were laughing so much. I believe the source of the funny was the potential to screw up our potential children.
On our way home we saw the most beautiful sunset, the sky was streaked with amazing, vivid reds and purples, painted in wide streaks. It also reflected down into the lakes and there were people sitting at the edges of the water, just watching. The mountains were also stained around the edges with hints of crimson, and had we not been on the bus I would have tried to capture it with my camera. Speaking of which, has anyone else ever noticed how incredibly hard it is to photograph a sunset because the photo never looks like it feels to be in that moment?
If I Wasn’t in Love Before…
I am now. I love Alton Brown of Good Eats fame and I love his blog; Rants and Raves. However, I love him even more for posting this on the 11th:
Dear Tom Cruise,
Your lack of belief in the existence of clinical depression tells me one thing: you didn't spend $10. to see War Of The Worlds. If vitamins can possibly help me out of this spiraling funk, please let me know which ones. Dinos? Pebbles? Freds?
Please, I'm crying out for help.
Alton Brown
I could pee, that's so funny.
what a difference
Is it really friday again already? Last friday we had the day off because we work longer hours for the rest of the pay period, and when we got moving it was smoky, due to forest fires on the Kenai penisula. So we went to see batman begins to get away from the smoke. It was an excellent movie as I'm sure everyone already knows. Today, its lightly cloudy, cool, and I have a big deadline at work. Wheee! so here's the i-have-a-big-deadline-today edition of the friday random ten:
get your funk on - george clinton
here and now - luther vandross
sigh of relief - brooks west
its not my birthday - they might be giants
every angle - ani difranco
maybe i know - they might be giants
american gigolo - weezer
someday - the strokes
on my way - string cheese incident
taxi ride - tori amos
I can’t have the caffeine, you know, because of my anxiety.
I have had entries that want to be posted for almost a week now. However, this is what my schedule looks like on most weekdays:
6a: Get up, shower.
6:15a: Get dressed, do hair.
6:45a: Pack lunch
7a: Leave to walk to bus stop to catch bus.
7:15-7:20a: Get on bus.
7:35-7:45: Get off bus, walk to office
8am: Start work
Noon: Lunch break, go to second floor to get a coke.
1pm: Back at my desk
6pm: Leave office, walk to bus stop.
6:15-6:20: Get on bus
7pm: Arrive home.
7pm-8pm: Make and eat dinner with other interns
8pm-9pm: Knit, talk, hang out, unwind
9pm-10pm: Talk to TheBoy
10pm: Sleeps!
As you see there is not a lot of wiggle room and I can't blog from work. I'll try to get something up soon.