Outpost 505

Today we’re heading into DC for the day before spending all day Sunday painting our apartment.  First up is brunch at Kramerbooks with my friend James, who I will be meeting for the first time.  Brunch looks pricey – come to think of it, we need to start blogging about brunches – but it includes [...]

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I feel like I should inform you, our beloved readers, that it took trips to FIVE grocery stores before we found soba.  To recap, we visited (in this order):

Trader Joe’s
OOD STAR (aka Food Star, the amazing IGA stand-in)
Asian Market (now known as Mercado Latino)
Shoppers (which we visited post-Dogfish Head Alehouse)
 Whole Foods (ta da!)

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After a lovely pork roast dinner last night and some time spent working on a puzzle, E and I wanted to hit the gym. It was 10:20 or so by then, so we only had about 40 minutes left before things shut down for the night. So we got dressed and headed into the elevator [...]

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Coming from Champaign, the sight of hipsters on bicycles is a familiar one.  Fixed-gears, cuffed up jeans, and hilariously modded bikes could be seen on any given afternoon spent in the downtown area.  SB and I fit right in with his fixed gear and my yellowbike, a hefty Kabuki road bike from the 70’s.  I [...]

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Last night SB and I decided that we didn’t feel like sitting around the apartment, so we picked up a puzzle at Target and decided to head out for a cup of coffee, a bite of dessert, and some quality puzzle time.  We made our way to Murky – only to discover (to our great [...]

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Our daily routine – at least until I start my new job – involves me driving SB to the Ballston Metro stop every morning, and picking him up from said Metro stop in the evening. On our drive to the Metro early last week we noticed a boot on the median when we went [...]

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I like to always take that extra time to pronounce Jazzman’s both ways when telling my out-of-town friends where I go for coffee on campus. (Pronunciation-type spelling here:) “Jasmine’s, you know, ‘Jazz Man’s’, get it?” Jazzman’s is a nice little coffee outpost in the Student Union 1 building basement, across the way from a tiny [...]

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I’m currently working from home in order to finish up some projects for my Midwest employer before I start my new fancee library job. Because isolation plus homesickness is a precise recipe for depression, I’ve been trying to spend at least half a day in coffeeshops or otherwise out in public. On Monday, [...]

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Shane and I are talking about going away for the weekend, and I spent some time tonight trying to figure out the closest destination where we could go see the ocean. I suspect we’ll settle for Chesapeake Bay and go to Annapolis, but we’re definitely thinking about a sweet weekend away in Chincoteague in [...]

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