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August 28, 2005

Windows

Here you go, Grama! Hopefully you can find something to help these... (Click on either picture to make it bigger)

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August 27, 2005

O'Dells 6A

Welcome to my new room in Geneva, New York! It's much bigger than I expected, and it has a neat little hallway, and the closet is extra-extra large, so I'm very happy with my living situation this year. Plus, I'm in a condo-type unit, with a full kitchen (dishwasher included!), "dining" table, and a living room area, which is nice. I don't have any pictures of the common areas yet, because we still have a lot of decorating to do down there. But if you go to the top of the stairs, and take an immediate left, there I am! This picture is a view from my doorway. (Notice the illegally-hung coat rack, which is graciously on loan from Anna. It's not completely secure yet, because the screw on the left isn't long enough to grab the stud, but I'm working on that.)

And here's the main view of my room. Not too exciting, but do notice the nicely-colored lamp in the background. My desk is to the right of the camera at this angle. The furniture was arranged differently when I got here, so then I moved it all, and then I woke up this morning and decided to do even more furniture moving. But I think I finally got things the way I want them, so that's good.

Here's the view from my window. I'm not particularly excited about looking out onto a parking lot, but at least I'm not in one of the units that just looks into another unit's windows! This morning, there was a football game of sorts happening on that field, which was kind of confusing since Hobart has a really nice field about 100 meters away...

So that's it! I hope that most of you can get over here to see the condo for yourselves! I'll post more pictures of the rest of the place as soon as we get some things organized and decorated.

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August 23, 2005

Urban Adventure

A few weeks ago, my father and I competed in the second annual Urban Adventure here in Burlington. Finally, RunVermont.org has posted some photos from the event, so I decided it was probably about time to write a post on our experience. If you've seen The Amazing Race on TV, you're probably somewhat familiar with the general concept: we were given about a dozen clues that led us to various checkpoints around Burlington. The distance between each clue was no more than two miles, and you were allowed to use any resources to solve the clues (yes, even the internet), provided your resource-checker wasn't working for another team. It must have looked pretty funny, because there were about 40 people running around Burlington with race numbers on, cell phones glues to their ears, and books in their hands they were attempting to read while sprinting across city streets.

Considering that we ran about 15 miles without any training, my father and I did remarkably well. I'm actually really impressed with my father, because he hadn't done any sort of training since the marathon, and he was keeping up with Miss I-Workout-Two-to-Three-Hours-A-Day. Probably the most annoying part of the race was right at the end, because the final clue couldn't be found anywhere online. Poor Karl and Becca were at my dad's house online, frantically trying to find out how many trains passed through Burlington on an annual basis in the early 1900s. They were even calling historical societies, but to no avail. Finally, we found the answer on a plaque on the opposite side of the train station, but now without about 10 minutes of frantic searching. Overall, we came in third with a time of 2:44:02, and we had the third-fastest orienteering time. More importantly, though, we had tons of fun, and we're definitely planning on an even more competitive time next year.

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