he sent a picture of the cactus. it looks like mickey mouse with 4 arms.

it snowed and iced here just in time for it not to be a work day anyway. i am angry!

Not fair!

lady i am really pissed off on your behalf. it’s outrageous!

so windy. so so windy.

by the time i went to bed on thursday, there had been 4.5 inches of snow, 1/2 inch of graupel, then another 1.5 inches of snow. a branch fell off a tree in my yard, which knocked a lilac tree over. crazy few days.

we lost at pub quiz last night :( BUT! we agreed to try again next week.

i keep having dreams/daydreams about seattle but also thinking on the drive to work (out of city) “i love baltimore so much”

you guys just seemed to have such amazing grocery shopping and trees and food

come back soon, we have lots more grocery shopping to show you. had we known, we could’ve spent your entire visit going from market to market. there are many amazing ones you didn’t see!

also more trees.

it’s true, they do!! xpost

and good people <3

hey, have you guys filled out the library’s survey? i love that they are soliciting user feedback!

http://www.spl.org/about-the-library/libraries-for-all/lfa-plan/share-your-thoughts

Amanda Knox should go to Miami. She can get Latin man in Miami. why Italy? or She can go to Georgetown area near boeing field. She can meet Latin man there. haha why Italy? She needs to chec mapqwest because Italy is not the only county that awesome but there are others.

fancy a pint y/n

jealous? y/n

i invited u!

Y!!!

Y!

ps to tehersa: it’s not too late!!!

;_;

seattle, will you be my valentine? i <3 you.

YES YES ALSO PLEASE COME BACK DEAR TEHRESA

<3 some day we’ll be together again!

we went out w/mookieproof! it was fun. i already knew he was awesome, but god damn he and his friends are funny together. poutine+beer+talktalktalk=goodtimes

<3 mookie, thanks for being here!!

^^^these ppl <3

feel a little bad because i was shy (and late arriving) — maybe i should have grilled our jergs/lxy more? or demanded fine art of my erstwhile cat lyle?

anyway i am v. v. mega pleased to have met y’all! and jealous that you’ve in turn met estela and kate78. <3

AND ME

I’m so happy that seattlites got to meet my favorite ny ilxor (shh don’t tell the others) and I’m super jealous as well. I would tell you all to come visit but that’d be terribly awful and selfish of me bc dc kinda sucks.

[blushes]

ps gonna apply for a job in seattle tbh

yay! sorry I was too sick to come meet you, mookieproof

oh hurray that’s wonderful, mookieproof! i think you’ll love living in the PNW, and the PNW will be lucky to have you.

do you have a job in mind, or are you speaking generally at this time?

now, tehersa, one more reason to move back!

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mookieproof what kinda job u going 4? why because i need to hire a software tester ;_;

poticrete hurr hurr :)

content writer/editor/producer

i *have* tested software tho

did you ever call that guy about that job?

i did — he said it had been filled, but that there were likely to be others

great! keep us posted and let us know if there’s any way we can help!

Yes, and if you’d consider software testing again, drop me your resume pls

good luck! i will be so so so jealous.

i want to go there again but there are a lot of other places i want to go

i am spending a week in sf soon and i am really excited to go to the west coast but secretly i wish i was spending a week in seattle.

i feel a sandbox bubbling up. one of these years it’ll happen.

we will stand in height order for a photograph, and blow wd’ntyll out of orbit.

a rogues gallery in a single frame.

there’s a kiwi in my town!!!!!!!!!!!!

i’m in a hotel room eating cookies (not purchased from A) and waiting to see a genuine disgrace.

... waiting to see be a genuine disgrace.

it’s all i can do to sit here for another 40 minutes. excruciating!

:D please hurry

i finished the cookies.

sooooooon!!!!!!

WHERE IS THE FUCKING BUS???!!! oh there it is.

where is that dratted girl.

oh there she isn’t yet.

You two!!!!

jeez

<3

<3

aw

estela: do you think mookieproof will move to seattle?

lxy: yes. i hope so!

<3

<3 every time we say goodbye we don’t have to worry because we have got a trick up our sleeve.

west coast made me so wistful for Seattle again, sigh. Will it ever pass?

Flights to sea in June/July are $450 right now:(

full of wist

is LA cheaper? everybody go to LA next weekend!

Lol Estela tried talking us into that, we are still thinking about it

:) you totally should!

Hah! Virgin is offering cheap westbound flights lately...

DO IT DO IT DO IT

“” “” “”

It is still really $$$ :(

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i want to visit l&j again someday but i should go to other places too

i was having seattle daydreams

come back, harbl. we have many more markets to show you.

i want to make u dinner again!

oh hell yes. what’re you doing tonight?

probably gonna eat a hamburger (this is my new food for 2012) and drink wines

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what are you guys doing columbus day weekend

no plans, you? wanna come over?!!

!!!!!!!!!!?!!

i dunno. i was gonna go to italy in october but not sure i can afford it. i have to tell new boss my vacation schedule soon.

we’re no italy but

what days did i come last year? fri to tues or fri to mon?

you arrived friday afternoon and departed very early on monday, because otherwise you wouldn’t get home till after the rail from the airport stopped running.

before we left for the airport i stood on the porch smoking and i could see you leaning on the kitchen counter eating vietnamese yogurt. <3

months later i found a link ticket in the pocket of a jacket i hadn’t worn for ages. it was yours! <3

:)

i got friday and monday and tuesday off. i’ll bring a jacket this time.

columbus day?

yeah

cool cool cool!

ok. i will make you dinner and we will have a lot of wine.

also i have a confession since i have had a lot of wine tonight: i made you a hat that i was going to mail you but i am always so busy during the week that i never mailed it. i will just have to bring it with me and it will be on time for cold weather again.

:) i have a hat head and i love hats so yes please do <3

how does one make a hat

i knitted it

harbl, for your hamburger quest there is a newish Tokyo style burger place in georgetown called katsu burger—it’s pretty good and kind of strange.

time to get excited

done

harbl, can we plan a side trip to the islands while you’re here? (you will like it.)

yes

did you buy your ticket?