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Thursday, May 8th, 2008
posted by Kristin | filed under Commentary, Wishing, Extracurricular | 1 Comment
I’m having a mid-20s crisis. I’ve been realizing lately that at two months shy of 27 years old, I’ve had surprisingly few periods in my life when I could say “Whateva, I do what I want,” like Cartman on my favorite episode of South Park. And suddenly - now that I’m supposed to be […]
Monday, July 30th, 2007
posted by Kristin | filed under History, Commentary | 2 Comments
This weekend when we weren’t working on the bathroom - yes, we actually worked! - we watched the DVD of the British public television reality/living-history show 1900 House. At $30.99, it’s expensive for one DVD, but I figured as a resident of a bit-past-1900 house, we needed to see it.
Turns out the DVD […]
Tuesday, July 17th, 2007
posted by Kristin | filed under Eutaw, Commentary, Grumpy Bear | 3 Comments
Today’s Tuscaloosa News features a story on a new Eutaw resident. He’s an actor/artist/singer from California who bought a gorgeous house that I adore and that was on the market for a long time. Naturally, we’re all thrilled he bought it, and when we met him at the latest Historical Society banquet, we thought […]
Thursday, July 12th, 2007
posted by Kristin | filed under Commentary | 6 Comments
Last night we watched Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix in a theater packed with like-minded Potter-obsessed adults. There were more adults there than children, though we went at the respectable hour of 7 p.m. I heard the group of 40-somethings beside us discussing spells and the teens behind us on our […]
Friday, May 18th, 2007
posted by Kristin | filed under Bathrooms, Commentary | 13 Comments
At dinner with friends a while back, I was talking about my choice to add the English Telephone hand shower attachment on my clawfoot tub. A guy - of course, it was a guy - said he didn’t see the point of hand showers.
At the time, I made a not-too-convincing argument in favor […]
