Andrea ([info]nobody_nowhere) wrote,
@ 2007-07-17 08:32:00
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Current location:at Home in Burlington, MA
Current mood: calm

Midsummer Update
So I've been feeling a bit guilty for not updating - it's certainly not as though nothing is happening. Since I last updated I have:

- graduated
- moved out of Random
- moved into Oracle Corporate Apartment
- started working at Oracle
- made lasagna
- gone climbing a bit
- joined the Burlington Library
- gone to NY for a day to look at the Origami Convention
- gone to Salem to look at the Peabody Essex Museum
- gone to Cape Cod
- gone to Canobie Lake amusement park
- gone clam digging
- taken the Cape Cod potato chips factory tour
- taken some trapeze classes
- exercised almost every morning
- made a stamp of an origami bunny
- started letterboxing
- eaten lots of delicious food (both eating out and staying home)
- been to the Fells
- and Horn Pond
- and Lake Quannapowitt
- baked something every week
- ran to/along the beach
- swam across a lake
- started a crochet project
- read a lot of books
- bought climbing shoes
- made ratatouille (but I still haven't seen the movie)
- biked around Cape Cod
- packed lunch almost every day (I didn't pack the first day of work, nor for this other lunch event)
- played scrabble
- relaxed
- enjoyed life :)

Sorry that so many of my updates are lists...I don't often have time and motivation to update, and, by the time I do, there are so many things built up that I can't go into detail about all of them so it ends up a list. Feel free to ask questions about any part of the list if it interests you. I may have done more than this that I'm forgetting...


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[info]tesseractive
2007-07-17 03:51 pm UTC (link)
My parents just ran into your parents at Costco, which reminded me that I hadn't heard from you in a while. I have been baking too! I decorated my first cake from cake class with dots in the fibonacci sequence...it looks very nice.

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[info]nobody_nowhere
2007-07-17 06:31 pm UTC (link)
Your baking is undoubtedly more elaborate than mine. Particularly if you are taking a cake class. Your baking also appears to be geekier than mine.

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[info]annag
2007-07-17 07:11 pm UTC (link)
-What sort of climbing shoes?
-How is Oracle?

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[info]nobody_nowhere
2007-07-17 08:23 pm UTC (link)
-five ten siren's..they were the only shoes in the store that fit reasonably at all
-Oracle is ok. The people are all really nice. The work isn't too bad. The stuff I'm doing outside of work far outweighs it as far as interest, though

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[info]digfarenough
2007-07-17 11:03 pm UTC (link)
what is it you're doing at oracle?

how are the fells? I've been intending to go there for a while now but still haven't.. maybe when I finish my thesis

re: trapeze, nice! bet that's fun

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[info]nobody_nowhere
2007-07-18 01:37 am UTC (link)
rather non-descript code-monkeying on this product called Oracle Warehouse Builder.

The fells are very pretty. I've only been to a small bit of it so far (they're also quite large). I did the Wrights tower letterbox there, and the tower was much nicer than I expected. It's being renovated though, so it wasn't open. :(

Trapeze is fun, but it's rather expensive. I'm going again on Thursday - when you first start they have an intro package of 3 classes for 2. I've been going every other week and this will be the third time... Not sure if it's worth the money after that, though. I won't be able to do it after the summer's over (and I stop having a car) anyways.

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[info]digfarenough
2007-07-18 01:54 am UTC (link)
ah code monkey-ing.. good song, though :)

yeah, I saw they are quite large.. that's how I found them: I zoomed out on boston in google maps and saw this large park area and immediately became interested :)

I had never heard of letterboxing, I looked it up after I saw your post

too bad about it being expensive.. if I had time and cash for an expensive hobby, I'd take pilot lessons.. maybe someday.. seems like fun :)

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[info]nobody_nowhere
2007-07-18 02:24 am UTC (link)
ah...I'm pretty sure it's cheaper than pilot lessons. I think it might even be cheaper than glassblowing frequently is. If I thought I was going to be able to take a bunch of classes and develop any sort of real skill, I might do it. However, for an activity that I'm just doing a few times over the summer, it's not worth it. I'm better off accumulating more climbing skill, as that's something I can still do during term. (and it's substantially cheaper in the long run)

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[info]digfarenough
2007-07-18 02:58 am UTC (link)
I dunno, mountains are pretty expensive.. but I bet buying one is cheaper than renting in the long run

I'm sure it is cheaper than pilot lessons.. I looked once but I don't recall how much it was, quite pricey though.. need to win a macarthur fellowship, then I'd be able to afford it :)
so if you know anyone who is a nominator.. :)

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[info]sprrwhwk
2007-07-18 05:57 am UTC (link)
Wait, you're working for Oracle? You're not out in CA, are you? (I bike past the Oracle corporate headquarters here every day. :)

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[info]nobody_nowhere
2007-07-18 10:46 am UTC (link)
no. I'm in burlington, ma. The only Oracle intern here, too. Everyone else is in CA. It does sound a bit mmore interesting. If I were in CA we probably would have hooked up to do something together by now.

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