Today, while briefly stopping into my LinkedIn account, I realized that somehow this blog - a class assignment from Spring 2010 semester had somehow linked to my LinkedIn account. Perhaps not the best idea to keep it there. What else did it lead to? The realization that I really enjoyed having a blog, whether it's read by anyone or not. I had stopped having a blog because after a hiatus of not updating my 'where in the world is jacquie' blog, with some of my travels in Turkey, the Caribbean, the Middle East, China were nicely documented - my blog was DELETED by blogger. Yep, deleted, and with that left a little piece of my heart. And I went on a strike from blogger.com until now.
Right now is our application reading season, this morning there is a CWL season, so I am going in and out of the chat.
This past weekend - Februay 18th - 20th, Nell and Thom came to Boston for a visit - Thom's first week or so back in the U.S. from Japan. It was quite the whirlwind of a weekend, including (NOT in order):
a visit to the MFA (the new Americas wing - we loved it! Sean and I decided we really should be members of the museum)
a quick stop at Boston Beer Works for nachos and frites (fries AND fried Pickles!)
West Roxbury diner brunch
Eastern Standard for pre-dinner cocktails and oysters
dinner at Francesca's in the North End
a visit to Mike's Pastries (our first time!! - FINALLY!)
a visit to the Purple Shamrock (which wasn't as fun as the previous Thursday night when we'd visited with Jon who was here from Texas and Video DJ Chris Willis (whose music style we really enjoyed and after engaging in conversation we learned that on alternative nights is at Strip Club DJ-hehe)(would love to have gone to a classier place, but the combination of proximity and cold had arrows pointing in its direction)
there were what felt like several hours of waiting for a taxi in windy, 12 degree weather, where Nell and I snuck in the 'cove' of a Dunkin Donuts across from Faneuil Hall, right after we had visited the last (strange) bar for the night and took snapshots of different situations, including 'awkward moment'
oh, and we can't forget the 'Christmas picture' poses we took before leaving for dinner
the champagne celebration while getting ready
'Time Intensity Factor' as I like to call it, we truly made the most of the weekend and their short visit.
Now, several things are on my mind, but I'll have to check in later - it's back to work for now!
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