Yeah... this will be my mid-philosophy-life crisis

so stinkin' cute

my roommate just sent me this picture, which i promptly sent to kurt, who said "mom would LOVE that!" so i figured i'd share...



i guess jcrew.com has an entire section for outfits/accessories for your dog, called "crewmutts." you can look at the rest of them here.

just think how cute molly would look in a pink cashmere sweater!

End of the brief hiatus

thank you

i know that what i've been posting isn't exactly what this blag is around for--kurt set it up so that he could share things with his family and friends and asked me to contribute with the easybib.com post, then told me this meant i would be contributing more often, which i gladly accepted.

i just wanted to post this to thank all of you for letting me borrow your son, brother, and/or friend for the summer. i had such an incredibly fun time with him. this was the first time since high school that we saw each other for more than a week, and nothing about it was weird or took any getting used to--from the moment he got here, it felt like this was the way things should always be. i can't speak for kurt but i so enjoyed his time here--we did so many fun things and at the same time didn't have to do anything to be perfectly happy.


(that's us on our big last date--we went to a pretty fancy italian place all dressed up...then peaced out and went to spike's junkyard dogs)

he's only just left--i dropped him off about two hours ago at TF Green and he just texted me a little while ago to tell me he was at his layover in maryland, so, it hasn't been that long, but i already feel like i'm missing a limb or something--my apartment is horribly empty and quiet and depressing. but i wouldn't give any of it back for the world.

anyway i just wanted to thank everybody who let him go for the summer, it meant so much to me to have this time with him and i'll be forever grateful for the time we had. and now...back to your regularly scheduled programming.

love,
sarah

ps sorry if this was melodramatic! haha.

photo tour of the RI adventure

Well, Kurt’s time in RI is winding down. I figured, before I give him back to y’all out west, I’d post a little photo album of our summer together. Warnings: we are barfy (right, Mom?), very pale, and a little boring. Also these pictures miiiight make you long a little bit for Rhode Island. Pine, if you will. It’s cool. We (particularly the Kurt half of “we”) understand. I have a harder time since I’ve had the good sense to stay put in The State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. But, y’know. To each his own?
Anyway, here goes:
not a great photo of yours truly, but I think it’s sweet of Kurt. First night at Aunt Polly’s house on Long Island in NY. This, after a moderately disastrous adventure at LaGuardia airport, where Kurt has now sworn twice to never return.

Kurt and Polly, doing the Times crossword. One thing my mother has always loved about Kurt: if he solves a clue, he’ll write the answer next to the clue, allowing the puzzle-doer the joy of actually filling it in. Nice, no?

Here’s the other thing Kurt spend most of his time doing—reading. That’s my cousin Cindy in the background. And THIS…

Is my charming cousin Palmer. Wearing my glasses. And being a total gem. He spend most of his weekend asking Kurt more questions than have ever been asked in rapid succession than at any other time in the history of the world.

…and trying to write his name on the back of Kurt’s shirt.

Once back in Providence, Kurt attempts to fold a fitted sheet. Hilarity ensues.

and snuggles…with himself. On some very manly sheets 

and is reunited with Phils!

Creepiest menu ad ever! With the worst spelling! Winny shot? Daddy’s arms? Jeeze!

Roger Williams looks out over his fair city.

The view of the Statehouse from Prospect Park at sunset. Hey Craig, can you name the other two freestanding domes?

…we attempt to fine-tune the art of the self-portrait. …and apparently, don’t quite succeed.

What Kurt is most often seen doing—playing on his new “toy.”

Kurt gets new glasses! I like them.

Wickenden Street always offers amazing little oddities. Like a lion statue on a driveway entrance…with glued-on googley eyes.

Yes, it’s a stop sign. This is not the point—the point is the back of it:

Sundlun for Governor! Did any of you guys live in RI while he was in office? Anyway, that’s my former, old, crazy, mean, and did I mention old? And crazy? Boss.

Remember this place?? We tried to go see Christopher Simpson’s play, Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind, but we were about $7 short for two tickets. So we sat outside, watched the sun go down, and saw Kelly’s old house. Nice paint job! (He didn’t even pay me to say that, I swear!)

Kurt, in his new glasses, standing next to the Kingston Free Library. Looking pretty adorable…

I tried to be sly in getting some photographic evidence of Craig’s visit to Providence…apparently I am not quite as stealthy as I think I am.

The last two weeks we’ve been spending some time down in Charlestown, RI, at the house my Aunt Polly is renting for a month. Here’s another view:

It’s on Ninigret Pond. There are incredible sunsets at night—Kurt took a picture of one with his phone when we were there the other night, but we can’t figure out how to send it to the computer. I’ll be sure to take one tonight and post it/send it to Kurt ASAP, though. This house—no joke—looks like a battleship from the front. It’s got about a thousand rooms, and is incredibly easy to get lost in. There’s an observation-type-deck on the top where, at night, you can see literally every star in the sky. Maybe I’ll figure out how to take pictures of that, too!

Kurt and my mom at the pool. Note Kurt’s super stylish glasses! Can’t see ‘em?

Stylin.

Hiding from the sun. Kurt Anderson and Sarah Stowell have no business sitting out in the hot August sun. Trust.

My cousin Charlie. Lounging. On a lobster.

Kurt’s stack o’ books—some read, some to-be-read. There are many more scattered around the room/house, but this is the main stack.

Oh! The grand finale! I decided I wanted to dye my hair darker and, not to be outdone, Kurt decided to bleach his. So, here’s the before picture…


Kurt, looking like a lost member of the Insane Clown Posse, mid-bleach…

Me, dying my hair…

Mohawk! …No?

…during…

After! Look how blonde!

Anyway, that is a REALLY long (sorry!) synopsis of our amazing summer adventure. Thanks for sticking around through the whole thing—and hope your internet browsers didn’t hate me for posting all of those pictures! Maybe a few to follow before he leaves on Sunday. Until then…

Guest Appearance!!!!

I introduced this (amazing) webpage to Kurt the other day, and suggested he write about it in this here blag, and then last night around midnight, as I attempted and failed and attempted and failed to get comfortable after totally housing two bowls of potato leek soup and a heaping pile of apple crisp (homemade, thankyouverymuch, and it was delicious), he suggested that I write about it and post it in his blag.

And here we are.

Remember writing papers in college, and how much of a drag every part of it was, and so how you’d try to make it more fun? I mean, I liked paper-writing more than anybody else I know, but still, aside from using multiple word documents for the thrill of pasting it all together, grossly manipulating the elipses-ridden quote, and writing the entire thing single-spaced and then double-spacing it at the end to make myself feel heroic and awesome (I’m not the only one, am I?), what can you do?

The answer is easy. Easybib.com, in fact. Let’s fact it—the research can be interesting, the writing can be clever, and honestly is there anything better than finding that completely perfect quote in the 11^th hour? No! But there’s also nothing worse than creating a bibliography. Until, of course, this fancy little website came into play.

My friend Beth introduced easybib.com to me in college, with the logic—and I quote— “share, share, that’s fair” (thank you, Miss Coleo). And it’s saved my butt on many a paper—including, but not limited to, several annotated bibliographies for my thesis. And it’s so (ready?) easy to use (hold for screencap). You select the source (book, journal, magazine, website…the list goes on), then fill in all of the necessary fields (title, author, page numbers, website, etc)—if you’re using a book, you can actually just put in the ISBN number and the site fills it in FOR you!—hit “next,” and bam! You have yourself the beginnings to a stellar works cited page. You even have the option of adding in annotations, which, believe you me, has made my last week of research for work about a thousand times easier.

So, there you have it! I know a few of Kurt’s readers are in their schooling phase (one or two [ain’t they cute??] might be on their way to TEACHING the schooling phase…), so I thought it might come in handy.

PS: yes, it is.

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