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Long Overdue

John — Mon, 15 Nov 2010 21:15:16 +0000

I suck at this.

Summer/Early Fall in Review:

June:

Grover

Pride

July:

Massachusetts (photo: Heather Lariviere)

Tomatoes (and nothing else) from my Garden

City Sunsets

August:

Rehoboth Beach, DE

Boston

September:

New Orleans (photo: Chris Trott)

Outer Banks, NC (photo: Chris Trott)

October:

Pottsville/Centralia, PA (Photos: Chris Trott)

November:

It could have been worse.

Jacksonville, FL

Ongoing:

School: Doing well. Finishing up my 4th Seminar, two more to go. If all goes well, I’ll be spending a week in Northfield, VT in June 2011 for residency and commencement.
Grover: I lucked out with a great dog. Aside from some stomach issues, he’s about perfect. Low-key, fairly well-trained, and now trusted out of the crate during the day.
Work: Meh. Pretty unrewarding most days, but nothing is perfect.

That’s about all I got for now.

Procrastination

John — Mon, 17 May 2010 18:30:09 +0000

It’s amazing how much I can get done when I have a deadline bearing down on me. Unfortunately, none of what I did this weekend was in any way related to the 7-10,000 word paper I have due this coming Saturday at 11:59PM.

I spent much of my weekend on various home and garden projects. In addition to the grow light I devised for the Rosemary and Basil in the kitchen window, Jamie and I put up a fence around our garden plots and I replaced the blighty tomato plants in my garden with (hopefully) healthy new ones, though it appears that late blight might end up being a big problem in our area this season. I also installed a dimmer switch in the kitchen, converted a switched outlet in my bedroom to un-switched and visited the Washington Humane Society shelter. Exciting stuff, I tell you.

I’m not sure what the point of this post was, other than to not be working on stuff that I should be. So I’ll leave you with some words of wisdom from my girlfriend, Rachel Maddow. Watch it, it’s worth it.

Tomato Blight

John — Sat, 15 May 2010 21:18:16 +0000

Sadface. I was a bit disheartened to get an e-mail from garden buddy Jamie this morning with a picture of blight on one of my tomato plants. I’ve pulled all 3 that I bought at Home Depot, and hope to replace them tomorrow. My first real gardening casualty…

Green Thumb, etc.

John — Mon, 03 May 2010 00:25:55 +0000

My cousin Heather started her own blog recently, which reminds me that I haven’t updated this thing in forever. I’m a bad, bad blogger.

Grad School is going well. It’s not yet as much of a time commitment as I feared, and my grades have been good. I’m wrapping up my first seminar on May 22nd, with a couple of weeks off before classes start up again in June.

The big news over the past couple of months is that I started a new assignment at work, returning to my roots at the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. I had a lengthy transition from my old client, but I’ve fully moved over to FDIC as of April 15th. I have two years of experience there, so there hasn’t been too much of a learning curve. I am enjoying it so far.

I’ve also picked up a bit of a hobby recently. My friend Jamie and I got plots at the community gardens in Fort Dupont Park. Here are a few pictures, courtesy of Jamie.

So far it’s been a lot of fun. I’ve planted various kinds of tomatoes, bell peppers, spinach, collard greens, green beans, catnip, cucumbers and squash, and I’ve got plenty more land to fill.

Other than that, not much else to report. A bit of travel coming up–New York City for Memorial Day Weekend and hopefully home to Southeastern Massachusetts for the 4th of July Weekend.