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April 29, 2004Wednesday...
I spent a few hours yesterday prepping my apartment for this Saturday's life-experience milestone--my first hosted dinner party. Some of my old Notre Dame teacher chums are converging at my place for Japanese cuisine potluck. As host, I'm proving the sushi--or rather, I'm buying the ingredients. My ex-girlfriend is the one who is actually creating the sushi, which is a good thing for all parties involved.
Anyhow, I did yeoman's service with my living room yesterday night, dusting everything but the dinner table (which will get a once-over after I put in the two leaves) and shelving all of my stray books--which is no trivial task, if you know me. I still have to vacuum, mop, and clean the bathroom and kitchen, but there's still time. While my apartment wasn't quite in the realm of "Buddhist monk who refused to bathe for the last 20 years," this current flurry of cleaning is nothing if not very well-deserved.
I managed to miss not one but both of the free ice cream days this week, and I feel like quite the schmuck. Luckily, my friend Kelle granted me an unexpected boon of four individually-wrapped Mrs. Fields cookies, so I was able to compensate with empty calories from another source and keep the universe balanced.
Check out this trailer for "Comedian," the Jerry Seinfeld movie. I'll see the movie based on the humor of the trailer alone--which has, it's significant to mention, nothing to do with the actual film.
Because it's ever so cool, I recently bought a lead musket ball from Daniel Frank Sedwick, a professional numismatist who specializes in shipwreck/nautical items. My musket ball is an artifact from one of eleven Spanish ships that sank on their way from Havana to Spain on July 31, 1715. The ball is about 5/8ths of an inch in diameter, and weighs 22.3 grams. To pick it up and toss it from one palm to the other, I can't get over how heavy it feels. Differences of weapon accuracy and firing power aside, one of those things would have done some very bad things to anybody who got hit with one. At $7, I couldn't have asked for a more reasonable price. For the amateur collector who is happy to have whatever piece of history he can afford, it seemed a good investment.
Posted by patrick at April 29, 2004 01:21 AM
CommentsWell, if it makes you feel any better I missed free ice cream day too. There's no Ben & Jerry's near me (that I know of anyway), but I do have a few Baskin Robbins close by. Didn't remember the whole free ice cream deal until after they closed, despite the fact that it was also advertised on tv. Oh well, there's always next year. Hope the dinner party went well.
Posted by: Steph at April 30, 2004 03:26 PM
^_^
Posted by: Nastassia at April 30, 2004 07:50 PM
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