Pottermore

I have magic! I missed the Pottermore clue yesterday because I had no idea how it was going to work. Today I've been waking up every hour to check if it was up yet. Not sure how long I will have to wait before I can get into the site (apparently it still might be a few weeks).

My Mini NYC Adventure

I had a 4 hour layover at the Port Authority bus station on my way to Pennsylvania.  Since I've never been to New York before, I figured I might as well explore.  So I wandered around the neighborhood for a few hours.  Port Authority is right next to Times Square and Broadway, but I thought I would have more fun exploring.  Here is the Google Map I made of my short-range wanderings.  The day I was there it was ridiculously warm, so my Pinkberry melted the second that I stepped outside.

Original with mochi, blackberries, and kiwi.

Don Giovanni Ristorante-- I didn't get a good picture, but the walls in this place were covered in pictures of opera singers.  It was pretty great.

Wood-fired pizza with sausage, spinach, red peppers and onions.  Delicious!  For some reason I didn't have them box it up to take on the bus.  I must have been scared that the other bus-riders would be super jealous.

I had some sort of cupcake (mocha?) and a cappuccino at the Cupcake Cafe, right across 9th Ave from Port Authority.  They were strangely unfriendly here and the cupcake was only slightly above average.

Statue of Ralph Kramdem (played by Jackie Gleason) from the TV show The Honeymooners outside of Port Authority.

Hopefully I get to visit New York sometime for real, but in the meantime I am happy to live in the most delicious, artistic, and friendly city: Portland, ME.

Mini Med School was fun, but now I have no idea what kind of doctor I want to be. Everything was so simple before I knew how interesting the other options are.

Sleep Quilt Complete

Actually, I 'finished' it a few weeks ago.


It still needs a border of some kind. And quilted.

Graduated!

I am graduated! B.A. in Women's and Gender Studies, summa cum laude!

Moving

This is what my apartment looks like now:







All I need to do is have it packed and cleaned by Saturday afternoon (2.5 days). Besides that, I just need to spend a morning volunteering and have lunch with a friend. Then I'm moving to Portland!

Derby!

Posted over on the family food blog about our Derby Day celebrations.