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Home again today because of snow. I probably could've gotten in to work, but I called my boss around 8am and she thought it would be better to stay home. Her son's school is closed, which would've meant canceling our 10am meeting even if I had gone in - and she pointed out that patients are unlikely to slog through the snow to be research subjects. I have to agree. So I'm here at home, working intermittently on a research proposal, IMing with [livejournal.com profile] therealjae, and generally relaxing.

[livejournal.com profile] fourgates is visiting. He, [livejournal.com profile] mittelschmertz, and I wandered Baltimore for a while on Saturday - had brunch at the Paper Moon, visited the American Visionary Arts Museum, which turned out to have a depressing major exhibit of drug art, stopped for coffee at Ze Mean Bean, which was depressingly out of chai, and - despite the daunting cold - climbed Federal Hill for the harbor views. Stupendous dinner at Sushi King: the highlights were a white seaweed roll with four different kinds of fish, and something they were calling "Pretty in Red Roll," which had king crab and avocado inside, maguro tuna on the outside, a ribbon of spicy sauce, and a ribbon of creamy pale green sauce lightly laced with wasabi. It was as beautiful as it was delicious. (Okay, maybe nothing could be as beautiful as that roll was delicious. Wow.)

[livejournal.com profile] fourgates wanted to try our church, so when [livejournal.com profile] mittelschmertz dropped him off at my place on Sunday morning we attempted to go tearing off downtown, despite the falling snow. We didn't get very far before we discovered, via an enormous traffic jam, that the roads were treacherous. So we turned around instead, had breakfast at Frank's Diner (mmmm, marble cake), and went to my pistol range to put holes in paper for a while. I hadn't been to the range in forever, so it was nice to see that the owner remembered me. "She's a serious shooter," he said to someone, gesturing at me. "But she doesn't know that she is." Hmmm. (He might've just been trying to get me to renew my membership for another year. But we had a lot of fun, so I suppose that I might.)

Back at the apartment, we had a quiet afternoon and evening filled with talking, cuddling, West Wing videos, and kabobs. And today we're mostly snowed in, except that after I was excused from trying to drive downtown, [livejournal.com profile] fourgates took my car and headed downtown himself for an interview which might lead to a job in Baltimore. Other than that, and my research proposal thingy, no plans for today. That's a nice quality in a day, sometimes.

Updated to add: Still no cold, four days after [livejournal.com profile] curiousangel came down with a terrible one. Go, vitamin C!

Date: 2003-01-06 09:19 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wcg.livejournal.com
Ah! This explains why you didn't answer your phone when I called a while ago.

Have a pleasant day darling. I'm relieved to know you're not out driving around in it.

Date: 2003-01-06 09:31 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] rivka.livejournal.com
Oh! I didn't know you were back, or I would've called you. Glad to see you made it home safely.

Date: 2003-01-06 09:53 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wcg.livejournal.com
Yeah, I'm back, and pleased to report that the people in Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania and West Virginia know how to drive in the snow.

Fortunately I didn't get caught up in the multi car pileup west of Frederick, but it had traffic stopped for 20+ miles.

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