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Butterflies and Habitats at Smithsonian

Saturday, March 1, 2008

Today, Michael and I headed into Washington, DC to see Chicago 10 the movie (reviews forthcoming) and visit the Museum of Natural History to see the butterflies and plants exhibit. We paid 6 dollars for the pleasure of viewing the exhibit, another 2 for the pleasure of ordering them online and another 1.25 in surcharges. [...]

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Caribbean Oriental Restaurant

Monday, February 25, 2008

Yesterday, Michael and I visited the Caribbean Oriental Restaurant for a late lunch after a trip to Ikea. Michael has raved about this place for a while, and every time I’ve gotten off for a federal holiday and tried to take him to lunch there, they were closed. We phoned them yesterday and they were [...]

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Happy New Year!

Wednesday, February 6, 2008

This image is taken from here. I order gads of adorable Japanese goodies from this young lady. Today is the official beginning of the new year on the lunar calendar. A Chinese co-worker has brought in very tasty cookies with black sesame seeds in them. I will have to stop myself from eating more than [...]

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Day Trip in Maryland

Tuesday, February 5, 2008

Michael and I try to go out every weekend and do something fun that also entails some physical exertion. Sometimes this just means taking the metro to Washington, DC and walking around finding interesting things to do. For example, the past several weekends, we’ve spent days in DC going to E Street Cinema, walking around [...]

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The National Zoo

Thursday, January 10, 2008

In my struggles to find something interesting to do at work, I have mostly found myself perusing wikipedia. One day I killed by looking up every country I didn’t know and reading about it. Today, I was looking through animals on wikipedia, found myself looking at capybaras, remembered they had some at the National Zoo [...]

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