The Tweets That Went Astray

Here are the Tweets that never went through, much to my chagrin. I thought I was keeping everyone updated and excited, but no...the tweets went into the ether never to return until today! With commentary in the parentheses!

• On line at Obama/Deeds event! So many happy people! (waiting to go thru the metal detector, the secret service guys were really nice and friendly)
• This is so much fun!
• Amazing how many people I know at this event! (Seriously, out of the thousand-plus people there, I had met at least 150 of them before! Including several from non-political sources - like my friend whose son is friends with MM.)
• It's like a big party!
• Ryan Myers is talking 'bout Loudoun! (The Loudoun crowd is loud and proud! Our cheering rocked the hotel!)
• So many people here! If everyone here does doors this wkend, 100,000 doors'll get knocked! (@EliseRichman points out that not everybody is a door-knocking demon like the Doorbell Queen. I say, pfft! What's 75 to 100 doors each among friends?)
• We need to get walking and knocking!
• Tell 'em Tim! (Tim Kaine was talking about McDonnell and the Republican-led House of Delegates turning down $125 Million in stimulus funds)
• Tell 'em Creigh! (Creigh was talking about how foolish McDonnell is for wanting to pay for roads by taking away money from schools)
• We are FIRED UP!
• Obama's roasting Deeds. The crowd loves it. Now he's reminding us of Creigh's xlnt record.
• Now Obama's reminding us of his own xlnt record.
• I love listening to our President talk intelligently about problems and solutions.
• Wonderful event! I sent many tweets and not one went through.

Lovely weekend, lovely mother's day

Yesterday was skating lessons, followed by a practice skating session followed by chores followed by leftovers for dinner.

Today was:

Homemade prezzies from MM and Godiva chocolate ("dark, so I won't be tempted to ask you to share!") from MS, a pajama breakfast and then hurrying into nice clothes.

UU services (the flower communion), lunch at Anita's in Leesburg, dessert at South Street Under (where we saw folks we know from UU), and then a trip to Wegman's where we saw 7 people we knew before we even walked in the door. And everywhere we went, we enjoyed the fact that it was a really truly Spring Day.

Dinner at home (roasted garlic chicken, mashed taters, and fiddlehead ferns) and a rousing game of Uno which I LOST (how DARE they beat me on MOTHER'S DAY!!!).

And that sums it up.

How was your Mother's Day? I hope it was a happy one.

My bus riding and car-pooling partner...

...is my boss. I like her a lot. She's a pretty near-by neighbor, actually, though I never met her before I got this temp job.

We ride in together every morning and, while on the bus, I've taught her to knit. I donated 4 skeins of Brown Sheep Lamb's Pride Sun Yellow Single Ply (the thick stuff) to the cause!

She picked it up really quickly and is doing a great job. Nice even stitches.

After I go back to school, we're still going to meet at the coffee place nearby once or twice a month to knit together.

I love making new friends.

I just saw that I have a visitor from China

HI DAD!!!

Fabulous

The reunion was amazing. I had a great time and saw a billion people. A surprising number of whom looked exactly the same. (MomOfTwoSetsOfTwins, WorksWithNonProfits, and Wow!CalculusIsBetterForEconomicsThanPhysics - I'm looking at you).

And then, as Dr. Dog points out, I woke up to a text message that I was prominently featured on page C5 of the local rag (article starts on page C1). You can read the article at L-O-U-D-O-U-N-E-X-T-R-A(dot)C-O-M. Click on "News". The article's about growth and at the mo there's a thumbnail picture of the one that was in the paper this morning

Did you know that you can't get my local paper in Park Slope, Brooklyn? The B&N in the neighborhood doesn't carry newspapers. I was shocked.

I mean, seriously, I can't believe that there could BE a neighborhood in NYC that has 7 newstands and NOT ONE carries the paper that broke Watergate. Gah.

It's a small, small world

My professor offers quite a bit of extra credit. One way to earn it is to summarize 3 popular (non-scholarly) articles he has up on the class website.

Article #5? Written by one of my mother's best friends.

What makes it a truly small world is that when I was in Korea on a stopover twenty years ago, I turned on the tv and saw this same friend!!!!

I just called her to let her know that her article is required reading for this class. She's quite pleased.