Category: Personal

A Night at the Ballet Preview

I always look forward to Halloween. This year is particularly exciting because I chose a costume that was going to be multi-purpose: tying into the theme of the upcoming orchestra concert, something ‘skirtish’ for contradance camp, and just plain cute. Since the theme of the concert is ballet music, I decided to be a ballerina.…

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The ‘Humanmetrics’ Test

Results of an online test/survey by HUMANMETRICS. Go to this site, complete the ‘test,’ then go to http://typelogic.com/ or wikipedia for a full description of which personality you are, then find your Notes application, create a new note, copy and paste, and tag everyone who you think will actually do this thing. http://www.humanmetrics.com/cgi-win/JTypes2.asp I’m INFJ:…

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The ‘A-Muse-ing’ Test

Your result for The A-Muse-ing Test … Your muse is Urania! 20% Urania, 10% Clio, 10% Erato, 20% Euterpe, 10% Calliope, 0% Thalia, 10% Melpomene, 10% Polyhymnia and 10% Terpsichore!   Urania is the “celestial one” of the muses.  She can tell the future by looking at the stars.  She keeps her eyes focused on…

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Hello, Facebook!

It’s time to embrace this new form of social connection. Enter, Facebook. I’m told that this is an improvement upon friendster, another internet service for providing connections to friends and random strangers. At this point in time, one must have an email account associated with a school, i.e. it ends with an .edu instead of…

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Our Deepest Fear

As a birthday gift for a dear friend, I decided to set this inspirational quote into a poster. I first came across this text in the book Paper Graphics : The Power of Paper in Graphic Design; Rockport Publishers, 1999, p.78. Bob Dahlquist has used this in his 1996 New Year’s Card, and like many…

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A Visit with Santa Vinnie

So my roommate and I decided to go see my friend, Vinnie Costa, who was working at Macy’s. He had previously worked as one of the helper elves, but this year, he went for the big time: Santa Claus. He had a blog with many funny stories about all that comes with the territory of…

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