A little more beauty in my life

And now in the category of "not spending the inheritance of your firstborn," free entertainment for many this Saturday: Museum Day 2008

Sponsored by the Smithsonian Museum, there are a bunch of participating museums. I'm thinking about surprising Adam* with a trip to the art museum, which we haven't visited yet. Admittedly, we're spoiled by the museums in Boston, but it should be a good way to celebrate his first Saturday at home in three weeks.

*he actually knows this blog exists, and is subscribed to it in Google Reader, but I don't think he ever checks, so I think I'm safe.

Love it

I wonder...

How in the world did people manage footnotes (especially really dense footnote-age, like in law review articles) when they were using typewriters?

One year!

It's been one year since I married that man o' mine. Thanks to everyone who celebrated with us, in body or in spirit.

And, as a special present to y'all, since I haven't done this yet...want some pictures? (what? twelve months isn't a long time or anything!).



Photos credits all belong to our photographer, the wonderful Cherry Li, high school friend of Adam's and photographer extraordinaire. Seriously people. These are all un-retouched and done without any additional lighting. A girl and her camera. And we don't look too bad, considering it was super hot and muggy (as it is apt to be at the end of July in Boston).

Great Video

I kind of want to subtitle it "Joy to the World."

Where the Hell is Matt? (2008) from Matthew Harding on Vimeo.

Happy 4th!

Enjoy some grilling, some time with friends and/or family, and some pyrotechnics!

Tales of Long Ago and Faraway Places

After Adam got done with classes, we headed out for a post-exam, pre-internship, exploratory tour.

We were actually in two new states for Adam (North and South Carolina), but we weren't even in SC long enough to see a welcome station.





Near Charlotte is an absolutely amazing fabric store--Mary Jo's Cloth Store--and it just so happened that I needed some fabric (of course I needed fabric. Have I ever not needed fabric?). Quilt backing, for our summer "let's try to not spend the inheritance of our firstborn on air-conditioning" bed-covering.


We quite enjoyed wandering around downtown Charlotte, though it was less-than-spectacularly-active on Saturday night. Highlights included:

• A little mini-library next to a park (which we didn't really get to see because someone was having a wedding reception).


• Pizzeria Uno's. Despite having earned a reputation in college for being anti-Uno's, we were both in the mood for some deep dish pizza. And I guess it's a good thing. When we got back, we looked it up, and the only Uno's in the state of Tennessee is in Maryville. The only one.


• Wachovia plaza. Pretty. A really dark photo, though.


• The building with a quiz. I can't remember what it was called, but it had these touch pads, and if you touched them, there was a sound (gong, bell, etc.). Apparently if you hit them in the right order (there's a clue on the side of the building), there's some extended song that plays and the building lights up). I didn't try to test Adam's patience by actually doing it though.


• Staying in a hotel with a tv. I guess that's not so crazy now that we have a tv in our place (thanks Mom and Dad--we actually watched it for the first time last night for the Lakers/Celtics game). But in Charlotte we watched Top Chef, or something of the sort, and an episode of Project Runway.
  

And that was just the first (full) day!