Xmas after-action report
Dec. 26th, 2017 07:11 pmGreetings from (cold, snowy) Ithaca!
To summarize:
I drove down to NJ on Thursday, and Mom and I spent Friday in the city touring the Morgan Library and the Tenement Museum, both of which were extremely cool. (We also ducked briefly into the NYPL's business library building because we had to kill ~15 minutes before the Morgan opened, even after deliberately walking veeeeeery slowwwwwwly along 34th St and spending ~15 minutes in the Amazon.com bookstore. (Yes, Amazon has physical bookstores. It weirds me out too.) The library was an excellent delaying tactic; I made note of several recently-published books that I either put holds on via my own library or purchased for my Kindle.)
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And then I drove home to Ithaca today, leaving Madison around 11:45 and arriving in Ithaca almost exactly four hours later. I haven't completely finished unpacking -- I still have all my clothes to put away -- but all the other stuff is mostly where it ought to be. And while a few of my plants had gotten very thirsty in my absence, none of them had died, so that's nice. :)
I will try to make a post about Yuletide stuff later tonight, but if not tonight, tomorrow for sure.
To summarize:
I drove down to NJ on Thursday, and Mom and I spent Friday in the city touring the Morgan Library and the Tenement Museum, both of which were extremely cool. (We also ducked briefly into the NYPL's business library building because we had to kill ~15 minutes before the Morgan opened, even after deliberately walking veeeeeery slowwwwwwly along 34th St and spending ~15 minutes in the Amazon.com bookstore. (Yes, Amazon has physical bookstores. It weirds me out too.) The library was an excellent delaying tactic; I made note of several recently-published books that I either put holds on via my own library or purchased for my Kindle.)
And then I drove home to Ithaca today, leaving Madison around 11:45 and arriving in Ithaca almost exactly four hours later. I haven't completely finished unpacking -- I still have all my clothes to put away -- but all the other stuff is mostly where it ought to be. And while a few of my plants had gotten very thirsty in my absence, none of them had died, so that's nice. :)
I will try to make a post about Yuletide stuff later tonight, but if not tonight, tomorrow for sure.