Pre-weekend started off okay w/ me getting my butt back to track for the first time since before Australia, end of March! Though I was late and barely did much of the workout, it was great to be back on the track w/ Tara and Jake. Too bad I had to take the next 2 weeks off because I was in Bar Harbor.

So Friday July 11th was Joslynn's 24th birthday and she mapped out a pub crawl from Central to Harvard complete w/ 80s theme! I've already showed some pics from the night but I'll post a little more and link to Johnny's little video, that I did hear he wasn't too thrilled about after the fact, sorry Johnny!

I ended up at the crawl late because I had to hit the mall first for my 80s outfit and then home to run a few miles before showering up and getting decked out in my blue eyeshadow, plus it started pretty early. Finally made it and lasted the rest of the night. Didn't get too crazy luckily.

Took Cleo to get her bath at Hotel Marlowe on Saturday which she was great about. Stood there perfectly, venturing to her happy place so she could take it, while they soaped her up and rinsed her off. Only got one picture because I forgot to charge up the camera battery after the pub crawl the night before.

Yes I know I've been bad as usual w/ the weekend recaps. They take so much work. Yes rr, smaller more frequent posts would be better than no posts but anyway I will try a bit tonight to get caught up.

So going back to the Fourth of July weekend. I was real excited to go to the Pops rehearsal after work that Thursday the 3rd but as me, db and beaky were walking there it started pouring and so we never made it. Not even sure if the rehearsal even happened anyway w/ the storm. Oh well, missed the Rascal Flatts, yuck :0)

Friday the Fourth db and i hung out around Faneuil Hall/Quincy Market eating bad food. Check out this lovely video of db playing in the fountains at the North End Parks across from Hanover St.

That night went w/ beaky and db to a barbecue at db's friend's house. stayed for a bit watching them play cards then headed to tara's new apt. near davis to meet up w/ all the girls. we hit a bar in davis for a little bit, it was dead, then drove down mass ave. to get closer to the fireworks. on the way, we were driving next to a boy in a convertible bmw that db asked if he wanted to take some of the girls in our car, we had 4 people in the back, too crowded, this boy was a bit shy and seemed a little uptight.

a couple lights later we convinced jos to get in his car. they drove behind us for a bit and then jos gave her number and got back in our car. (they have since gone out a couple times but i don't think he's turning out to be the one, though they did have good stuff in common) we eventually made it to main st. in kendall to watch fireworks. beaky was w/ us and freaking out real bad the whole time.

i hope to never bring her to fireworks again. i thought it would be better than leaving her home alone. after fireworks went to move the car and meet the girls at a bar but w/ the traffic after the fireworks it was a nightmare and just ended up going home.

had to work the weekend, primary rounds both sat. and sun. i was also my own backup. it was a last minute decision because the girl that was supposed to do it had left the dpt. for grad school and no one was paying attention to assign someone else to her duties. i decided to take it because they offered me no weekend primary duties for the next year. sweet deal! hope they don't renig.

sunday night after work went to jake and danny's new apt. they actually live in the condos where i used to live w/ rr when i first moved to boston in brighton. we had wonderful watermelon martinis and i brought some yummy stuff from trader joe's to eat.

I'm here for 2 weeks for the Jackson Lab mammalian genetics class, almost done w/ the first week, we do have lectures tomorrow (Saturday), boo! I'm here w/ another postdoc from my program. So far the class is not really for us, it's mostly MDs and mostly genetics people which I am not. Today's lectures were actually the best for me to follow, more background and clinical relevance versus the specific, too-detailed work from the presenters' own labs that I have no basis to really understand.

I thought I would like Bar Harbor but I can't say I'm very thrilled w/ it. My hotel is a disaster, the Bar Harbor Regency. The website makes it look all resorty when it is nothing like that. The staff is bad, I witnessed the crow old lady bartender that spends half her year in Florida yelling at the young kid waiters and watched them cower from her, later only to have the young waitresses come tell the crow what the boys were saying to fuel the drama. This bartender was yelling and giving attitude to customers that were ordering from her as well. Wireless isn't working, cell phone service only outside, rooms moldy, smelly, more bad service for what I think is a discounted rate for the conference of about $160 per night. I should have stayed in a nice bed n breakfast for the same rate.

Businesses in town aren't much better. A bunch of reject kids it seems doing these service jobs crappily. The kid that made our smoothies I hope was high and not just dumb. We got fudge at a place that we had to return because it was so dry and brittle and the guy tried to tell us it was okay. I had to return my crab-stuffed haddock another day because it was cold in the middle and the sauce tasted 'funny' in one area. That woman was nice about it though.

Yesterday was a good day here in that respect. I found out Aunt Margaret died yesterday morning. She was 85 and living in a rehab place, awful quality of life, she had told my Aunt last week she wanted to jump out the window, so it's good she died, it was just bad because she was awake and had a heart attack and was DNR so the nurses just watched her die. Doesn't sound pleasant. Also, my dad's dog has renal insufficiency and it's pretty serious and I called the vet to talk to him and told my dad he should move his dog to an emergency clinic but he didn't want to insult the doctor basically by removing his dog. Hope Bailey doesn't die because of this.

Anyway all that is crappy news but then last night we went back to Acadia and I ran on the Ocean Trail. It was so awesome, along the ocean, sometimes on crazy rocks and through the best scenery. Trail running is a better workout than regular running and I never do it, especially on such awesome trails. After that we ate at the Jordan Pond Restaurant. Best service and food I've had so far. Only $25 for popover, soup or salad, entree, and dessert. Food was all good, totally recommend. If I could run on those trails and eat there a lot maybe I could live here and work at Jackson. Good biking here too, road and mountain. I'd just stay away from the little town probably and potentially go more crazy.

Tara, Ban and Me

Me and the personal digital communicator

Joslynn, B-day girl

Tara, Val and the little boombox watching down Mass Ave.

More to come...

db and i are supposed to be doing pushups everyday and working up to 50 in a row. i confess i haven't been doing them EVERYday but i did do 17 yesterday. i started w/ 15 and stayed at 15 working on my form, it was kinda bad, and then yesterday added a couple, though my form was bad at the end.

you should try too, even if you have to start w/ girl ones.

c'mon jenn