Monday, August 31, 2009

Late summer in Philly (really...so late?)


Shabbat dinner at Emma's house with lots of singing and tasty food.
Lovely dinner setting I arrived to after work on Friday.
Jenn and Cat at a pool party :)
Cat at Flaming Lips concert at Philadelphia's outside concert venue at Penn's Landing. The concert began with the lead singer rolling out onto the crowd in a giant, clear bubble.
There were clouds of confetti and gelatenous baloons six feet accross that filled the sky
and I was there with friends after going to a very tasty Indian restaurant in Fishtown. Then it began to pour and we played in the rain storm far after the band stopped playing and then I biked home in flooded streets.
The next morning Ram and I drove out to Downingtown with the primary goal of testing the water termperature of the lake we will be going the triathlon swimming in on Sept 20
After putting our feet in the water and scoping out the nearby trails - the trip was deemed a success and we headed home.

Sunday, August 16, 2009

Running hard

I have been learning a new job at work for the last 5 weeks, and have been training 6 days a week for my first triathlon. The swimming and biking have been really fun and becoming a manager certainly gives me lots of new things to think about but I am looking forward to creating more space.
...although this ride on the carousel during lunch was pretty lovely.

I rode as many different animals as possible. Jumping off, running to the next one, and hopping on, in addition to the twirling and the galloping animals was a lovely break in the day.
This is me in the rest room at Sabrina's cafe. I figured my sis would appreciate this mirror. I had a mahi mahi lettuce wrap with mango sauce.
Here is a glass orb on a metal petastol during a Chinese dynasty around 1600AD. I went to the art museum yesterday and am looking forward to the Picasso exhibit coming soon.

I am headed now to Philadelphia's "First Baptist Church" as part of 2009 Spirituality Tour. I am hoping for some good singing :) After that, over to Ram's for some more work on the joint painting we've been working on for several months...so many yellow ovals.