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[mrissa]

I am still extremely boring to babies. It's good to have talents.

The wee beast continues to feel better. Yay, better. Today she has just been the happiest wee beast. Apparently good health agrees with her mood.

One of you asked where I like to take people when they're visiting. Oh, I've talked about these a bit, I think -- Minnehaha Falls and the Conservatory up at Como Park, driving the River Road, walking around Lake of the Isles. Bits of green and wet, or bits of ice and snow, depending on when the visitors come. If the visitors in question are interested in books, we'll maybe go to Uncle Hugo's and Dreamhaven; if they're feeling Scandophilic or anthropological, the American Swedish Institute and Ingebretsen's. A lot of people have never seen a grocery store as wonderful as Byerly's before. MIA is nice, and free. greykev and I walked Ista in our local park, and that was good fun, too.

I love this whole city, is the thing. Even the bits I hate. (The Crosstown and 35W running together: yarg, why did they think that was a good idea?) I can keep a running travelogue going as I drive anywhere: "And that place is really no good for pulla -- you'd think they would be, but their pulla is boring -- and here's the place that's in all of my dreams that involve education -- and those people served me a basket made out of cheese and it was so good -- and...."

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[retrobabble.livejournal.com]

I'd like to be on the book and food tour, please. *g*

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Honey, you say when.

[evangoer.livejournal.com]

Oh, babies are easy. *All* babies love, love, love peek-a-boo. As long as you can manage to keep playing peek-a-boo with them, they will think you are more exciting than the Teletubbies and Andy Dick put together.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

She's 2 weeks old. She is not old enough to get peek-a-boo. And by "boring to babies," I mean that I have a skill: hand me the baby, and they will go to sleep.

This is not a problem.

[skzbrust.livejournal.com]

"(The Crosstown and 35W running together: yarg, why did they think that was a good idea?)"

You have fallen into the common error of thinking that 62 is a highway, just because it has a number. It isn't. It is a very long exit and entrance ramp. And it was designed that way because the people who designed it got hold of some really, really good shit, man.

[fredcritter.livejournal.com]

heh. writers . . .

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

I thought of you and this yesterday as I parked drove on the Crosstown. I suspect it may have been some really, really bad shit, man.

[fredcritter.livejournal.com]

Back when I was travelling around the country, staying with fen in various cities for longish periods of time and working temp to support myself, I discovered that I was, in fact, serving at least one very useful function. See, when I would get to town (or sometime shortly thereafter) my friends would inevitably take me around to "see the sights," which, frankly, were almost always good and interesting sights (or sites or whatever), but to which, upon inquiry, my friends would confess they'd never before been or had only been the once before "when Walter was in town for a visit" or somesuch. So, you see, my being in town would provide them with an excuse to go and see all those interesting places around their town they'd never managed to get to, or were afraid to go to because "only tourists go there" or whatever.

[papersky.livejournal.com]

Yes, that's just how I feel about people being in town, a great excuse to go to all those cool places I otherwise have no especial reason to go to in my daily life.

I also think that if you have to move somewhere you don't know anyone, choosing somewhere that the people you already know would like to visit is a smart idea.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

San Francisco area was good for that: even if people had no particular urge to visit there (which some did), a surprising number of our friends and relations had to go to northern California for conferences and meetings and other work obligations in the four years we lived there.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

We seem to be better than average about that. When we lived in California, I was determined not to be one of those people who had lived somewhere for years and then moved away and went, "Oh, did they have big trees near here? Huh, wonder if those were cool. There was a modern art museum of some sort? Really?" etc. So we'd go places when people were out for visits, but we would also wander off and just go to the Museum of Comic Book Art for an afternoon, or find out what Japantown in San Jose was like, or whatever.

And now that we're here, I want to wallow in our stuff. So.

[hypatia-j.livejournal.com]

If you've got a really GOOD place to get pulla in the metro area, I'd love to hear it.

My mom sometimes brings me some from the Menagha bakery. It's the best I've encountered since all the relatives who made it regularly are now departed.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

No good place to get pulla yet. I am going to have to resort to learning to make my own. Sigh.