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Today is my very last day in the office
July 17, 2008 by Sadie in Sadie & Greg
Today is my very last day in the office. I'll be at a close of service event tomorrow, at a pre-service orientation training next week (my fifth July in Beverly, MA- it all feels full-circle at this point), and in Atlanta for my last week of service. It will be such a relief to get to August, settle in and have some breathing room to do the little things like fix my grotesque exhaust leak and get health insurance.
One of the things on my to-do list for the last six months, in preparation for school, was to buy a new laptop. And that is what I am typing on right now. It is absurdly fancy, and I got a free ipod touch and printer with it. I don't really know what to do with myself, hating technology and all. I just finished the last meal that I will ever eat at this desk. All our plates are in boxes at home, so I'm hand to mouth with bagels and burritos for another few days.
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This weekend is my friend Morgan's wedding, t...
July 09, 2008 by Sadie in Sadie & Greg
 This weekend is my friend Morgan's wedding, to none other than my favorite high school math tutor, Josh. Not only is it an absolute joy to see the two of them so happy together, and to bear witness to such a perfect match, but it's basically going to be an awesome high school reunion. Morgan and I ran in the same crowd in high school and I met lots of her college friends when I visited her for Thanksgiving or for her most fantastic Vagina Monologue production (she was the tax lawyer turned dominatrix). Josh's friends are all people I wish I had been friends with. Alas, I was a little too shy to chill with the kids that were reading the same science fiction and fantasy that I secretly read. Anna is flying in from San Francisco to be my guest to the wedding, and we've spent many phone conversations discussing how to match without matching.
Which leads me to the challenge of this whole beautiful shindig. Morgan asked me to read an Edna St. Vincent Millay sonnet in the service, and while I was planning to wear a short blue babydoll dress that I already own, it was far too short for a windy outdoor wedding in and reading a poem in front of grandparents. And, like many of the Miller women, the beatings on my legs whisper hemophiliac. No one want to see that kind of bruising at a wedding. So I bought a longer dress. But it wasn't going to match with any shoes I have left in Rhode Island (I faintly recall other shoes, that I carefully boxed and moved to Waltham, thinking "when will I ever need a pair of heels?"). Living in a city with a three-story, carpeted mall, one could hypothetically find a pair of shoes in an evening. Yet three hours and two-six trips to every store with women's shoes in the Providence Place Mall, my credit card lay untouched. Quite flustered, I called Seraph, who advised red and shiny, and it only took an hour to find shiny red shoes and a matching clutch the next day. Thank God for having a fashion designer in the family. Who needs a doctor in he family, when we can always have advice on how to look of the moment?
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One of the things I've enjoyed about living i...
July 02, 2008 by Sadie in Sadie & Greg
 One of the things I've enjoyed about living in Providence is the thriving local food community. In addition to my own foray into vegetable gardening in a community garden, which offers its own social and edible benefits, I live on a park with a Thursday farmer's market. It's not San Francisco, with cheap, plentiful, perfect produce lining the entire block, but it's intimate and enough for the few days I can manage to sit down and eat at my own table. I'm also an avid ready of Edible Rhody, which included my friend's cheese company, Naragansett Creamery, in it's spring issue. I want to eat every issue, which I think is the idea of food magazines. It's a bit different than Gourmet, which has a smugness that sours the pure love of eating good food.
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