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It's true, I'm not very good at keeping prese...
May 29, 2009 by Sadie in Sadie & Greg
 It's true, I'm not very good at keeping presents a secret. This is a cropped draft of the print, without the signature "sweet mocha Friday" text under her arm. Limited edition, hand-inked prints on rice paper available until Adam's birthday, when I'll break the wood block.
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Greg and I have found the most beautiful apar...
May 26, 2009 by Sadie in Sadie & Greg
 Greg and I have found the most beautiful apartment and are now competing with another couple for the prize of signing the lease. The place is so lovely that I almost cried on the way home, waiting to call and beg them to let us mop the wood floor with Murphy's oil soap every Saturday. Greg and I have a long wish list, from proximity to local diners and farms to internet and friendly neighbors. But I didn't dream of asking for a tree-lined street or a couple with an eight year old upstairs. If I ply them with enough homemade jam, maybe they'll call me aunt Sadie.
So as long as the other couple aren't both engineers who are planning to stay for five years, I think our exuberance for the place will win out.
While reading the New York Times' reporting on Sonia Sotomayor, I was distracted by a muckraking video on microwavable chicken pot pies. Although it appears to be impossible not to get salmonella poisoning, I now have a fierce thirst for pot pies. Got to get it in before the start of chicken-free living, as Greg hates the stuff. It seems like all we eat is bison these days.
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My two internships are now in place for the s...
May 19, 2009 by Sadie in Sadie & Greg
 My two internships are now in place for the summer. I'm continuing my research work at Brandeis on service-learning summer programs and helping out at the Corporation for National and Community Service, the federal agency that manages the VISTA program. I'm planning the state's Martin Luther King Jr. Day service events and getting a handle on the first 9/11 Day of Remembrance and Service. This week I'm digging up evaluations on youth civic agency for the Brandeis job. For the CNCS, I'm helping staff a public listening session for the Edward M. Kennedy Service America Act. I think juggling both will be fun and mutually reinforcing. My research boss Alan is already giving me advice on MLK Day service-learning curriculum. I'd like to think that hanging out at the federal building gives me cred in the ivory tower. I get gun checked, which is kind of gnarly.
Apartment hunting with a mathematician and a policy analyst involves serious file sharing. We have an elaborate document of every Craigslist listing from here to Worcester, with the walk score (www.walkscore.com), our respective commute times from the apartment to school, and the basics about washers, utilities and parking spots. There are a hundred towns between Worcester and Waltham, but many are zoned to keep riffraff renters out. It is a much more nuanced decision that I initially anticipated, but I get more excited about making lunches together and having a joint Netflix account every day. We're going to start looking at apartments and communities this weekend.
I've also been working on a few woodcuts. Got my first jab of the season. It's all clean and wrinkly now, but it was a blood bath last night. My sheets are disgusting.
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Yayoe, happy birthday! I hope you have a grea...
May 12, 2009 by Sadie in Sadie & Greg
Yayoe, happy birthday! I hope you have a great day.
I recently discovered the perfect discontinued side table from Ikea. Because it has three legs on one end, the top of the table slips over my couch, enabling the graduate student's dream situation: sitting on a couch with a book while typing notes. I found the last remaining Bostonian Rian Ikea side table last night on Craigslist. I'm going to pick it up at noon today! I want to thank Yayoe for giving me the perseverance it takes to pin down a great cheap find. I couldn't ask for more in an evil step mother.
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No worries, Jamie
May 07, 2009 by Sadie in Sadie & Greg
No worries, Jamie. I hear forty is the new twenty five. It's all in the company you keep.
I have one more conference presentation on service-learning policy this afternoon, and then my nights and weekends are my own!
Current summer project list:
1. Remember how to paint and print.
2. Finally fix up that bike Greg and I picked up by the side of the road in Easthampton on our anniversary (in October).
3. Learn to ride a bike.
4. Find a new apartment... my eighth in the last six years.
5. Can everything.
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Done
May 05, 2009 by Sadie in Sadie & Greg
 Done. And super sleepy.
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In an effort to blow off steam while my paper...
May 02, 2009 by Sadie in Sadie & Greg
In an effort to blow off steam while my paper was out for editing and to show solidarity with Greg, who is making and dueling robots in Dallas, I made a dress yesterday. Its Marimekko meets the Chinese cultural revolution, in a good way. I should be preparing for my labor economics exam or catching up on all the communication with friends I've ignored for a semester. But you can wear a dress. It's less fund to wear friends and labor economics problem sets. I also had a calming conversation with Jamie in the middle of a totally insanely overwhelming experience at the Container Store. She guided me away from any serious storage missteps, and I am a happy owner of a plastic object that allows for more efficient can stacking. What our grandparents did without these modern marvels, I do not know.
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