{"id":850,"date":"2006-11-09T11:03:28","date_gmt":"2006-11-09T15:03:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/snarl\/2006\/11\/09\/the-happiest-photoever\/"},"modified":"2006-11-09T11:06:08","modified_gmt":"2006-11-09T15:06:08","slug":"the-happiest-photoever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/2006\/11\/09\/the-happiest-photoever\/","title":{"rendered":"The Happiest Photo&#8230;EVER!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My friend, Dave, wasn&#8217;t feeling well yesterday so he didn&#8217;t fly into Boston. He&#8217;s going to see what magic he can work with the airlines to try and get a flight on Saturday (he looked into changing it to today and they wanted to charge an extra $300 on top of what he already paid). Since the room on the Cape is non-refundable, I&#8217;m going to call and see if I can downgrade to a cheaper room or spread out the stay fover two nights (since it&#8217;s silly to let the room go to waste and since Randy and I don&#8217;t need a two story suite for just the two of us).<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and I&#8217;m stealing Karyn&#8217;s idea from yesterday and doing my &#8220;I&#8221; list:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I AM: still unable to adjust to daylight savings time (which took place nearly two weeks ago).<\/li>\n<li>I MISS: childhood naivete&#8217; (I couldn&#8217;t figure out how to get the accent mark to appear)\u00a0.<\/li>\n<li>I LONG: to be close to you (thanks Karen C).<\/li>\n<li>I WISH: I was less prone to anxiety.<\/li>\n<li>I FEEL: more optimistic today than I have the past 6 years because of this week&#8217;s elections.<\/li>\n<li>I DROVE: way too many people crazy when I was younger.<\/li>\n<li>I WANT: world peace and fluffy kittens. Or lifelong financial stability and health. Either\/or.<\/li>\n<li>I FEAR: pain and suffering. I don&#8217;t fear death, though.<\/li>\n<li>I MIGHT: never find a condo I can afford\u00a0(despite my very simple standards).<\/li>\n<li>I DISCUSSED: where this relationship with Randy is going recently. So far, so good.<\/li>\n<li>I AM EXCITED FOR: my upcoming trip to Japan.<\/li>\n<li>I AM SAD TO: admit that I tend to be selfish.<\/li>\n<li>I LIKE: who I&#8217;ve become in the past few years.<\/li>\n<li>I PLAN: everything to death. I need to loosen up.<\/li>\n<li>I DISREGARD: Gideon bibles that I find in American hotel rooms.<\/li>\n<li>I WITNESSED: the Dali Lhama walking\u00a0past me &#8211; he was just a few feet away.<\/li>\n<li>I ENJOY: urban explorations. Just walking through old cities and taking in the streetscape.<\/li>\n<li>I HATE: flying. I don&#8217;t fear it anymore&#8230;I just hate the confinement.<\/li>\n<li>I PLAYED: quarters (using just ginger ale) when I was 11 or 12 and ended up puking.<\/li>\n<li>I LOVE: that I live in an area that has four separate seasons (though they do often blend together).<\/li>\n<li>I WENT: to a sex club once (but didn&#8217;t realize that&#8217;s what it was). It was closed at the time.<\/li>\n<li>I WILL: hopefully die in my sleep.<\/li>\n<li>I KISS: yes. Yes,\u00a0I do. Quite well, I&#8217;m told.<\/li>\n<li>I HAVE: amazing parents&#8230;and am so grateful how much I lucked out.<\/li>\n<li>I DID: lots of stupid things in my youth. Who am I kidding, I continue to do stupid things.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And finally, Lise sent me the photo below and I have to say that it just may be the funniest photo I&#8217;ve seen in years. Seriously! I mean, after Jesse Helms and Tom Delay got out of politics, the only remaining senator or congressman that I feared and loathed was Rick Santorum (well, that&#8217;s not true&#8230;Trent Lott is still out there, isn&#8217;t he?). Anyway, this photo is classic. It&#8217;s like John Stewart took the photo himself to use on the Daily Show. What&#8217;s up with that girl clinging to a doll&#8230;a doll that is wearing an identical outfit as her!?!?! And that accountant-looking son (thanks, Lise)!?!?! Or the pouty chick in the back?<\/p>\n<p>Oh, this photo puts such a smile on my face.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"301\" alt=\"Santorum.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/snarl\/files\/2006\/11\/Santorum.jpg\" width=\"415\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My friend, Dave, wasn&#8217;t feeling well yesterday so he didn&#8217;t fly into Boston. He&#8217;s going to see what magic he can work with the airlines to try and get a flight on Saturday (he looked into changing it to today and they wanted to charge an extra $300 on top of what he already paid). 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