Knit-Nerd-Rant

Last night, I tried to see the rocket launch in Virginia, but managed to miss it. However, I had taken my camera with me and was going by the National Cathedral on the way back and decided to take advantage of the moment.  It's a really gorgeous building, and majestic at night. However, with the wrong settings on a DSLR camera, it can turn into a truly disconcerting, spooky experience. This one is my favorite: And then suddenly, I found the right settings. But it still quite spooky, or I was already in a fairly spooky mood. Plus, as an added bonus, a shot from near 30th Street Station in Philadelphia:

To celebrate the 4 year anniversary with the boyfriend (has it really been that long?!?!), we went up to Montreal. We had some help from a friend with an abundance of airline miles who was appreciative of help finding a job recently. The boyfriend had never been there, and it had been over 10 years since I had been, so we were in for a treat. We picked up a Fodor's guide and even had a paper AAA map on hand. I found the Hotel Ambrose on Hotels.com, and it was a pretty sweet deal for being located right in downtown (on the advice of a coworker who had lives there ages ago). Right by McGill, which was almost my undergrad alma mater, was an interesting neighborhood full of English-speaking students and tourists from all over.  then it was a question of trying to prepare my brain to start back up in French (though it's definitely possible to get around with just English, having the ability to do both makes things a lot easier, and some people a lot more friendly). Begi...