Monthly Archives: September 2008

Culture

election polling

September 28, 2008 – 10:43 pm

Despite the fact that I am Canadian, I’ve found the coverage of this year’s U.S. presidential election extremely fascinating. (Even Sherwin is hooked!) In particular, I’m very impressed by the sophistication of a number of websites that have been tracking the plethora of polls and (in some cases) make predictions of what will happen on read more »

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Culture

baseball night

September 19, 2008 – 5:42 pm

we headed to US Cellular field (aka Comiskey Park) with our friends Tom, Anne and Ibrahim to watch the White Sox play against the Detroit Tigers in an evening game last weekend. after a couple days of pouring rain, we were lucky the rain stopped just in time. we sat right behind home plate (although read more »

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General

more fun at ikea

September 14, 2008 – 1:46 pm

now that we’ve settled into our new place, it was time for another visit to ikea for miscellaneous things we needed including a kitchen island, cabinet door knobs, a garbage can and mirror. as always, an ikea trip wouldn’t be complete without some swedish meatballs and an extra long receipt.

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Work

weekend of labor

September 1, 2008 – 10:25 pm

i guess it’s appropriate that we spent the labor day long weekend moving into our new home. joe was recently given the opportunity to pastor our small church here in hyde park while he finishes his phd program at university of chicago. and so we will also be living in the parsonage, which is part read more »

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