Archive for June, 2009

Feeling Genki

Thursday, June 18th, 2009

I had a really nice lunch with my sister, brother-in-law, nephew, and my cousin Tuesday at a great sushi shop in Wilmington called Genki Sushi. It's my new favorite Japanese restaurant in the whole state. It's sort of like a cross between a sushi bar and an izakaya (which is ...

I Hate I-95 (But My GPS Loves It.)

Sunday, June 14th, 2009

I made it safely to Wrightsville Beach, NC, where we have a big family get-together every year. It involves eating way too much food and a lot of staring at the ocean. There's also a lot of setback involved. Setback is a card game that apparently only the people in my ...

Cannoli Quest

Saturday, June 13th, 2009

Tonight I completed a dangerous and important task. I got cannoli for the big family get-together in Wrightsville Beach, NC. Since I'm in Baltimore, I might as well find an Italian bakery and give it a shot, right? I decided to try to find one of the branches of Vaccaro's Italian ...

Baltimore is Expenive, and Other Obvious Things.

Friday, June 12th, 2009

I've got some extra time to kill, since I'm skipping some of the Organized Fun Events at the conference, and instead just being a tourist here in Baltimore. I've only ever spent the night in Baltimore once, about 8-9 years ago, so I want to take the chance to see ...

Arrival in Baltimore

Thursday, June 11th, 2009

So, after a somewhat uncomfortable drive on I-95, I made it to Baltimore for the Investigative Reporters and Editors conference. Along the way, my TomTom GPS decided that no, the Beltway isn't a perfectly good way of going around Washington D.C. Instead, it kept insisting that I wanted to get off ...