BaLtiMoRe RoLL: You'Re StiLL HeRe?

I just checked my blog stats and I have come to the conclusion that I have done some pretty good variable operant conditioning on you all because you keep coming back even when I'm not updating. See, if I updated once a week on a regular basis, you would only come back then. But now you have to keep coming back just in case I get in one of those blog moods where I post for four days straight.

So thanks everyone for visiting my blog more than I seem to lately!

Another reason I felt compelled to update is that I found that I'd gotten a couple of hits from the AOL City Guide to Baltimore. Turns out they've got me on their list of "Blogs We're Reading" and that list is only 5 blogs long. I was flattered at first, but then I noticed that the first blog is DCist (huh, didn't realize that was about Baltimore) and then there are four Baltimore ones with first letters ranging from A to C. So it seems that I was just lucky enough to choose a blog name that starts with a letter so early in the alphabet.

And I can't say the traffic from the AOL guide has been overwhelming. When I say I got a couple of hits, I mean that literally. :)

But otherwise my life is truly too boring to blog about right now. I sit at home, writing, writing, writing (my dissertation, of course, not the blog) and planning the wedding. Figuring out flowers. Setting up a registry. And let me tell you, putting together a registry sounds like it would be the most fun thing in the world, but it is a lot of work. You'd think you could just pick out dinnerware that looks nice, but no, it comes in bone china, porcelain, stoneware, etc. and they each have their pros and cons and range widely in price. So what to pick? If we just pick what looks nice, it can be hugely expensive. And we don't want to pick the absolute cheapest stuff because it's also the least durable and the whole point is that people want to get you something lasting. So we have ploddingly gone through everything, and once we pick something out I end up going back later and dumping it and picking something totally different. Eventually we'll get it up on our wedding site... (Actually, I really like a lot of the stuff we picked out. It's just that the process of picking it has been time consuming.)

See, this stuff really is too boring to write about, isn't it.

I have more photos from San Francisco, but haven't had the chance to get to them yet. (I shoot in RAW, so I can't just throw them up on the web without converting them to JPG first and resizing them and stuff.)

I'll go back to my dissertation and leave you be now. If you're in Baltimore, go check out Hopkins' Spring Fair for me. Remember when I was selling photos there last year? That was fun... Wish I was doing that tomorrow instead of writing, writing, writing.