Thaw before reheating.
{ 2005 11 25 }
Keeping with tradition, the four of us played “Settlers of Catan” — three games while Will slept. Breaking from tradition (which is that Skip usually beats us to pieces) I actually won *all three* games! (Granted, they were seriously close games.) Still, we took it as a sign that this is going to be a good week of luck for me as I prepare to take comps on Thursday and Friday…yikes! 
Posted by holly on Friday, November 25th, 2005, at 7:42 pm, and filed under Uncategorized.
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Regular dishes on life in New Orleans, historic home renovation, raising kids, completing a PhD, travel near and far, global concerns, and health issues.
You know the story, right? International health... work all over the place... drag my kids around in sacks through villages in Central America... yadda yadda. I decided to go for another degree, so in 2004 we moved to New Orleans with no intention of staying. Then Katrina. And then *blink*blink* New Orleans is a completely different place and we just can't leave. Suddenly I'm on TV talking about immigrants and health and Paul is starting a company. Or two. His side is high-tech, mine is community health and our lives are yearly evacuation, regular celebrations, and nonstop work here, there, and everywhere. Our door is always open. I only ask that if you decide to go ahead and make yourself that mint julep, you make one for me, too.
We strive to make our life our argument.
Fluorescences | 25-Nov-05 at 7:55 pm | Permalink
Man, Settlers of Catan was a bloodsport when we played in Seattle. Ish … we needed restraining orders from each others by the end of the game. But they were fun.
Holly | 26-Nov-05 at 5:53 pm | Permalink
Don’t be deceived by the smiley picture, we are pretty serious about this game. (However compared to the blood and tears shed during a family Pictionary game, Catan is quite mild.) Paul and Skip held an embargo on all trade with me for the majority of the first and well into the second and third games (he argued that the US didn’t let the axis countries build up armies for years after WWII.) Emily and I were neck-and-neck for the win for all three, and Paul and Skip were close in as well. (I had a trend of gaining points early and then stalling for the last few.) Interestingly, we noticed that the conversation on the game kept focusing on “the luck of the dice,” whereas when they had a good play, the conversation was around “skill” in the game.
Anonymous | 27-Nov-05 at 6:06 am | Permalink
**cough* bull *cough*
Holly | 28-Nov-05 at 8:43 am | Permalink
Cough it up, fuzzball! I kicked your butt. 🙂