happy friday

Last week, Daniel and I went up to Portland for a few days. The trip was my birthday present to him and we stayed with some friends who recently moved there from Seattle. I took a zillion pictures (mostly of their dog Lola) and I'll post them when I have a bit more time. For now, I'm enjoying the Stumptown coffee Daniel brought back from the trip.

Apart from Portland, nothing terribly exciting to report here. I've mostly been catching up with school work. Daniel came down spur of the moment yesterday and we took a walk around campus at night, which is one of my favorite things to do when he's here. We'll walk over to the CoHo and each get a bottle of beer and then stroll around the grounds. It's pretty nice.

This weekend, I'm hoping to check out one of the many Palo Alto happy hour spots with some friends tonight- but apart from that I'll mostly be working on a final paper that's due next week. Hope everyone has something nice they're looking forward to. 

my birthday

Yesterday was my birthday. I spent the whole day in class- this is what happens when you have a Wednesday birthday in law school- but then Daniel came down and took me out to dinner at the Lobster Shack in Portola Valley.

I'll pick a lobster roll over birthday cake any day.

Another year older! Here's to 27.

healthy spirits

To preface this, I know basically nothing about beer.

A promising start, no? But we were in the city a few weeks back to see the Girl with the Pearl Earring at the de Young and afterwards ended up walking over to Clement to check out Healthy Spirits on Clement.

The signage on the store promises "Beer, whiskey, hummus" which I thought was rather an odd combination- hummus? But apparently it's very good. And the beer selection was impressive, even (perhaps especially) to an uninformed rube such as myself. 

I chose my beer based on its label- and the advice of the very nice man working behind the counter. Foret is a saison style beer which the salesman informed me meant that it would be reasonably light, but not sweet, with a slightly barnyard-y aftertaste. This actually made me more inclined to try the beer since I like that type of strong flavor when it comes to cheese. 

When we got back to Daniel's house, we sat out on the deck and sipped our beer. The Foret was perfect for a mid-afternoon drink on a Sunday in the sunshine. 

Healthy Spirits

1042 Clement St.

SF CA 

olema

A few photos.

 

Last week, Daniel and I spent a few days in Olema, courtesy of my parents- a birthday gift from last year. I've been to Olema and Point Reyes several times but I'd never stayed out there, so this was a real treat (thank you parents!!). We stayed at Olema Druids Hall, which was wonderful- like staying at a country estate- and used it as our base for little excursions. We puttered around Point Reyes Station, eating oysters and fabulous pizza at Cafe Reyes. We bought cheese and wine and cornichons at Cowgirl Creamery. We read (me, this; Daniel, this). We drank champagne. We went hiking up along the Sky ridge trail. We went to Hog Island Oyster Co. and at raw and barbecued oysters. We sat in front of the fireplace, which Daniel fussed over while I stretched out on the couch with my feet up. We never wanted to leave. Of all of the spots on earth, Olema may be one of the very nicest.

So it was a wonderful trip. Another enormous 'thank you' and lots of air kisses to my parents for spoiling me rotten. 

here we are

...and I'm back! It's been a while but here we are in April, the start of a new month and the start of a new quarter of school for me. I just got back this morning from a spring break of sorts- Daniel and I went to Olema for a few days where we read and hiked and ate many, many oysters (the photo above is of some particularly delicious barbecued oysters we had at Hog Island) and generally relaxed. Very nice. Anyway, I took lots of pictures and would love to share but I'm off to class yet again and so will be back shortly (no April Fools', I promise). 

happy easter

winter's end

This week, I'm taking finals- the end of the winter quarter has come. While law school finals are...well, not pleasant, I can see a glimmer of light in the future. Spring break. And hopefully some time to enjoy some experiences that are more suited to sharing on this blog- I doubt anyone who reads this is much interested in my take on McCulloch v. Maryland.

See you in the spring.