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Trip of a lifetime

I’ve been thinking a lot about traveling lately. Traveling and food (but food is nothing new). I have always loved traveling. From a young age, I used to love going to airports and watching planes take off. My mom was afraid to fly until a few years ago, and I even enjoyed long car trips, taking in the scenery that graces the interstate on many drives from Chicago to Florida or South Carolina.

I was also thinking about what I’d do if I won the lottery. Yea, I’d pay off my loans yada yada yada and boring stuff like that. I’d probably get a new car, and of course, some clothes. But I would want to embark on an amazing trip — I’d want to eat my way around the world, not literally of course.

How amazing would it be to travel all over the world and sample the local fare in each place? Yea, that might eating bugs or something not to entirely appealing, but I’d totally be up for the challenge. Hopping from place to place, eating, talking to the locals, seeing the sights. It gets me giddy just thinking about it.

Since an eating tour of the world is far fetched…heck, ever an eating tour around D.C. is too right for my blood, I’ll just sit and imagine all the deliciousness that would accompany said venture. And a girl can dream, can’t I?

What would you do if you won the lottery?

posted 2 months ago

Fall feelings

Can it please actually be fall? I’m not meaning *technically* by the calendar (which is tomorrow). I mean in how it feels outside. I want to leaves to start falling from the trees. I want it to get cooler outside. I want to be able to wear boots and jackets again.

I’m skitzo when it comes to which season I like the most. Come end of summer, I’m always antsy for fall. Come end of winter, I’m always antsy for spring. I used to not mind winter so much, back when I lived in Georgia and “cold” was hovering around 40 degrees, but a few D.C. winters have changed my perceptions. Yea, I should be used to snow and cold since I grew up in Chicago, but I don’t remember people being so crazy about it back then. I was also only 12, so what did I know?

Know what else I love about fall? Pumpkins. I really want to carve a pumpkin this year. I haven’t done one since my senior year in college when I made someone carve a Yankees insignia into a pumpkin for a horticulture class assignment (don’t hate, it was pretty ballin’). I live in an apartment now sans balcony so I wouldn’t really have a place to display it, but I’m sure I will figure something out.

What I don’t like about fall and winter is how it gets so dark so early. For someone who works til 9 at night, I don’t like it to get dark at 5. I like how in the summer, I can get out of work and there is still some semblance of twilight going on.

That is just a random post about fall. Here’s to hoping I can find some bonfire to go to or a corn maze to roam through. Keeping my fingers crossed.

posted 2 months ago

Who called it? I called it.

Location: The Washington Examiner, Friday afternoon. Jeff is sitting in sports, planning what to write for our Sunday Fearless Forecast page. For those who don’t read The Ex (which I’m fairly certain none of you do, but all of you should), it’s a page where our wonderful sports writers drum up the best games of the week, a player to watch for the week, etc. etc. As a sometimes sports staffer, they occassionally ask for my esteemed opinion (when it doesn’t include “Georgia rocks,” “Matt Ryan is awesome,” or “How about NASCAR?” So this Friday, Jeff turns to me: “Hey DeLuca, got any bold predictions for the week?” I hem and haw and then go “How about John Isner upsets Andy Roddick?” Both Jeff and Leon (the web sports editor) let out a laugh and call me on my homer-ism, but I say why not? I had almost convinced them to put it in the paper when we all realize Isner plays Saturday, not Sunday.

Well how does that prediction look now?

That is right, my friends. This here girl called it to a T and it was just what I (and most UGA fans) needed after the events of Saturday afternoon. How awesome is it that Isner won? And in such a great match too? Yea, he’s in Federer’s bracket, but who cares? I am convinced with his serve, he could beat anyone and any given day. So I am on the John Isner band wagon…and I might also be psychic.

posted 3 months ago