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Trivia, Thorns, The XX

June 7, 2013 by kristikrass

Welcome to June, the best month of the year in my book. Summer creeps in, festivals start cropping up, there’s the longest, lightest day of the year and shortly before, my birthday. Bring it on, baby. Jeff and I eased into the month with a bevy of awesomely random activities. Trivia night at The Old Gold bar in North Portland – Our trivia-loving friends Felicia and Genaro (who is an actual Jeopardy champion!), Stephen and Jen, and Jeff and I […]

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Olympic Bound

June 30, 2012 by kristikrass

Last week, Jeff and I got a taste of the impending London Olympics. On June 21, Nike – for the first time ever – hosted an official U.S. Olympic Trials event on campus. The event: hammer throw, which surprisingly doesn’t involve real hammers but heavy balls on wires. Thousands of people turned out to watch, and Nike employees drifted from their offices to grab some lunch and watch the best hammer throwers in the country duke it out for a […]

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Two Weeks of Timbers, TED and Talk Shows

March 22, 2012 by kristikrass

…and rain. Two straight weeks of chilly, gray, rainy days. This is when any report of higher suicide rates in the Northwest makes a little bit of sense. Okay, it’s not SO bad, but it makes it worse when the Midwest is enjoying freakish 85-degree days. But talk to me again in July when it’s heavenly here. A couple Mondays ago Jeff, my co-worker Kristen, her roomie Nicole and I cheered the Portland Timbers in their second season home opener. Kristen […]

Categories: Our Oregon Trail • Tags: breweries, eugene, games, Timbers, vacation