Yours Truly, Ellen

Pretty spring day! My walk to work #amnh #nofilter (at 77th St. Fountain at AMNH)

My brain can't take this. *Curling up into a fetal position under my desk*

#queenszoo #birds #eagles (Taken with Instagram at Queens Zoo)

Silly kids climbing all over trapdoor #spider at the #AMNH #SpidersAlive exhibition #NYDailyNews (Taken with Instagram at American Museum of Natural History)

In my apartment corridor this AM! #PleasantSurprise #PrettyBugs #NatureRocks #Dragonfly #Dragon (Taken with Instagram)

Pretty macarons at Laduree NYC! Me = sucker for cute packaging (Taken with Instagram at Maison Ladurée)

@AMNH #Spiders Alive installation. Look out for #SpiderManWeek event tomorrow. (Taken with Instagram at American Museum of Natural History - Creatures of Light)

I could not stop laughing up my coffee this morning.

#spottheshuttle (Taken with instagram)

Pretty Friday morning crossing the 59th St. Bridge. I <3 spring in New York!

My girlfriend’s youngest sister came over to our apartment last weekend with her hair in a Katniss braid. She hadn’t been to a convention or a movie screening. That was just how she wanted to go out into the world that day. The Hunger Games has been consuming the majority of her brainpower lately. She’s been binging on the soundtrack, and she got through Catching Fire in seven hours. At a recent family dinner, she put up her hands and walked away from me when I said I preferred Gale to Peeta (I’m sorry, I do!). She gets like this about books and movies. She’s read The Silmarillion multiple (!) times. We have talked repeatedly about how much we’re both looking forward to The Avengers. But while she was over the other day, she said something offhand that surprised me. She and her friends won’t go to our local comic book and SF/F store. Setting foot in there, apparently, makes you a geek.

Beginning my Tough Mudder training. My brother's idea. Note to self: gloves. (Taken with instagram)

Little city treasures (Taken with instagram)

...28, 29, 30, and 31 #peep #smores. Whew! I take it back about the butterfly jellybeans. (Taken with instagram)

#Butterfly #jellybean #Easter party favors. If I see or smell another jellybean, it will be too soon. (Taken with instagram)

#AMNH Creatures of Light exhibition (Taken with Instagram at American Museum of Natural History)