Archive for May, 2011
this is complicated
It must be summer, because I don’t have a normal work week for about the next month. Let’s see …. this week is a three-day week, because we have Thursday and Friday off for Ascension Day. Next week there’s one half day that will be devoted to a sector meeting and a farewell barbeque for […]
Irrelevant observations
It is odd to see Obama addressing both houses of the British Parliament in Westminster Abbey, beginning with “My Lord Chancellor …. My Lords.” They’re not, in fact, his lords. It just didn’t sound right in his mouth. Walking around town this evening, I noticed one shop window with a mannequin who caught my eye […]
grateful
It’s a day to be grateful for things, I guess. Right now – now, this minute as I write this – there’s a funeral over in England for a young man who died at 28 of colon cancer. I only know of this through his wife’s posts on Ravelry, but somewhere she wrote that they’d […]
More on Welcome to Borderland
I read the introductions (by Holly Black and Terri Windling) and quick-read the city guide Bordertown Basics, the first story by Ellen Kushner and Terri Windling, and the last by Charles de Lint. I’ll read them again later for the detail. No, I wasn’t goofing off; I was hungry anyway, so I went to lunch […]
Amazon is a tease
I just got an email receipt from Amazon for Welcome to Bordertown, which I’d preordered some tie ago. So of course I opened the Kindle app on my iPhone to see if I could download it. It wasn’t there. 🙁 It occurred to me that it might just be a little delayed, so next I […]
cooking and charity (unrelated topics)
I don’t think I slept well enough last night (maybe because Ted left for Taiwan yesterday). I can tell because I just started to write an entry about our upcoming travel plans and had it mostly done before I remembered that I already said that. Sunday wasn’t quite as nice as Saturday; most importantly, of […]
pretty good so far
Except for Ted still being sick (and having to leave tomorrow for Taiwan), I’m having a good day. Iust booked our tickets for the Paris Airshow … the weekend after we go to Budapest. This is going to be exhausting; we come back that Monday, I have a department gathering all that week, then we […]
Bear sighting (well, hearing)
Well, that was bizarre. I knew Matociquala likes Criminal Minds; I didn’t realize the show likes her in return. (They quoted her during a show intro. Apparently everyone but me already knew about this, as a quick Google reveals. Then again, I didn’t even know the show Ted was watching was Criminal Minds until I […]
jambalaya, crawfish pie, and regatta…
Thursday night I got a call from a local rower: could I cox his quad in a race on Sunday? Apparently they were desperate, because all of the people who usually do it were already scheduled to cox or row other boats. (In the US, quads (four rowers, two oars each) are usually “straight”, meaning […]
other stuff
In a separate post because I wanted to keep the book-publishing discussion as its own thing. Knitting: I should finish the current project this weekend, which is good because I’m especially eager to see what happens when I block it. The black yarn has been coming off a bit on my hands, and I am […]