Archive for March, 2012
Springeþ þe wude nu
Apropos of nothing, I have a new theory: that the bounding guitar part of Richard Thompson’s song Beeswing was inspired by the tune of Sumer is i-Cumen in. (I’ve known the words to the latter since high school, but have only heard the tune in recent years, thanks mostly to Thompson himself and his 1000 [...]
What Would Amelia Bloomer Think?
While riding my bike to work this morning, I was thinking of Amelia Bloomer, and wondering what she’d think of my clothing. We’ve been having beautiful clear and dry weather, which means there’s a big temperature differential between morning and afternoon. It was a bit nippy this morning (49F / 9.5C) but I decided to [...]
Didn’t really *need* to … but I did anyway
Went home early with a headache today. Not a bad one, just …. I don’t know, a dull ache across the back of my neck and a feeling this could get worse or could be headed off. I got through the morning OK, when I had to present to my whole department: I knew the [...]
Paula Passes
The year is at Spring, The day stands at morn And morning’s at 7, the sky still dawn-hazed; the daffodils blooming The trees are in bud. I’m on my bike, All’s right with the world! (I couldn’t quite manage Browning’s nifty abcdabcd rhyme scheme. Oh, well.) Today I invested in my eventual well-being, and rode [...]
I’ve been a wild rover
My travel plans are shaping up for the next few months. So far this year, I’ve been to Japan and Lisbon, but the pace will be picking up: April: two more weekends and then on the third we leave for Oregon. We have bonded with our house there to a ridiculous extent, somehow, and love [...]
Decisions, decisions
I need to decide whether to go to Philadelphia in June or not. (Ted would probably not go with me.) Pro: 1. There’s a family reunion that coincides with the birthday of my Dad 2. … who has just had surgery for lung cancer (healing well and his lymph nodes are cancer free, hooray!) 3. [...]
I am a coincidence!
I have just peeked into Donna Gephart’s Olivia Bean, Trivia Queen, which was released Tuesday. At the beginning of the book, it says the following: This is a work of fiction. All incidents and dialogue, and all characters with the exception of some well-known historical and public figures, are products of the author’s imagination, and [...]
Yum (with parenthetical inserts)
That was actually pretty darn tasty. Pan-fried salmon (because we came back from Lisbon on Tuesday afternoon, and thus were actually not at work for once on Market Day) with sesame-soy drizzle (because, I am happy to report, Mark Bittman is much better on cooking than he is on baking) with a tomato-mozzarella salad (we’ll [...]
halfway?
I was thinking this morning that it’s quite possible that tomorrow will be the halfway point in my life, barring accident or disease. My great-grandmother lived to be 84, my grandmother lived to 86 …. fill in the progression. Tomorrow I will be 45. Of course I hope for improvements in geriatrics and other public [...]
New knitting pattern available
I’ve posted a new knitting pattern on Ravelry: Giverny Fingerless Mitts. Rav members and non-members alike can get the pattern here. The mitts are a quick knit in fingering-weight yarn – this is best with a variegated sock yarn on the slightly heavier side with short color repeats to show off the lifted stitch pattern [...]