Monthly Archives: May 2011

this is complicated

Posted on May 30, 2011 by dichroic

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 … Continue reading →

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Irrelevant observations

Posted on May 27, 2011 by dichroic

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 … Continue reading →

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grateful

Posted on May 26, 2011 by dichroic

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 … Continue reading →

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More on Welcome to Borderland

Posted on May 24, 2011 by dichroic

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 … Continue reading →

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Amazon is a tease

Posted on May 24, 2011 by dichroic

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. 🙁 … Continue reading →

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cooking and charity (unrelated topics)

Posted on May 23, 2011 by dichroic

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 … Continue reading →

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pretty good so far

Posted on May 21, 2011 by dichroic

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; … Continue reading →

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Bear sighting (well, hearing)

Posted on May 18, 2011 by dichroic

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 … Continue reading →

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jambalaya, crawfish pie, and regatta…

Posted on May 17, 2011 by dichroic

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 … Continue reading →

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other stuff

Posted on May 13, 2011 by dichroic

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. … Continue reading →

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