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G’night everybody….
Archive for July, 2008
Questions that you can’t ask on a Tolkien quiz…
Posted in Uncategorized on 31 July, 2008 | 6 Comments »
Thunder rolls….
Posted in Uncategorized on 30 July, 2008 | 1 Comment »
….and magically, mercifully, the screaming children from the daycare center are herded inside.
In more charitable news, the lantana I purchased last Friday has indeed succeeded in attracting the local hummingbird. Yay!
What did we do without official dorm decor?
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged cake, college, dorm decor, frosting, looking back, new scholastic year, shopping, target on 29 July, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Yes, this is going to be a kvetchy post. The “in my day, there was one payphone and one on-campus phone per hall and we all managed to survive” kind of post. If this seems too alien, go play at Target for the next few minutes…they will have more than enough STUFF to [...]
Anger and Beauty
Posted in Uncategorized on 28 July, 2008 | 3 Comments »
If you happen to be in one of the neighborhoods with a Lebanese Taverna, you probably already know that you should go eat there. If you haven’t yet, please do so. Yum!
Yesterday, in between thunderstorms in DC, I took several trains to meet Angry, D, and WordT for dinner. I didn’t get to go up [...]
Dear Island Press….
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged kvetchiness, Musing about Teaching on 26 July, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
If you are going to bother posting the chapter titles of your books, could they maybe match the chapter titles visible in the Table of Contents facsimile posted at Amazon? Thanks ever so much….
Speaking of the environment, the giant rudbeckia is in full bloom now, delighting local pollinators and tempting the goldfinches, who eagerly anticipate [...]
Stuck in the staircase with you
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Beatles nostalgia, laptops, Leia, lightning, thunderstorms on 23 July, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Leia hates thunderstorms. It is the one time she comes downstairs and actually gets close to people. She takes up residence in the lower “house” section of the cat tree in the hallway, or she runs up to Malkin and rubs against him, sometimes crying. Tonight I happened to be petting Malkin when she ran [...]
Not exactly ready for her close-up…
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged cat blogging, Himalayan, Himmie, Leia, third cat, who owns whom? on 21 July, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
But here she is anyway: Leia!
A few days ago, when we came downstairs to give the cats their evening meal, there she was, very much the Princess, blocking access to the food [it's in the low cabinet she's sitting on]. I didn’t dare use a flash; we’re trying to convince her that people are [...]
A tribute ABBA might not appreciate
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged ABBA, drag, Filking, Meryl Streep, Pop music, Questionable taste on 18 July, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The first time I saw a picture of Meryl Streep, she was looking uncertainly back at me from the cover of The French Lieutenant’s Woman, which was the required reading for my freshman English class. Now I see her on my television, flouncing down the dock in overalls on some fabulous Greek isle that is [...]
Washing out my words on a summer evening
Posted in Gardening, Musing about Teaching on 15 July, 2008 | 4 Comments »
As evening fades into night, and the stoner cockroach calliope summons the neighborhood children to buy ice cream, I take a moment to remember the drying overhead projector sheets on the lawn.
[I then take a different moment to think whether I would have caught merry hell for the above sentence in my college creative writing [...]
Another quote: kvetching about modern music
Posted in Uncategorized on 15 July, 2008 | 3 Comments »
There’s a tagline used at the end of a short radio spot about classical music that goes something like “reminding you that all music was once new”. I appreciate the thought, but that doesn’t change my preference for harmony over dissonance, and for tunes I might want to hum or whistle in the future. [...]
