The alarm clock goes off, and the radio announces “Chrysler is alive!”
Xeno begins throwing up a hairball next to the bed. I manage to steer him into the hallway for the bulk of the activity.
And then I get to greet the following sentence in a resume:
“This position appears to be both physically and mentally demanding, [...]
Archive for April, 2009
Chaos starts the day
Posted in Festival of Bad Writing, Language failure, cats, tactless observations, tagged alarm clocks, bad writing, cats, chrysler, hairballs, mornings on 30 April, 2009 | 1 Comment »
For instance, diaper rash….
Posted in Festival of Bad Writing, tactless observations on 28 April, 2009 | 1 Comment »
“Future generations depend on the ability of society to be accountable for their actions and understand the severe consequences that may result if unchanged.”
[sigh]
Today’s sad observation
Posted in tactless observations, tagged echoes, evil, pollen, sneezing fits, Washington Square on 27 April, 2009 | 1 Comment »
When I sneeze, the sound echos off the church across the alley.
And yet, the weather is so lovely….
A river may run through it
Posted in Elsinore, Rennovations, tagged basement flooding, ecological friendliness, hydraulic cement, seasonal streams, terraforming, water, watershed on 20 April, 2009 | 5 Comments »
There’s a ’seasonal stream’ at Elsinore, and at the moment that means things are rather boggy in the side yard. Yesterday I dug out a space for the new baby Yellowwood tree [note to self: buy more compost!], carving out sod and digging a narrow gap in the ring of dirt to let the water [...]
Our newest national park: Silk City, USA [or, Paterson, if you prefer...]
Posted in Backstory, travel, tagged poetry, paterson nj, william carlos williams, waterfalls, silk city USA, national parks, I'm from New Jersey, PCR, choir, silliness on 20 April, 2009 | 3 Comments »
I expect there will be copies of William Carlos Williams’s poems in the gift shop, and maybe reproduction photos of the mills that grew up around the Paterson Falls‘ power. But alas, I do fear some people will visit because of the Sopranos connection.
On a completely different note, go watch the PCR choir from BioRad:
http://bio-rad.cnpg.com/lsca/videos/ScientistsForBetterPCR/
While choristers warble
Posted in Backstory, Gardening, Musing about Teaching, tagged choral evensong, choristers, daffodils, I hate bradford pear blossoms, spring scenes, star magnolias, warbling on 16 April, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Most of them are doing pretty well — I’m listening to the Easter service from St. George’s Chapel at Windsor Castle — now that I have the mini-speakers hooked up to my laptop again, I can hear the full <whummmmp> of the lowest registers on the pipe-organ. Very nice.
My students were warbling a bit today [...]
Festival of Bad Writing, mid-spring edition
Posted in Festival of Bad Writing on 15 April, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Today’s first contestants:
“..Issues are escalating, in need of planning well in advance in order to provide a successful outcome.”
“While there are issues with this solution, with [x process], there will always be issues.”
“Will the result be a healthier bottom, despite the initial shock?”
Honestly, doing taxes is less painful sometimes than slogging through reports.
Old, new, not exactly borrowed, but certainly blue
Posted in Backstory, Gardening, My brain, tagged bleeding hearts, bloodroot, gardens, new homes, pulmonaria, spring, white narcissus on 10 April, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
We’re getting ready for the Festival of Violets here in Elsinore — the pink ones have been here for a while, the yellow ones just arrived, the standard purple should be in later, then the speckled, dark violet, and maybe the Confederate ones [grey] will show up. But in the meantime, some other friends have [...]
Supporting your local rhetorician
Posted in Festival of Bad Writing, Musing about Teaching, tactless observations on 6 April, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
There was a bumper sticker handed out at 4Cs years ago [in the 80s, probably] by Wadsworth Publishing, that said “Support your Local Rhetorician!”
Anyone out there still have one? Bumper sticker, I mean. I had one on one of my Saturns; the remaining one is in my office, still un-stuck.
This evening I got some support [...]
