I so fail.
I fail at commenting, and I fail at updating. I promise I'll try to do better, although I think I probably only have about three people left on my friends list by this point anyway.
I'm on the Left Coast this week, in sunny northern-ish California. The weather here amazes me. Every morning it's foggy and gray, and then suddenly and miraculously, shortly before lunch, it seems spontaneously to vanish and the landscape is deluged in oceans of sunshine. I'm here attending a work-related conference-type-thing (it's really more like summer camp for academics), and we have a crazy schedule, non-stop from 7:30 a.m. until after 11 every night. Yesterday we had a free afternoon, though, so I thought it would be fun to walk to the beach... It was fun, and fun to splash around in the Pacific and wriggle my toes in the sand, but about the last mile and a half back up to the campus was less of a delight. I took a wrong turn on the way down, so in all I think I walked at least twelve miles. My feet were actually sore today. Maybe next time I'll take the bus ;)
By the way, I'm in desperate need of some new icons, and maybe a new header (I might go back to the whole having-a-header thing.) So if any kind, artistic soul is reading this, I would just be THRILLED if someone would help me out!
I did NOT forget Helen Mirren's birthday; I just had to celebrate very quietly while on a transcontinental flight. I was on Jet Blue, and they actually showed an excerpt from Helen's Times Talk. Crazy, huh? So I sort of mentally sang "Happy Birthday" to her while I flew over the Rockies or wherever.
Also, I'm officially in love with Meryl Streep again. A little Streep, a little Mirren -- life is good.
I'm on the Left Coast this week, in sunny northern-ish California. The weather here amazes me. Every morning it's foggy and gray, and then suddenly and miraculously, shortly before lunch, it seems spontaneously to vanish and the landscape is deluged in oceans of sunshine. I'm here attending a work-related conference-type-thing (it's really more like summer camp for academics), and we have a crazy schedule, non-stop from 7:30 a.m. until after 11 every night. Yesterday we had a free afternoon, though, so I thought it would be fun to walk to the beach... It was fun, and fun to splash around in the Pacific and wriggle my toes in the sand, but about the last mile and a half back up to the campus was less of a delight. I took a wrong turn on the way down, so in all I think I walked at least twelve miles. My feet were actually sore today. Maybe next time I'll take the bus ;)
By the way, I'm in desperate need of some new icons, and maybe a new header (I might go back to the whole having-a-header thing.) So if any kind, artistic soul is reading this, I would just be THRILLED if someone would help me out!
I did NOT forget Helen Mirren's birthday; I just had to celebrate very quietly while on a transcontinental flight. I was on Jet Blue, and they actually showed an excerpt from Helen's Times Talk. Crazy, huh? So I sort of mentally sang "Happy Birthday" to her while I flew over the Rockies or wherever.
Also, I'm officially in love with Meryl Streep again. A little Streep, a little Mirren -- life is good.