all is holy in the sink
1. I'm digging this New England April. I actually got a haircut recently because I couldn't stand the weight of my unruly mane on a randomly hot 90-degree day last week. It just actually feels like spring, in contrast to some past Aprils here when we've had the typical rainy April days but none of the concomitant sunshine. And although I do see a couple of wet, 40s-ish days this weekend, for the first spring in years that feels more like an outlier than the norm.
2. Sarah Palin is speaking on the Boston Common today; actually I think she's already finished. With her speech, I mean. Looks like a thousand or so folks were out in the Boston.com photos, although I heard reports as high as several thousand. Still, I wonder if Sean Hannity will have to use different footage when he reports it on Fox News, like he did when he put the Glenn Beck DC rally footage (10,000+ people) into the Tea Party DC rally footage (<500 people). You could actually watch the leaves change color instantly from orange back to green in that piece; I never knew he was such a great gardener.
3. I think I may try and unclog our kitchen faucet this weekend. We have good water flow from the sprayer, but little from the tap, so it seems there's probably some gunk up in there somewhere. I'm armed with my tools and a couple of books (including Sarah's "Dare to Repair: A Do-It-Herself Guide to Fixing Stuff"); wish me luck.
4. The Jeopardy interview went ok last week; pretty much the same as last time, same producer, same format (written test, mock game, personal interview). I think I did alright, although it didn't necessarily feel like a home run or anything. When I watch the show at home, I tend to either know most to all of the answers in a category, or none of them. But in the tests you take, every question is in its own category, so the topics are a bit more scattered. In any event, I'm in the contestant pool for appearances from July 2010 to December 2011. And if they don't call, I'll just go try out again.
5. I've really been enjoying the book I've been reading, Reif Larsen's "The Selected Works of T. S. Spivet". Sarah got it for me for my birthday, but I'm just now getting around to picking it up; it's a book about a prodigious twelve-year-old, an amateur cartographer and scientist living on his family's ranch in western Montana, and about the trip he takes on his own when he's invited to the Smithsonian for recognition of his submitted work. There's a lot of maps, figures, and tangents in the margins, and Larsen plays a bit with the flow of typography as Mark Danielewski does, although with more purpose and more cohesion. I really haven't been able to put it down.
2. Sarah Palin is speaking on the Boston Common today; actually I think she's already finished. With her speech, I mean. Looks like a thousand or so folks were out in the Boston.com photos, although I heard reports as high as several thousand. Still, I wonder if Sean Hannity will have to use different footage when he reports it on Fox News, like he did when he put the Glenn Beck DC rally footage (10,000+ people) into the Tea Party DC rally footage (<500 people). You could actually watch the leaves change color instantly from orange back to green in that piece; I never knew he was such a great gardener.
3. I think I may try and unclog our kitchen faucet this weekend. We have good water flow from the sprayer, but little from the tap, so it seems there's probably some gunk up in there somewhere. I'm armed with my tools and a couple of books (including Sarah's "Dare to Repair: A Do-It-Herself Guide to Fixing Stuff"); wish me luck.
4. The Jeopardy interview went ok last week; pretty much the same as last time, same producer, same format (written test, mock game, personal interview). I think I did alright, although it didn't necessarily feel like a home run or anything. When I watch the show at home, I tend to either know most to all of the answers in a category, or none of them. But in the tests you take, every question is in its own category, so the topics are a bit more scattered. In any event, I'm in the contestant pool for appearances from July 2010 to December 2011. And if they don't call, I'll just go try out again.
5. I've really been enjoying the book I've been reading, Reif Larsen's "The Selected Works of T. S. Spivet". Sarah got it for me for my birthday, but I'm just now getting around to picking it up; it's a book about a prodigious twelve-year-old, an amateur cartographer and scientist living on his family's ranch in western Montana, and about the trip he takes on his own when he's invited to the Smithsonian for recognition of his submitted work. There's a lot of maps, figures, and tangents in the margins, and Larsen plays a bit with the flow of typography as Mark Danielewski does, although with more purpose and more cohesion. I really haven't been able to put it down.