Hello Again from the hustle-bustle of the Institute
Too much good stuff happening to even take time to blog about it,
but since I have met some new local folks on LJ and in "real" life,
and finding people I used to know on the internets,
(mostly MySpace), here's a link back to the tags of glory.
The bar-graph of visitation is pretty lame now, because I haven't been doing polls or posting here for several days. Hello. Really I need to do a new & improved welcome page, but since I've been too busy to have a theme-of-the-month on my LJ for the last few months, that ol' November welcome page is still remarkably comprehensive. Lots of good entries between then and now, but they are sort of random, as the kids say. Actually they really are random, not the way kids use the word random, which seems to mean surprising or out-of-context or something. Lil' slackers.
This spring I was offered the opportunity to write a monthly column in the newsletter at my "new" job (which I will have been at a year this summer). It is a fun challenge to try to be entertaining while also being workplace-appropriate, which I take to mean apolitical and BRIEF. Good practice for me. Likewise, it has taken me a long time to realize I'm happy there and start decorating the cube, and there again I must be careful what I put up, even though I make no pretense of being normal, still. So I went through everything I've scanned of my art and photos and my friend's art and photos, and chose for spring, (just to have a way to narrow the selection down) pictures that are mostly green or that I tinted that way when I saved them.
Since decorating with seasonal themes is a kick, I might do Yellow and Gold for summer, Orange for fall, red and green for xmas and then branch out in to other colors next year, by gawd. All the ancestral photos that were black and white had an interesting tendency to want to be tinted a certain color, and it seems like there was an automatic balance of about the same numbers in each of red, amber (hard to do orange on most photos), yellow, gold, green, teal, blue, indigo, purple, fuschia, pink, and maroon. I mean I didn't count how many I did in each color when I scanned them, but there were a bunch in each color, which is good. In fact, it woulda bothered me a lot if any colors had been missing from the colors that the pictures seemed to look best in.
The night gig is still good, in terms of lots of downtime, and getting to have fun with KR a few nights a week. She says the changes I've made in my life this year have made it seem like there's been a weight lifted from my shoulders. She is correct, and it's refreshing to have someone be happy for me and recognize me being happier. My cousin calls it my "quest" although it's more like stepping away from getting badmouthed and yelled at than it is questing towards something.
Soon I must blog about the writing class I took in late winter, taught by The! Great! Lynda! Barry! For now I'll just say you should totally take her class next time she teaches it near you! This is, as Lynda would say NOT JIVE! It will be one of the most fun weekends you've had in a long time, no matter WHO you are! She teaches it all over the country but since she now is based close to our lucky town, I hope she'll do a Madison session again soon!
My first column for the "Betty's Corner" column was a very short review of the Laurie Anderson concert I went to a few weeks ago, and my first visit to the Overture Center(yes it takes me a long time to catch up with new places and events). The entire long-ass version of that article will be here on the LJ soon, where time is more my limitation than space is.
Little Laurie's apartment was broken into last Monday. I'm nervous and upset about it. She is not. Burglary is so commonplace in my hometown that people don't freak that much about it. She was not home and nothing important was taken. Even in our dad's neighborhood, which seems safer and quieter, they have had break-ins, and Laurie says ya don't move or not-stay somewhere just because of that. I don't know what I would do. I'd be freaked, that's for sure. Anyway her neighbor scared them off and called the cops and the landlords had fixed her door by the time she got home. Now who is going to fix my nerves? Can they send over a nerve-repair technician right away. Oh well, she's okay and I'm feeling good this weekend. Sundays are not usually this great for me, but it's a beautiful day, I don't got to do nothing but relax (which means, for virgos, clean the house and organize things for a real long time). Can't spend it all on the internest...
Even though I've been neglecting to post here, I've been finding springtime-relevant clips to share! In today's clip the Jolly Green Giant wasn't really a tv icon yet, and he was SCARY. You have to imagine the green. Imagine the greeeeennnn...
The youtube uploader claims it's from the year that Laurie and I hatched, which means lotsa shows were in black 'n' white and the ones that weren't still proudly advertised "In Living Color" or had "technicolor" as a subtitle or in the credits. Now, who all of my readers is also a synaesthete and can imagine gray images as green? Please indicate by a show of hams.
Anyone, Anyone?
Time travel movies from the Netflix queue are finally here. Yes, they will be disappointing mostly, but that's okay because there's always that first few minutes where it seems like they're gonna do something interesting with the premise. More on that (and everything else) later, taters.
but since I have met some new local folks on LJ and in "real" life,
and finding people I used to know on the internets,
(mostly MySpace), here's a link back to the tags of glory.
The bar-graph of visitation is pretty lame now, because I haven't been doing polls or posting here for several days. Hello. Really I need to do a new & improved welcome page, but since I've been too busy to have a theme-of-the-month on my LJ for the last few months, that ol' November welcome page is still remarkably comprehensive. Lots of good entries between then and now, but they are sort of random, as the kids say. Actually they really are random, not the way kids use the word random, which seems to mean surprising or out-of-context or something. Lil' slackers.
This spring I was offered the opportunity to write a monthly column in the newsletter at my "new" job (which I will have been at a year this summer). It is a fun challenge to try to be entertaining while also being workplace-appropriate, which I take to mean apolitical and BRIEF. Good practice for me. Likewise, it has taken me a long time to realize I'm happy there and start decorating the cube, and there again I must be careful what I put up, even though I make no pretense of being normal, still. So I went through everything I've scanned of my art and photos and my friend's art and photos, and chose for spring, (just to have a way to narrow the selection down) pictures that are mostly green or that I tinted that way when I saved them.
Since decorating with seasonal themes is a kick, I might do Yellow and Gold for summer, Orange for fall, red and green for xmas and then branch out in to other colors next year, by gawd. All the ancestral photos that were black and white had an interesting tendency to want to be tinted a certain color, and it seems like there was an automatic balance of about the same numbers in each of red, amber (hard to do orange on most photos), yellow, gold, green, teal, blue, indigo, purple, fuschia, pink, and maroon. I mean I didn't count how many I did in each color when I scanned them, but there were a bunch in each color, which is good. In fact, it woulda bothered me a lot if any colors had been missing from the colors that the pictures seemed to look best in.
The night gig is still good, in terms of lots of downtime, and getting to have fun with KR a few nights a week. She says the changes I've made in my life this year have made it seem like there's been a weight lifted from my shoulders. She is correct, and it's refreshing to have someone be happy for me and recognize me being happier. My cousin calls it my "quest" although it's more like stepping away from getting badmouthed and yelled at than it is questing towards something.
Soon I must blog about the writing class I took in late winter, taught by The! Great! Lynda! Barry! For now I'll just say you should totally take her class next time she teaches it near you! This is, as Lynda would say NOT JIVE! It will be one of the most fun weekends you've had in a long time, no matter WHO you are! She teaches it all over the country but since she now is based close to our lucky town, I hope she'll do a Madison session again soon!
My first column for the "Betty's Corner" column was a very short review of the Laurie Anderson concert I went to a few weeks ago, and my first visit to the Overture Center(yes it takes me a long time to catch up with new places and events). The entire long-ass version of that article will be here on the LJ soon, where time is more my limitation than space is.
Little Laurie's apartment was broken into last Monday. I'm nervous and upset about it. She is not. Burglary is so commonplace in my hometown that people don't freak that much about it. She was not home and nothing important was taken. Even in our dad's neighborhood, which seems safer and quieter, they have had break-ins, and Laurie says ya don't move or not-stay somewhere just because of that. I don't know what I would do. I'd be freaked, that's for sure. Anyway her neighbor scared them off and called the cops and the landlords had fixed her door by the time she got home. Now who is going to fix my nerves? Can they send over a nerve-repair technician right away. Oh well, she's okay and I'm feeling good this weekend. Sundays are not usually this great for me, but it's a beautiful day, I don't got to do nothing but relax (which means, for virgos, clean the house and organize things for a real long time). Can't spend it all on the internest...
Even though I've been neglecting to post here, I've been finding springtime-relevant clips to share! In today's clip the Jolly Green Giant wasn't really a tv icon yet, and he was SCARY. You have to imagine the green. Imagine the greeeeennnn...
Click to viewThe youtube uploader claims it's from the year that Laurie and I hatched, which means lotsa shows were in black 'n' white and the ones that weren't still proudly advertised "In Living Color" or had "technicolor" as a subtitle or in the credits. Now, who all of my readers is also a synaesthete and can imagine gray images as green? Please indicate by a show of hams.
Anyone, Anyone?
Time travel movies from the Netflix queue are finally here. Yes, they will be disappointing mostly, but that's okay because there's always that first few minutes where it seems like they're gonna do something interesting with the premise. More on that (and everything else) later, taters.