stuff! things! books!
happy (late >.< ) birthday to alethialia! one of my favoritest tv recappers and fellow haven fan. :D this calls for cake and shirtless duke.
dancing boys: *party down*
(granted, every happy occasion should have cake and shirtless duke.)
good news: they hired a receptionist at work! i can go back to my desk!
not-so-good news: she's not starting until the beginning of march. sigh.
i met gnomi for lunch today and after she finished telling me about the thing she's writing, i bent her ear about oskar and conrad. >.< and then went back to work and googled the shoah foundation because i think at some point someone contacts oskar to be interviewed for it. he'd be in his 70s and conrad kind of makes him do it.
wednesday reading meme!
What I just finished reading:
the last apocalypse: europe at the year 1000 ad, which i enjoyed mostly because i learned stuff. it's basically a series of mini biographies of rulers and assorted others who were important or influential (or particularly bloody-minded) around the year 1000, and because some of them show up in more than one chapter for more than one reason, there's some chronological backtracking that kind of confused me. but it was certainly interesting and engagingly written.
What I am reading now:
mastering the art of soviet cooking: a memoir of food and longing, by anya von bremzen, which is so far a combination of food history, personal history, soviet/russian history, and sort-of cookbook. anya von bremzen was born in soviet moscow and emigrated to pennsylvania with her mom when she was ten, and for whatever reason she decided to cook a meal for each decade, from the nineteen-teens until now. i'm only on the first chapter but i'm glad i read it while my lunch is close at hand, otherwise all the descriptions of food would make me hungry.
What I'm going to read next:
fiction! i don't feel overloaded on non-fiction yet but i kind of want to read something that's totally made up.
this is a really interesting article about agent carter, positing not only that the show is setting peggy up as a superhero, but that she's possibly the first (chronological) superhero in the mcu. i might argue that point - i mean, steve was pretty superhero-y by the time he crash-landed in the arctic - but the article still has some good commentary.
venn diagram cake - heaven, hell, and purgatory. tasty and nerdy!
space suite - short video created with nasa images and 3d computer effects. the flyover of one of the mountains on earth's moon makes it look like a model, like it's made out of painted plaster or something.
funny things tube drivers say - t drivers in greater boston aren't this entertaining, and if they are i'm clearly riding the wrong trains.
dancing boys: *party down*
(granted, every happy occasion should have cake and shirtless duke.)
good news: they hired a receptionist at work! i can go back to my desk!
not-so-good news: she's not starting until the beginning of march. sigh.
i met gnomi for lunch today and after she finished telling me about the thing she's writing, i bent her ear about oskar and conrad. >.< and then went back to work and googled the shoah foundation because i think at some point someone contacts oskar to be interviewed for it. he'd be in his 70s and conrad kind of makes him do it.
wednesday reading meme!
What I just finished reading:
the last apocalypse: europe at the year 1000 ad, which i enjoyed mostly because i learned stuff. it's basically a series of mini biographies of rulers and assorted others who were important or influential (or particularly bloody-minded) around the year 1000, and because some of them show up in more than one chapter for more than one reason, there's some chronological backtracking that kind of confused me. but it was certainly interesting and engagingly written.
What I am reading now:
mastering the art of soviet cooking: a memoir of food and longing, by anya von bremzen, which is so far a combination of food history, personal history, soviet/russian history, and sort-of cookbook. anya von bremzen was born in soviet moscow and emigrated to pennsylvania with her mom when she was ten, and for whatever reason she decided to cook a meal for each decade, from the nineteen-teens until now. i'm only on the first chapter but i'm glad i read it while my lunch is close at hand, otherwise all the descriptions of food would make me hungry.
What I'm going to read next:
fiction! i don't feel overloaded on non-fiction yet but i kind of want to read something that's totally made up.
this is a really interesting article about agent carter, positing not only that the show is setting peggy up as a superhero, but that she's possibly the first (chronological) superhero in the mcu. i might argue that point - i mean, steve was pretty superhero-y by the time he crash-landed in the arctic - but the article still has some good commentary.
venn diagram cake - heaven, hell, and purgatory. tasty and nerdy!
space suite - short video created with nasa images and 3d computer effects. the flyover of one of the mountains on earth's moon makes it look like a model, like it's made out of painted plaster or something.
funny things tube drivers say - t drivers in greater boston aren't this entertaining, and if they are i'm clearly riding the wrong trains.