i didn't mean to be gone that long...
hi lj. i aten't dead. it's just been a while (the reason for that is a whole other post) and the longer you don't post, the harder it is to post. i mean, shit piles up and then you have, like, a month's worth of stuff to share.
well, not quite a month, but you know. high holy days! i went back to work! i saw a movie and ate chinese food as is the tradition of my people! (shang chi and the legend of the ten rings which i thoroughly enjoyed and highly recommend, and not just because michelle yeoh's in it and she's a badass.) (we only saw two previews for movies i even kind of want to see - the next james bond, because rami malek and lashana lynch, and dune, because oscar isaac.)
(when i was in high school and the first dune came out, the one with kyle mclachlan, and i wanted to see it because it had sting in a rubber bikini, my friend amy told me if i hadn't read the book i wouldn't understand the movie, and if i had read the book i wouldn't like the movie. i had not yet read the book. i have still not seen the entire movie, including sting in the rubber bikini.)
anyway. the high holy days were marked with food and cousins and sitting outside for the morning services. there's a day camp next door to the temple that let them use the field for rosh hashanah, but it rained right before yom kippur and the field was too muddy, so we set up in the temple parking lot. it was actually kind of nice, altho mosquitos bit me all over my ankles. mostly it wasn't zoom services, which were fine last year but not how i really want to do it forever. my sister and i got to go to our cousins' to break the fast, which - like services - really is better in person. also there was egg salad.
this past saturday was museum day (free entry to a bunch of museums, courtesy of smithsonian magazine) so my sister and i went to the museum of printing which was really interesting and fun. they had, in addition to a lot of neat-looking printing presses, a wall of typewriters and a wall of old computers, including powerbooks from 1991 and little toaster macs from the 80s. remember toaster macs? you could find plans online to convert them into fishtanks. the museum also had a xerox machine from like 1962. i had no idea they were that old. (we saw shang chi afterwards and went out for chinese food.) and yesterday i met one of my former fellow libraries admins for brunch, which mostly involved sitting in her side yard eating and shooting the shit.
and last sunday i saw some open houses with tamalinn and friend a, by which i mean i passed judgement on other people's kitchens. ahem. and that saturday my sister and i went to rockport, which is a very cute town along the water about an hour away. it was a great day to be out and about. i had a fried shrimp sandwich for lunch and it was delicious.
and i went back to work, like on campus, like in an office, three days a week there and two days a week home. it's very quiet in the building because even tho admins have to be there three days a week the faculty and other staff only have to be there two. oh well. it gives me an excuse to dress like an adult and leave the house. i left my water bottle on the t tho and that still annoys me. it was a good water bottle.
you can get d&d dice from arby's. yes, really.
this house has a hidden pantry that you access by walking the plank. how cool is that? i want one.
the arc de triomphe wrapped in (recyclable!) polypropylene as a tribute to the artist christo - you know, the guy who wrapped a bunch of islands in pink fabric - and his partner jeanne-claude. reminds me a bit of the arch in washington square park, which was wrapped in polyester in 1980. not by christo, tho.
elise wortley follows in the footsteps of forgotten female explorers - literally following in their footsteps, by walking the same paths they did. she even tries to wear the kinds of clothes they did and carries the kind of equipment they did. i do not think i'd trust my body heat to a yak wool coat up near tibet, not when i could sleep in a sleeping bag rated for, like, mount everest. but i gotta give this woman props for trying to bring these forgotten wanderers back into memory.
look at mars! lookit that panorama! the fact that we can gaze upon other planets like we're standing on them will never get old. also apparently on a clear day you can literally see for miles. like, twenty.
also perseverance finally collected the first ever rock sample FROM MARS. never getting old.
how shipwrecked yeast could change the taste of your beer - just what it says on the tin. :D brewers and the occasional scientist are looking at yeast extracted from bottles of beer retrieved from shipwrecks to use in making new and interesting kinds of beer.
i know this is over a week late, but did you know about the great boatlift of 9/11? because i did not. on 9/11, shortly after the first plane flew into the first tower, ferries and harbor-cruise party boats and fishing boats and tugboats all started carrying people away from the bottom of manhattan and to safety in new jersey or queens or staten island. they rescued 400k people in nine hours, and once they'd gotten regular people off the island, they started bringing emergency crews and supplies to the island.
well, not quite a month, but you know. high holy days! i went back to work! i saw a movie and ate chinese food as is the tradition of my people! (shang chi and the legend of the ten rings which i thoroughly enjoyed and highly recommend, and not just because michelle yeoh's in it and she's a badass.) (we only saw two previews for movies i even kind of want to see - the next james bond, because rami malek and lashana lynch, and dune, because oscar isaac.)
(when i was in high school and the first dune came out, the one with kyle mclachlan, and i wanted to see it because it had sting in a rubber bikini, my friend amy told me if i hadn't read the book i wouldn't understand the movie, and if i had read the book i wouldn't like the movie. i had not yet read the book. i have still not seen the entire movie, including sting in the rubber bikini.)
anyway. the high holy days were marked with food and cousins and sitting outside for the morning services. there's a day camp next door to the temple that let them use the field for rosh hashanah, but it rained right before yom kippur and the field was too muddy, so we set up in the temple parking lot. it was actually kind of nice, altho mosquitos bit me all over my ankles. mostly it wasn't zoom services, which were fine last year but not how i really want to do it forever. my sister and i got to go to our cousins' to break the fast, which - like services - really is better in person. also there was egg salad.
this past saturday was museum day (free entry to a bunch of museums, courtesy of smithsonian magazine) so my sister and i went to the museum of printing which was really interesting and fun. they had, in addition to a lot of neat-looking printing presses, a wall of typewriters and a wall of old computers, including powerbooks from 1991 and little toaster macs from the 80s. remember toaster macs? you could find plans online to convert them into fishtanks. the museum also had a xerox machine from like 1962. i had no idea they were that old. (we saw shang chi afterwards and went out for chinese food.) and yesterday i met one of my former fellow libraries admins for brunch, which mostly involved sitting in her side yard eating and shooting the shit.
and last sunday i saw some open houses with tamalinn and friend a, by which i mean i passed judgement on other people's kitchens. ahem. and that saturday my sister and i went to rockport, which is a very cute town along the water about an hour away. it was a great day to be out and about. i had a fried shrimp sandwich for lunch and it was delicious.
and i went back to work, like on campus, like in an office, three days a week there and two days a week home. it's very quiet in the building because even tho admins have to be there three days a week the faculty and other staff only have to be there two. oh well. it gives me an excuse to dress like an adult and leave the house. i left my water bottle on the t tho and that still annoys me. it was a good water bottle.
you can get d&d dice from arby's. yes, really.
this house has a hidden pantry that you access by walking the plank. how cool is that? i want one.
the arc de triomphe wrapped in (recyclable!) polypropylene as a tribute to the artist christo - you know, the guy who wrapped a bunch of islands in pink fabric - and his partner jeanne-claude. reminds me a bit of the arch in washington square park, which was wrapped in polyester in 1980. not by christo, tho.
elise wortley follows in the footsteps of forgotten female explorers - literally following in their footsteps, by walking the same paths they did. she even tries to wear the kinds of clothes they did and carries the kind of equipment they did. i do not think i'd trust my body heat to a yak wool coat up near tibet, not when i could sleep in a sleeping bag rated for, like, mount everest. but i gotta give this woman props for trying to bring these forgotten wanderers back into memory.
look at mars! lookit that panorama! the fact that we can gaze upon other planets like we're standing on them will never get old. also apparently on a clear day you can literally see for miles. like, twenty.
also perseverance finally collected the first ever rock sample FROM MARS. never getting old.
how shipwrecked yeast could change the taste of your beer - just what it says on the tin. :D brewers and the occasional scientist are looking at yeast extracted from bottles of beer retrieved from shipwrecks to use in making new and interesting kinds of beer.
i know this is over a week late, but did you know about the great boatlift of 9/11? because i did not. on 9/11, shortly after the first plane flew into the first tower, ferries and harbor-cruise party boats and fishing boats and tugboats all started carrying people away from the bottom of manhattan and to safety in new jersey or queens or staten island. they rescued 400k people in nine hours, and once they'd gotten regular people off the island, they started bringing emergency crews and supplies to the island.