it's too early to go to bed but man i just want to lie down
spent some quality time at work doing expenses, because this is apparently my life now, and rolled my eyes at a grad student who didn't bother to tell me he'd booked his own room for a conference until after i'd emailed the group and said "so i booked your hotel rooms for the conference...." and then i told another grad student it would be easier if he booked his own flights. hotel rooms are easy. all you need is the discount code for the conference in question. trying to coordinate flights is a pain in the ass and i don't like doing it for grad students.
and then i took a nap for a half hour. feeling better, except that i guess eight hours of looking at my laptop is exhausting.
also one of my friends called me at nine this morning (and not for an emergency), which, really? either i'm working and you're interrupting my flow, or i'm taking the day off because i feel like shit and you're interrupting my sleep. i did not answer so i don't know what she wanted.
i never read it, but apparently dracula is an epistolary novel? starting on may 3 dracula daily will send you the whole thing date by date. each date something happens in the book, you'll get that installment of story in your inbox. neat!
the first videogame easter eggs were acts of rebellion by game designers at atari who felt they were being stiffed (they kind of were) by corporate. (they hid their names in their games - "created by ___".)
what happens to all those leftover half-used hotel soaps? a lot of them are remade into soap for places around the world with a high incidence of diseases that can be lowered with... hand washing.
for those of you with lots of money and a love of maps, you can buy a bespoke handmade globe customized to your liking. i love that there's still a market for such things. (because the article doesn't actually link to the workshop, it's here.)
All those years - paw of again, paw of let’s go,
of lake-plash, of come throw, perked ear
of what’s that? of yanked back who’s that?
unsettled pacer of storms, investigator of grass,
distinguished scholar of curbside, delighted
roller in the perfume of foul, sleek
fetcher, sock chewer, under table sleeper,
taut leaper into air & pond - then, all at once,
it became her turn & the reliable
body began - the unimaginable undoing;
while we - scratchers of belly & ear, callers of hey,
come back, diligent trainers of down & come,
companions of dawn, partners of rain,
& errand, stick throwers, ball wranglers,
chair readers & nappers,
while at our feet with twitch & yelp,
she rustles through the high grass of dream -
understood it was now our turn,
which meant - as it does with each animal sorrow
- doing the unimaginable.
--"The Pact", Victoria Redel
and then i took a nap for a half hour. feeling better, except that i guess eight hours of looking at my laptop is exhausting.
also one of my friends called me at nine this morning (and not for an emergency), which, really? either i'm working and you're interrupting my flow, or i'm taking the day off because i feel like shit and you're interrupting my sleep. i did not answer so i don't know what she wanted.
i never read it, but apparently dracula is an epistolary novel? starting on may 3 dracula daily will send you the whole thing date by date. each date something happens in the book, you'll get that installment of story in your inbox. neat!
the first videogame easter eggs were acts of rebellion by game designers at atari who felt they were being stiffed (they kind of were) by corporate. (they hid their names in their games - "created by ___".)
what happens to all those leftover half-used hotel soaps? a lot of them are remade into soap for places around the world with a high incidence of diseases that can be lowered with... hand washing.
for those of you with lots of money and a love of maps, you can buy a bespoke handmade globe customized to your liking. i love that there's still a market for such things. (because the article doesn't actually link to the workshop, it's here.)
All those years - paw of again, paw of let’s go,
of lake-plash, of come throw, perked ear
of what’s that? of yanked back who’s that?
unsettled pacer of storms, investigator of grass,
distinguished scholar of curbside, delighted
roller in the perfume of foul, sleek
fetcher, sock chewer, under table sleeper,
taut leaper into air & pond - then, all at once,
it became her turn & the reliable
body began - the unimaginable undoing;
while we - scratchers of belly & ear, callers of hey,
come back, diligent trainers of down & come,
companions of dawn, partners of rain,
& errand, stick throwers, ball wranglers,
chair readers & nappers,
while at our feet with twitch & yelp,
she rustles through the high grass of dream -
understood it was now our turn,
which meant - as it does with each animal sorrow
- doing the unimaginable.
--"The Pact", Victoria Redel