because I have at least twenty too many from a bit ago...

Denis Dutton on Beauty.  I periodically get sucked into Arts and Letters Daily and he was the editor, and I was sad to hear of his passing, though until he died, I had no idea about the person/history of the site.  The dry-erase board illustration reminds me of my cousins in Taiwan and the ( Read more... )

I do NOT want to support the GOP. Fix your ad feeder.

Could the magical happy new year baby make my family stop coming down with the sniffles?

I hope 2011 is kind to all of you.

I had a bit of a doozy of a week-- and I didn't really miss the internet (not that I was ever truly isolated from it).

I'm at the age, and have been a stranger in a different land long enough that when reuniting with people and places, there's sort of a reappraisal-- a "you look...!" I think it's mostly me that probably does that, mostly because I ( Read more... )

So, I ended up on a not-so-subtle set-up dinner that had me fishing for a missing slipper under the table a la Roman Holiday, listening to a detailed discussion on football's significance to American culture/college athletics, and getting awfully sick from food-poisoning the day afterwards... I had car sickness getting there, and the night didn't ( Read more... )

The narcissus are early. They are sending up their shoots and I just replanted them in September or October after fishing them out and dividing the bulbs. There are some that are sending up shoots that I don't think I disturbed or bugged at all either ( Read more... )

to the antibiotic pushers...  And I must admit that having sinus-y annoyances for a month, possibly more, is probably sufficient indication ( Read more... )

that the week after we changed all the clocks, I visited the NAWC-- which had lots of ticking and tocking, and beautiful clocks.

Still thrashing about trying to figure out my life, and not sure whether the more I know, the more I don't know.

Deciding between careers that match my interests is difficult.  (Also, it's not like there's much of a ( Read more... )

is all over the living room.  My fault.  Stubbornness about going and putting it through more dryer rotations (and hauling it down the stairs to do it), and a bent from living in Asia where everything hung to dry even when it was cold and rainyish and would at best be stiff, cold, and slightly damp when it came in.  So, semi-damp dryer-ed clothes ( Read more... )

According to the media, there seem to be only two races in my state-- governor, and senator.  Am not too thrilled that I'll be walking into the voting booth and facing a slew of names I don't know.  The state election website only gives info on the mechanics of getting to vote and polling places, not the actual ballot of candidates.  Grr ( Read more... )