friday-things that amuse me

stephen fry

i finished moab is my washpot, as i mentioned, and am now most of the way through the liar

he's a little bit stoppard and a little bit laurence sterne and highly recommended

thursday-things that make the heart beat faster

swimming

which is why i'm up so bloody early in the morning...

wednesday-things that are orange

(i don't know why that whole picture is so blue but i'm too lazy to retake it)

tuesday-things that displease me

back pain caused insomnia

on the upside, i finished moab is my washpot (highly recommended) and i saw the lunar eclipse.

monday-things that please me

9:49 am addendum:
this

(i take full credit for this as an early birthday present for nix)

friday-things that puzzle me

how nbc seems to be taking an amazing book, the time traveller's wife, and turning it into a really horrible looking tv series--journeyman.

i wonder if audrey niffenegger gets royalties for them taking her idea and turning it into trash...

thursday-things that make the heart beat faster

nix

who has yet to divorce me after 4 years of marriage.

happy anniversary, darling.

wednesday-things that are orange

tuesday-things that displease me

• hurricanes
• media coverage of hurricanes
• global warming

zen explained to me, once upon a time, that global warming will not make the weather warmer, but will make every weather pattern more severe. the blizzards will be snowier and windier; the rain will be more intense causing more flooding;

and the hurricanes, oh the hurricanes...

monday-things that please me

more information here

friday-things that puzzle me

why the clock on this computer keeps loosing an hour.

i don't know if it can't get over the revolving daylight saving time date, if it thinks we should move back to indiana, or if nix is gaslighting me.

in any case, it's a nuisance.

thursday-something a little different

another random rules thingie today because i'm lazy

the first five songs on my iPod this morning:

Comes A Train Of Little Ladies from The Mikado

Riffs and Variations On a Single Note for Jelly Roll, Earl Hines, Louis Armstrong, Baby Dodds, and the King of Swing, to Name a Few by Sufjan Stevens

Troubled Times by Fountains of Wayne

Alison Krauss' Down to the River to Pray

and

You've Really Got a Hold on Me by The Miracles

(i skipped the luckiest by ben folds because it is apparently not available in the itunes store and i'm too lazy to get you a link this morning)

wednesday-things that are orange

because i continue to live in a construction zone . . .

tuesday-things that displease me

last night i attended a concert by the lovely loon (this was very pleasing)--a wonderful program of flute and piano.

half way through the second movement of the first piece, a horrible woman came in with her two children. now let me be clear, the children were only being children. i do not hold them at fault for being 3 and 6 and unable to sit through a classical program without talking/fussing/keeping still. i blame this woman--who interrupted the program by coming in late--for giving them noisy things to do to occupy their time, for talking incessantly with them, for letting one of them run around unsupervised, for not leaving at the end of the piece when it was clear that her party was ruining the experience for everyone around them, for not leaving at intermission, for teaching her children this level of disrespect for performers is acceptable, and for leaving in the middle of the second to last movement of the evening with so much noise that the whole thing probably should have stopped so that everyone could applaud her leaving.

i understand that children have short attention spans, but if your child cannot sit still for 3 minutes, why bring him to hear an hour of classical music?

monday-things that please me

that someone is going to be spending time with his family

friday-things that DO NOT amuse me

my tailbone

i do not know what the hell i did, because the choice provided on the internet for the causes of acute sacrum pain are falling or that giving birth. i think i would have remembered either of these things.

i gone so far as to purchase flat shoes! that is how seriously i am taking this.

of course the flat shoes gave me blisters, so i am sort of back to square one on the shoe front.

perhaps today i'll try to consult a physician...

thursday-something a little different

the loon and i were talking about songs that we cannot hear without thinking of someone very specific (it started out with songs we cannot hear at all because they remind us of someone very specific, but most of the following make me smile)

so i present: five songs that i cannot hear without immediately remembering specific people:

• loreena mckennitt's dark night of the soul
• lisa loeb's stay
• the dresden dolls' the jeep song
• can't get enough of your love, by barry white
• on the way up, by peter mulvey

feel free to add your own (oh, and three of these make me think of specific readers of this thing, so hi!)

wednesday-things that are orange

• al roker's heat index map
• female, caucasian celebrities between the ages of 18-28 (come on girls, do not succumb to mystic tan--be pale and proud)
• oranges

tuesday-things that displease me

• having my pupils dilated

(i would have taken a picture, but i spent most of yesterday afternoon unable to focus my eyes.)

optometrist's verdict--yes my eyes have gotten much worse. new contacts are on their way.

monday-things that please me

green things

• guacamole
• pesto
• the wicked witch of the west

friday-things that amuse me

• about half of the simpsons movie (shouldn't that be the simpsons' movie?)
  
• simpsonizeme.com--sure it's a marketing ploy--but it's fun

this is what nix would look like as a simpson. or me. i get us confused sometimes.

thursday-things that break the heart

this.

my heart goes out to all our friends in minnesota.

p.s.--i understand that they made a good call in not cancelling the twins game because a few 100,000 more cars on the road was a bad idea at the moment. however, i do think they could have done without the organ. . .

wednesday-things that are orange

thanks to ms. b who took me on the cruise out to this island last week!