A Short Kind of Long List, Specific to Tonight:
Not being able to breathe
Sinus headache / fuzziness
Unfinished conference presentation (getting there, though!)
Nearly complete ignorance of a few things for the last week. Longer for some. In every realm of my life (personal, academic, professional) (to quote a colleague, “It’s okay! No one’s dying!”).
Georgia State’s e-reserves and [...]
Real cooks probably don’t take cues from comics. What does it mean to “dot each layer with butter” anyway? My interpretation involved pouring a little melted butter over each layer, which in turn involved using an entire stick of butter, and resulted in a dish tasting mostly of butter and pepper, with a slight turnip [...]
I am so, so sick. Not that sick, I guess. Just a cold. Feeling a little miserable, though, pining over my lost ability to breathe and swallow comfortably. And there’s lots to do… It’s going to be mostly over in a week, though!
I’m glad, in spite of sickness and stress, [...]
What a perfect day for The Thing, (surprise) issue 3 1/2 to come!! It is from Tucker Nichols, and it is actually four small useful “things” (which in this context are household objects that incorporate text). Pictures soon.
Other Things: Issue 3 arrived a while back, but I wasn’t that excited about it. Issue 2 is [...]
I’m going to say something controversial, and I know you’re not going to like it: I don’t like Lucile’s. I mean, the food is fine, a little heavy and mostly glutenous/cheesy, but they do have a good eggplant dish on the menu. It’s not really the food. It’s mostly the crowd.
I can’t stand those people [...]
They’ve ranked Crown Royal with Deal or No Deal, bowling, and Rachael Ray. This changes my whole world-view. I don’t drink Crown Royal (more about my whiskey aversion some other time, maybe), but I always thought Crown wasn’t that low-class, ranking with Deal or No Deal, Rachael Ray, and bowling. I should note that I [...]
I’m in stressed-out, list-making mode. I’m sparing you the lists… I am ready for June, though. For some reason I think June will be better. Actually, I think there are many reasons why it just will. The conference will be a load off my shoulders, and things will start looking up. Not that they’re looking [...]
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Shadows cast by airplanes flying miles above the ground. Also, shiny reflections cast by the same. From the ground, these are like tiny, stealth clouds flying overhead, or like little sunspots that change the shadows of your living room as though the whole afternoon is caught in a time-lapsed film. [...]
Last week I was waiting for The Merry Wives of Windsor to start, talking to my friend (date!) about a group (posse!) of adolescents who were also waiting to see the play. Adolescence is such a weird thing — they’re like semi-adult, on the verge of assuming normal shapes and behaviors and lives (so [...]
Last night Barrett had me over for dinner, and let me tell you — the girl can cook! We had tuna steaks and soup with a special name I can’t remember and baked grapefruit (who knew you could bake it?!?) and (the clencher) flourless peanut butter cookies. These were made of no more than: peanut [...]
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