Hookay, so having just got back from two weeks down south, I had to get my act together for two weeks in England. In a town noted for having highly variable weather, to put it mildly, and with a variety of events and two shows requiring different modes of dress. So packing was going to …
Escape from Durham
The rest of my trip down south was reasonably pleasant, although it certainly went pear-shaped by the end. Didn't have much on the agenda. I was working from Dad's place, and also working on Zoo and Pinafore stuff. I had a great hour-long zoom meeting with the Zoo director, that was entertaining. (and I really …
Choo Choo Chattanooga
Events are occurring, and I'd better get stuff down while I have a chance. I'm on a two-week trip down south, then a week back home, then off to England for two weeks. That last week before I left was cah-razy. A lot was going on at work, and was very much up in the …
Dorian Boop
Hey hey hey, it's Independence Day! Our country's 249th birthday. The day after our cowardly congress passed an awful law that will devastate the country. So, not much to celebrate, but it's still our country, dammit, and we have to fix it. I started the day with a cemetery visit. As I told himself three …
The Great Escape
Yesterday (Friday) I tested negative for COVID for the first time since Saturday. Oh! OK, what now? I'd come off a four day weekend last week where I got a ton done, and of course I've been mostly cooped up in the apt since then, so was very much caught up on projects and stuff. …
Weirder Weekend
So, yeah, I had Thursday through Sunday off and had a not-unreasonable list of house tasks to work my way through. Thursday, my big thing was some CD reorganization. I'd gotten a new bookcase this spring to dump CDs into, and also acquired a whole bunch more CDs when my friends moved. So I went …
What a weird week
So... sometimes I pull my back. It's always the same muscle, it's on the left. And it makes things ouchy and I can't bend over (shut up) and it takes a few days to recover. Last week, I pulled my back simply by going to work. I sat down on the subway. We pulled into …
Books and books and books
I've been reading a lot this year. This isn't a complete list by any means, just ones I want to share and/or opine upon. Funny Ladies I just finished Leslie Gray Streeter's Family & Other Calamities, which is charming and hilarious (and touching, too). A recently-widowed journalist returns to her hometown (Baltimore) to find that …
Toronto Redux (pt. 3)
So, Monday was the conference. It was two days of symposia and two days of workshops and, like last year, I had no interest in doing group projects with strangers for two days, so was just there through Tuesday. Everything was pretty much the same as last year, in the exact same conference space. From …
Toronto Redux (pt. 2)
So, I wake up on Sunday in my high-above-the-roundhouse hotel room, whipped open those curtains. Lovely day. I had the whole day open, and had done a lot of basic touristing last year, so could be more specific. I thought about doing a hop-on-hop-off bus thing, which had worked so well for Dad and me …
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