Yes, it’s yet another post about packing. Sorry, but that’s pretty much all I can think of right now. Those of you looking for hardhitting critiques of academia, random poetry, or amateur music-criticism, try back in a week or so once the dust has settled. And I mean that literally: I just vacuumed under my […]
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A week from today and I’ll be in Charlottesville. Lots of packing still to do. Expect light blogging for the next couple of weeks. In other news, I saw Chicago the other night as part of the outdoor film series, and it’s just as enjoyable on repeat viewings (I’d seen it twice or three times […]
(That’s my attempt at a Nancy Drew-ish title, by the way.) Via Bookslut and LISNews: an article about the enigmatic and fascinating objects found in secondhand books. I once had an idea for a short story about a character who likes browsing for used books, and starts to find a lot of books that have […]
1. You drop off a few pieces of clothing at the dry cleaners’ and then forget to pick them up until the beginning of the following week, at which point you discover that the cleaners have closed for the summer and won’t re-open until September, by which time you will be long gone. And your […]
Given all the books I’m moving? I seriously need some of these. And while I’m fantasizing, maybe this lamp for overhead reading light. (Via Apartment Therapy, which is just waaaay too addictive for one who’s already obsessing over potential living spaces and how to furnish them.)
In the Food Blogs to Watch category: NiceCupOfTeaAndASitDown. Because on days like this one where I’ve gotten into a severe fret over the sheer amount of packing/jettisoning/selling-off that has to happen within the next two (gulp) weeks, I could really use a nice cup of tea and a sit-down. Actually, even more than that, I […]
Happy centenary Bloomsday to one and all! Reading one page per day sounds rather enjoyable. Especially via RSS. (I just wish there were annotations a la Pepys’ Diary.) Perhaps you’d like a postcard for the occasion? Or some music? And, of course, no Bloomsday is complete without a visit to Ulysses for Dummies. Oh, and […]
So the free outdoor screening of Pirates of the Caribbean was last night, and I braved dodgy weather (off-and-on rain earlier in the evening) and a hay fever attack to go see it. Much fun. I would just like to report the following bits of overheard dialogue from my fellow audience members: *** MAN SITTING […]
Yesterday — one of the few hot days we’ve had so far this year — I was walking across campus when I noticed that it was getting darker, rather rapidly. I looked up and saw a bank of dark slate-blue clouds moving in. At the same time, the wind suddenly picked up, almost buffeting me […]
Summer is here in spades: it’s supposed to get up to 90 this week. Which means that it’s officially summer movie season chez Household Opera. While I’m no great fan of the kind of summer movies that feature car crashes, meteorites, and/or giant tidal waves swamping New York, I nonetheless find my cinematic tastes changing […]