Sunday miscellany

By on May 21st, 2006

Hello? Anyone out there? It’s been awfully quiet around here of late. Though if my own blogger’s block is any indication, this is the time of year for minimal posting, minimal commenting, and vacations.

In assorted Bullets of Random Crap news:

  • Up next on my reading list: Alison Bechdel‘s new graphic novel Fun Home (which I’m especially looking forward to after Bitch Ph.D.’s review) and Apartment Therapy: The Eight-Step Home Cure, by the author of the addictive Apartment Therapy blog.
  • The Charlottesville farmers’ market has restarted, and there are already tomatoes. And salad greens. And lots of fresh flowers. This is a very good thing.
  • I’ve been on a "must…declutter…apartment" kick lately (and my God, I swear the back issues of the New Yorker are multiplying when I’m not looking). I’m about to test out this cleaning strategy and see if it works.
  • (On second thought, it’s so gorgeous outside that I may just catch the last of the daylight on my balcony…)
  • In popcorn-movie news, I have no great desire to see either MI:3
    (despite the admirable Philip Seymour Hoffman) or that Da Vinci thing
    (despite the admirable Ian McKellen and Audrey Tautou). Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest, though? I’m so there.
  • I want to write more. I’ve been missing my creative-writing side rather a lot. Any suggestions for making time to write in the interstices of the workweek, O blogospheric hivemind?
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4 Responses to “Sunday miscellany”

  1. Peter says:
    May 21, 2006 at 11:07 pm

    Nice to meet you!
    I write Saturday mornings. I blow my diet on Friday nights and the sugar wakes me up around two. I get some writing in before my family wakes up. I try to avoid being cranky the rest of the weekend. Hope this helps.

  2. Peter says:
    May 21, 2006 at 11:12 pm

    (Speaking of bad sleeping habits, I just noticed your heading “In the stacks.” I slept frequently in the Alderman Library stacks in the late 1970s. I’ve often wondered: is “the stacks” a term peculiar to “the University,” like “the Grounds” and “the Corner”?)

  3. Amanda says:
    May 22, 2006 at 7:17 pm

    No, “stacks” is used by librarians all over. (Unlike “Grounds,” which I still trip over all the time.)
    Nice to meet you too! Sadly, my days of being able to function at two a.m. are over. Though early Saturday morning might just work, now that I think about it.

  4. Shelly says:
    May 25, 2006 at 1:55 am

    Pirates — 7/7! On my calendar! Ready to watch the kohl-eyed JD.