I’m a Magpie
10 Zen Monkeys has posted an article entitled 5 Freaky Muppet Videos complete with YouTube links and videos. If you’re anything like me, this’ll send you trolling through YouTube for hours, until you finally dissolve into a puddle of tears watching Deborah Harry sing “The Rainbow Connection” with Kermit the Frog.
Oh, it’s been too long. After last November’s post-every day challenge, I swore I’d never neglect this blog again. So easy, this posting every day! So rewarding! So connected to the outside world I was! But then November was over. And with nothing to say and no reason to say nothing anyway, posting fell by [...]
So I just went on the library’s website to see if they have the book on procrastination that I was looking at in the bookstore today. Turns out, they have five copies. And every single one is overdue.
Still one short. There are a few more good books I read in 2006, but great? The best? I’m not entirely sure.
8. A Loeb Classical Library Reader, by the Loeb Classical Library
V. Detrahere igitur alteri aliquid et hominem hominisincommodo suum commodum augere magis est contra naturamquam mors, quam paupertas, quam dolor, quam cetera,quae possunt aut [...]
I know, I know, the year’s almost over, and I’m only 5 in. And unfortunately, I’ve lent some of the best books I’ve read this year out, and can’t quote directly from them (the hazards of being a best book, I suppose). So I might end up falling a bit short. Regardless: onwards!
6. Number 6 [...]
Welcome to the world, Georgia Maeby Green Rogalski! . You couldn’t have chosen a better set of parents. Way to go, kid!
It’s 3:16 AM here in Boston. That’s just after midnight my time. Brian and I actually went to bed hours ago, but I woke up at 2:30, far too awake to be in bed or even think of sleeping.
So now I’m downstairs with the dog, who thinks all rules must be suspended, if I’m [...]
1. The line at Starbucks2. The infinite variety of green tea (3 different kinds? How do I know what I like?)3. The xerox machine at school4. Keirkegaard5. Sunglasses.
What horrible Edward Gorey Death will you die?
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I know, I know, it’s not official until Sunday. But it’s advent-calendar season, at least, and that’s enough for me. We (finally!) bought our tickets home today, and a good thing, too — we weren’t even able to get seats together on the way out, the flights are so full (and our only options were [...]
I'm a librarian. Special skills include dog charming, brochure writing, slapdash cooking and long-winded nattering. I also enjoy watching the sunset's reflection in the tall buildings downtown.
For a while there, I taught classes on Classical literature, philosophy, and the history of religion at New College of California. I have an MA and an MFA in Writing, and live on a boat in Sausalito, CA.