Fascinated, lazy, and lamenting
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I just spent a few minutes catching up with friends' and coworkers' blogs. OK, there's overlap there since all of the co-workers as friends. Everyone seems to have had lovely summers. There was much grilling and knitting and travelling and mysterious finding of hard boiled eggs. I was also pointed toward an unknown blog of a coworker/friend. Thanks blogrollers! So I got to see a little food and flyfishing porn as well. Conclusions? These folks are all cooler than freon.
An earlier fascinating part of this week was learning that the home institution has been bequeathed an estate that includes a blog and a personal computer. Currently there is debate about how, exactly, to archive said blog as well as the email held on the PC. How cool is that? In 2001 I had an extremely prescient conversation with a UW professor on exactly this topic. Was this an iSchool prof? Nope. It was an extremely hip history professor who was speculating what 'going through personal papers' was going to look like in the future. I guess the future is here.
I'm lying on the couch with the laptop. I should be packing for the coast or preparing for the start of school next week. But no, I'm in full avoidance. I'm already intimidated by the road ahead. China is looking very far away. Sanity even further. So I will just lay here and type. I'm reading a popular nonfiction business book as well. I've never read a business book. It's really weird. Each chapter has a 20 word sub-heading, an executive summary, and ends with a bulleted list of take-home points. It's so weird.
The loss of my palm pilot. I walked into a handrail with it in my pocket. The screen is kaput. I'm currently debating the relative merits of ebay vs downgrading.
The end of summer. The summer squash is on its way out (thank god). I don't think the tomatillos will ever ripen. The parkway flower bed is slowly being shorn. One iris bed is completely put to sleep.
The lack of summer. Don't get me wrong: I fished approximately 400% more than last summer, spent time in Chicago and Boston, and had a pretty successful garden. Still, there were a whole bunch of Saturday nights spent in the office and far too few days when I left at 5pm (or came back after dinner). That's not supposed to happen.
OK, enough whining. I have to pack for the coast. Parental weekend.
Fascinated
I just spent a few minutes catching up with friends' and coworkers' blogs. OK, there's overlap there since all of the co-workers as friends. Everyone seems to have had lovely summers. There was much grilling and knitting and travelling and mysterious finding of hard boiled eggs. I was also pointed toward an unknown blog of a coworker/friend. Thanks blogrollers! So I got to see a little food and flyfishing porn as well. Conclusions? These folks are all cooler than freon.
An earlier fascinating part of this week was learning that the home institution has been bequeathed an estate that includes a blog and a personal computer. Currently there is debate about how, exactly, to archive said blog as well as the email held on the PC. How cool is that? In 2001 I had an extremely prescient conversation with a UW professor on exactly this topic. Was this an iSchool prof? Nope. It was an extremely hip history professor who was speculating what 'going through personal papers' was going to look like in the future. I guess the future is here.
Lazy
I'm lying on the couch with the laptop. I should be packing for the coast or preparing for the start of school next week. But no, I'm in full avoidance. I'm already intimidated by the road ahead. China is looking very far away. Sanity even further. So I will just lay here and type. I'm reading a popular nonfiction business book as well. I've never read a business book. It's really weird. Each chapter has a 20 word sub-heading, an executive summary, and ends with a bulleted list of take-home points. It's so weird.
Lamenting
The loss of my palm pilot. I walked into a handrail with it in my pocket. The screen is kaput. I'm currently debating the relative merits of ebay vs downgrading.
The end of summer. The summer squash is on its way out (thank god). I don't think the tomatillos will ever ripen. The parkway flower bed is slowly being shorn. One iris bed is completely put to sleep.
The lack of summer. Don't get me wrong: I fished approximately 400% more than last summer, spent time in Chicago and Boston, and had a pretty successful garden. Still, there were a whole bunch of Saturday nights spent in the office and far too few days when I left at 5pm (or came back after dinner). That's not supposed to happen.
OK, enough whining. I have to pack for the coast. Parental weekend.
