I don’t usually blog about current events or politics. I feel underqualified to make the elegant arguments that I enjoy reading and thinking about. I’m also usually too lazy to bother crafting a considered position on this here blog.
So let me keep this short.
Our “leader’s” fumbling, now infamous statement about artists who attend ‘rich galas’ [...]
Archive for September, 2008
Rich Galas
Posted in Uncategorized on September 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Extremes
Posted in work on September 20, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Wednesday night I had one of my intermittent freak-outs re: my life. These have been recurring since switching jobs, depending on whether or not I feel like I’m being challenged, am using my abilities, etc. And whether or not I’ve gotten out enough after work.
Thursday, however, was shaping up to be good: play in the [...]
Inch by Inch, Row by Row…
Posted in domestic life on September 14, 2008 | 3 Comments »
My garden really failed to grow…
Well, it grew. But then the slugs ate most of it. And the raccoons took care of pretty much everything else. Moral of the story? Next year I will focus on containers (to avoid the slugs) with chicken wire around them (to try to thwart the raccoons). I might plant [...]
On Things I Love
Posted in domestic life, musings on September 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
1) Theatre.
We went to see Cabaret, and wound up also seeing Caeser and Cleopatra the next afternoon. I was in tears through most of the first act of the former, and totally enthralled with the latter. I’m no expert critic, but I know what I like: good shows that are well-performed, that surprise me in [...]
Come hear the music play…
Posted in events on September 2, 2008 | 1 Comment »
My love affair with Cabaret really took off in February of 2003. Having decided that I didn’t have over $700 to go somewhere hot, I took the train to NYC with my great friend Picky. We stayed outside of the city with a friend’s generous parents, and ate a lot of hot nuts and other [...]
Garden Carnage
Posted in domestic life on September 2, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Dear Raccoon(s),
You hateful, rotten, disgusting, greedy, no-good creatures. You just had to wait to destroy my tomato “harvest” until I had been home for 4 days, didn’t you? Rather than let my low expectations for my garden be confirmed upon my arrival back from Home Province, you tantalized me for 4 days with the prospect [...]
