2009-04-18, 9:27 a.m.: Day two or three of the big snow! We are completely snowed in, as is everyone, and it continues to settle. This must be approaching four feet. Lights out all night - I cooked coffee on the Coleman stove. We're online thanks to a backup battery Pedro bought yesterday. Alas, my computer battery is dead. 0 comments
2009-04-17, 4:11 p.m.: A big one to end the winter with: Power keeps winking on and off, so I'm throwing this up here quickly. My hand is more sprained than ever so I look forward to enforced non-computer time. Got the boys to school today at 8:30, right on time; 45 minutes later came the call to pick them back up. Stupid school system. There were only 5 kids total in the kindergarten class. I felt like a rock star mother. Then I did a huge liquor run as celebration dance. We've got at least 2 1/2 feet and more coming, coming, coming. Maybe four or five feet! I had been wanting to be snowed in so bad. Either this, or be on a beach. But there are also beaches in my future ... Reading some Junichiro Tanizaki, of 'The Makioka Sisters' fame. What a great family epic. Next either W&P or Little Dorrit. AND WATCHMEN. Just finishing up 'Black Orchid' right now, Clarissa, 2 books about the Roman Empire, 2 books about the Middle Ages, and a 'teach yourself Latin' book. It's either that or take an intensive class for the month of July. Yay, intensive classes! I love them.
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2009-04-12, 9:36 p.m.: "Poster where feeling of luxury and retro feeling drift." --Item description from an eBay auction (a Hiroshige reproduction) I happened upon 0 comments
2009-04-05, 2:05 p.m.: Atticus asked me: Mom, why is your new teapot red and why is you watch red and why are these spoons red and why is the cheese grater red and why are these bowls red and why is the ice cream scooper red? And I said: Actually, they're carnelian. Haha. No, I didn't. 0 comments
2009-04-03, 1:15 p.m.: Fritz W. has two fantastic poems over at 42 Opus. Go there! 0 comments
2009-04-01, 9:21 a.m.: My reading list is getting longer and longer. Daunting, in fact. What? Is reading going to cut into my 'Amazing Race' viewing time now? ... Half-joking. We know that nothing cuts into my TAR viewing time. Included are books I've read before but forgotten, read parts of but never finished, meant to read since time immemorial but never got around to it, mildly pretended from time to time to actually have read, and been embarassed for far too long that I have not yet read. Here my confession! The Enchantress of Florence The New Book of Forms Brief Interviews with Hideous Men Quicksand The Penelopiad Lavinia The Pickwick Papers The Master of Go Parallel Myths The Beowulf Reader Japanese Gothic Tales The Unconsoled Thomas Cather's Journal of a Voyage to America in 1836 Krypton Nights History The Peloponnesian Wars Charles I (biography) The Court Wits of the Restoration A Brief History of Medieval Times A Brief History of Roman Britain The Annotated H.P. Lovecraft The Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon The Tale of the Heike Infinite Jest Preludes and Nocturnes (Sandman) The Dazzle of Day Beloved A Tale of False Fortunes Quicksilver (whole series) Anathem Recreating Japanese Women The Tin Drum Tom Jones Gulliver's Travels Moby Dick The House of the Seven Gables Diary of a Madman and Other Stories The Golden Notebook Portrait of a Lady The Return of the Native The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy Midnight's Children There are others: in the garage, in the upstairs, by the bathtub, at bedside. I dread reading 'Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften' in German. But I think I must try. I did give up halfway through 'Schlafes Bruder' ... must not let that happen again. Oder? 0 comments
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