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Jul. 5th, 2016 12:49 pmThis weekend was my favorite kind of weather: between 65 and 85, and sunny and dry, and a nice breeze (which is a bonus). It was perfect embroidery weather if I had stayed indoors, but it's a shame to waste weather like that on staying indoors, so I didn't. Except on Sunday, when I was suffering from the effects of eating entirely too many potato chips on Saturday (I had a craving, and decided to kill it completely. That worked, in that I want nothing to do with any more potato chips until at least Labor Day, but I felt like a slug all day Sunday.) I did my usual "stay home and watch the Pops on TV" thing yesterday, and apparently I agree with the Boston Globe that there was way too much pop (and none of them can sing, damn it) and not enough orchestra. And I didn't particularly like the cinematography for the fireworks; I don't need a new camera every five seconds. Maybe I'm getting old.
On account of yesterday being Monday, today isn't, as hard as it's trying to be. Actually it's not trying all that hard and my boss is in Florida for the week, but I did have to be at work at 7:45 this morning because somebody decided that today was the ideal day for postdoc orientation (really, the day after a holiday weekend?) and they needed some extra bodies. At least I got breakfast out of it, and it was pretty good breakfast besides. And then I spent most of a couple of hours shooing predoc students away from the breakfast food, because half of the postdoc students took a while filling out the six forms they had to fill out before breakfast and then got herded into the auditorium in which food is not allowed. So I had to guard the breakfast until the postdocs got out of the auditorium. Regardless of what generation students belong to, they will ALWAYS fall like starving hyenas on free or leftover food. I've been observing this phenomenon since 1998.
I'm about halfway through the stack of books I bought last weekend. So far: the English translation of HHhH is OK, but not great (I might have been able to do it better; it's a faithful translation but its word choice sort of diluted the original); Georgiana was interesting, but long; I couldn't get into Medical Muses; I can't decide whether I want to keep The Death of Woman Wang or not, because it's short and some but not all of it is worth re-reading; and I think Dad would be interested in When Books Went to War once I'm done with it.
One of these days when I feel like spending money, I'm considering taking one or two of my best or favorite (not necessarily the same thing) photos from each of my major vacation trips, and having them printed on aluminum. The thing is, I don't know where to have that done around here. Anybody got any suggestions?
On account of yesterday being Monday, today isn't, as hard as it's trying to be. Actually it's not trying all that hard and my boss is in Florida for the week, but I did have to be at work at 7:45 this morning because somebody decided that today was the ideal day for postdoc orientation (really, the day after a holiday weekend?) and they needed some extra bodies. At least I got breakfast out of it, and it was pretty good breakfast besides. And then I spent most of a couple of hours shooing predoc students away from the breakfast food, because half of the postdoc students took a while filling out the six forms they had to fill out before breakfast and then got herded into the auditorium in which food is not allowed. So I had to guard the breakfast until the postdocs got out of the auditorium. Regardless of what generation students belong to, they will ALWAYS fall like starving hyenas on free or leftover food. I've been observing this phenomenon since 1998.
I'm about halfway through the stack of books I bought last weekend. So far: the English translation of HHhH is OK, but not great (I might have been able to do it better; it's a faithful translation but its word choice sort of diluted the original); Georgiana was interesting, but long; I couldn't get into Medical Muses; I can't decide whether I want to keep The Death of Woman Wang or not, because it's short and some but not all of it is worth re-reading; and I think Dad would be interested in When Books Went to War once I'm done with it.
One of these days when I feel like spending money, I'm considering taking one or two of my best or favorite (not necessarily the same thing) photos from each of my major vacation trips, and having them printed on aluminum. The thing is, I don't know where to have that done around here. Anybody got any suggestions?
