Company asleep at home in the guest room, me sitting in my new office (I love my job), and I’ve just awakened my husband at 6AM PST because I got distracted and wasn’t paying attention to the fact that I was in “Recent Calls” rather than “Voicemail.” I think that all sends a pretty mixed message about how my Friday will play out.
So do my links:
- Waldenbooks stores in Greensboro, Winston-Salem to close
This is kind of sad, beacuse the Waldenbooks in Four Seasons Mall was my first real bookstore, the place where I bought my first books on many of the topics that still interest me today, where I bashfully purchased my first issue of The Advocate at age 17 (back when it used to not suck) and where I even picked up a boy once. I never walk into one of their tiny little stores today, and I can’t imagine why many people would, but thirty years ag0, they brought a higher quality of literature to places in America that might otherwise not have had it. - Virginia Foxx Tweets Question: “Will govt-run healthcare require monthly abortion premium?”
No mixed message here. She’s the same crass political opportunist and lunatic fringe alarmist she was last week and always has been. - “Rush Radio” coming to Triad FM station
Great. One of the Triad’s only interesting radio stations is now becoming “all loudmouthed angry white guys all the time.” Listen in as cultural diversity gives way to babbling bigots. - Fred Rogers Statue Unveiled On North Shore
I have no snide comments about this one at all, except to say that I wish I’d been there or that I could be there for the tour this weekend.
Can I just say for the record that the very idea of spending my life working as a Grateful Dead archivist in Santa Cruz might just be enough to make me leave the profession forever and go back to work for Kinko’s?
k.d. lang
Constant Craving (1992)
If you’re reading this on your phone, you’re probably having a much easier time of it today. Assuming, that is, that you’re one of those two or three people who still bother at all.
I’m curious about whether most of the “regulars” keep up by RSS feed (using Google Reader, live bookmarks, or whatever) or by just dropping in from time to time. I can’t imagine doing it the old-fashioned way anymore, but I know some people still do. Anyone care to comment?
Thanksgiving dinner at the K&W.
Thanksgiving has never been one of my family’s bigger traditions. When I was young, we usually spent it with assorted aunts and uncles, but we always left the big celebrating to Christmas. In recent years, my mom and dad have taken to having their turkey at the cafeteria (except for 2007, when the hubby and I had them over for a big feeding). The past two years, Mark has been on the west coast for the big day, so I’ve joined them (and hundreds of others) in this charming New South tradition of turkey, two vegetables, bread, dessert, and tea for $6.49.
It’s not such a big deal. Mark and I had our own spread last Sunday before he left, anyway. I’m glad I married a boy who not only cooks, but even makes his own pie crust (sans dodgy Japanese ingredients).
Now I get to spend the rest of the holiday weekend writing my last paper as a graduate student, as well as preparing for my final final.
I’m graduating in a few weeks. I’m working full-time but the university is closed the week between Christmas and New Year’s, and it’s a paid holiday (did I mention that I love my job?). I have Red Roof Inn free nights that are expiring soon. These three facts taken together suggest “winter road trip” to me. But I can’t quite decide where to go.
My inclination is almost always to head north, and the Philadelphia and DC areas are among the most enticing destinations right now. Anything much farther north (or more midwestern) brings a bit of a weather threat. In fact, even DC and Philly might pose threats, which is why I’ve also considered pointing the Buick southward. That would sort of limit me to some combination of Atlanta, Tampa, and maybe Jacksonville or Miami, since I’m not feeling New Orleans and since I’m only interested in urban destinations (which pretty much rules out the rest of the Southeast). Florida is tempting, since I haven’t spent any real time there in almost thirty years, and this is probably the only time of year I could even tolerate being there, weather-wise. It might be a nice change of pace; as I remember Florida’s biggest cities (Orlando doesn’t qualify under my definition of “urban”), they had a rather dense, mildly gritty urban feel that set them apart from the rest of the region–not like the Northeast, really, but more like California, without that unfinished, semi-rural quality so many Southeastern cities have.
That said, part of me still leans to northward because I want to use those freebies in the most expensive areas possible.
Yeah, I know. This is the kind of dilemma lots of people would love to be facing right now. And it’s not really causing me stress. I’m just sort of thinking out loud rather than specifically soliciting suggestions. But if any of you feel strongly about anyplace (and have some specific reasons), I’ll listen.