Month: March 2013

Easter parade

Happy Easter (or Passover)!

I had a very nice meal out with my parents at the restaurant around the corner. In all my years growing up and living here, I don’t think I’ve ever actually eaten there, but the lamb was quite tasty. We probably would have had something even closer to home — like at home — except my sister and her husband weren’t able to join us. (Their cat recently took sick, and while he’s doing okay, they can’t very well leave him alone for the weekend, or travel with him.)

It’s been cold and rainy here today, but it was a decent day. I finished prepping the latest issue of Kaleidotrope, and I’m quite pleased with it. It’ll go live tomorrow, April 1 tonight, March 30. As always, I hope some of you will check it out.

And that was Sunday.

Random 10 3-30-13

I was having some website issues yesterday, so let’s just pretend it’s still Friday, okay?

Anyway, last week…and this week:

  1. “Deep Red Bells” by Neko Case”
    It looks a lot like engine oil and tastes like being poor and small
  2. “My Eyes” from Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog
    Is the world finally growing wise?
  3. “Breathe” from The Heights
    I think of the days when this city was mine
  4. “Audience” by Cold War Kids
    He will drive all over three lanes
  5. “I Just Want to Love” by Franz Nicolay
    And this song is dumb, I know
  6. “Crosses of San Carlos” by Tom Russell
    They’re headed out in search of strong libation
  7. “The Valleys” by Electrelane
    I heard him singing in the mountains
  8. “Excitable Boy” by Warren Zevon, guessed by Occupant
    And he bit the usherette’s leg in the dark
  9. “Kooks” by David Bowie
    We bought a lot of things to keep you warm and dry
  10. “Our Days in Kansas” by Tullycraft
    I told you I’d stay but it’s just temporary

Good luck!

Back to school

I went campus calling today, visiting Adelphi University and talking to instructors across departments. Well, it was supposed to be across departments, but I just missed the professor in political science I’d hoped to meet with this afternoon — she warned me, she was in advising sessions all day — and couldn’t connect with the few others I thought might be willing to meet. So it was pretty much all psychology, plus the bookstore. I’m still hoping to get a few “meetings” done over the phone, with people who said they’d meet but couldn’t do so today.

I just can’t get those people to respond to my follow-up e-mails is all.

Meanwhile, I was unexpectedly given a new desk chair for my birthday yesterday — along with a number of other very generous gifts and well-wishes — and it’s amazing to discover this odd sensation at my desk which I think might just very well be comfort.