Well, my dear fellow lit-netters must excuse my slightly brief abscence of about a week. I have been under the most terrifying conditions (TERRIFYING) as little alien rodents have invaded my throat upon my completion of viewing Sergi Eisenstein's Battleship Potemkin. They say that they're here to stay and do not wish to leave. I can hear them screetch every time I breath in my sleep. They are the ones who have been writing all of the minimalist viginettes appearing on this blog. I told them no, ...
Some of you may know, others may not, that I worked as a hunting guide in South Dakota last winter. I was only there for roughly two months. At the time, it felt like years because it was another one of those times in my life that I slept an hour or two a night, if I slept. It wasn't like Cherokee Park Ranch- we didn't dance till the wee hours of the morning. We sat around and bull****ted (bullshat?) with the hunters all night. Between ten thirty and 11pm we would leave under the pretense that ...
Well, it has been way too long since I posted to my blog. First of all, Happy Gregorian New Year to all. I'm still sticking to the reading of the American novels of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. In 2009, I completed the following: Dos Passos 1919 The Big Money Hemingway The Sun Also Rises Farewell to Arms The Old Man and the Sea Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby Steinbeck East of Eden The Grapes ...
Santa Claus for a Day I got to be Santa Claus at work these two days on returning after a two week vacation. Not literally Santa Claus, but I did give out awards to my team members, a framed certificate and the promise of a small monetary amount in their paycheck. This is the first time I actually gave out awards to people. In research and development, the budgets are usually really tight, and I always felt that it’s a luxury to siphon money away from the program. It was my feeling, ...
me, my son and my dogs went to meet my friend and her 3 dogs today. it was fun the dogs got a lot of exercise and played a lot. after about 30-40 minuets of play we decided to go home it was getting cold and I had been walking in so high snow my toes were freezing. her dogs jump in the car no problem my young one sisco did the same and jumped into my car, but spock on the other hand..... he is 8 years old and he started acting in a way I have never seen before. he didn't want to come didn't want ...