I’m on spring break. For reasons I hope to explain later, I’m not exactly thrilled about that this year. Still, I will make the best of it, and that’s one reason I’m up at 5:00 in the morning scribbling a few thoughts. The other reason is that I got up to use the bathroom and [...]
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Middle of Thanksgiving weekend. I spent Thursday (early) morning at the beach, then the afternoon and evening at the folks’ watching football and eating, which was mostly mellow and relaxing. Friday I was at the beach again, then worked on a few things at the new Starbucks on Nimitz in Kakaako. Came home for a [...]
New TV has been interesting. I’m not much into police procedurals mostly because there are just so many out there; however, the idea of a Sherlock Holmes in the United States with a female Dr. Watson was too much to let pass without taking a look. And Elemenatary‘s pretty good. There was a real bleakness [...]
One of the things I hate about myself is my inability to make myself do regular, everyday household chores on a regular basis. My evening hours are often a weird combination of vegetative decompression, escapist media consumption, and enslavement to the tyranny of the urgent, an urgency created by my not doing things ahead enough [...]
It was much more fun writing these questions than I’m sure it’s going to be answering them. Shall We Dance? Probably we shan’t. I’m really not a dancer. I don’t enjoy it much and it doesn’t come as a natural response to good music. I have noticed to my embarrassment that when I hear certain [...]
Stolen from someone’s Tumblr but I’m not linking. Just because. Are you a good cook? I think I’m better than average; certainly better than most people expect, and better than most of my friends, women included. However, I know some really good cooks, and I can’t put myself in their league. Mochi Girl, especially. And [...]
From here. How many teal-colored items of clothing do you have, and which is your favorite? I have three or four, all tee-shirts. My favorite is probably my class shirt from our junior year. Yes, I still have it. It’s teal with pink lettering that says “Junior Corp.” It was supposed to say “Junior Corps” [...]
From here. What’s something whose disposable version has replaced its non-disposable version in your regular use? I never really used cloth handkerchiefs, so those haven’t been replaced. And while I do use regular chopsticks, the truth is that I added them to my life after I’d been using disposable chopsticks for ages. I guess I’ll [...]
From here: This week’s 5 is a revisit to something we did three years ago, and is inspired by the party game Scattergories, in which players have to think of items, all beginning with the same letter, in several categories. For example, if the die is rolled and shows the letter R, players might have [...]
From here. How easily to do you get lost? Psssh. I don’t get lost. Sometimes I explore the area around my destination before I arrive at it, but that’s just because I’m curious. And I need to know where the nearest cafe is. What subject in school made you feel most lost? I took AP [...]