Odds & Ends
Lots of little things have caught my attention in the last few days. Yesterday, as I walked to my office, I looked up and saw over a dozen big black birds circling my building. Only the building with my office, not any of the others nearby. They looked like vultures, though I suppose that's technically rather unlikely. I wondered, as I hauled my weekend worth of work up to my office early Monday morning, whether this was a sign from above regarding the future of my career. I seem to be oscillating wildly anymore on what I really want to do when I graduate. Presently, "become a hermit on a boat in Maine" is topping my list.
I'm so sad that Peter Jennings died. My parents always watched Peter, every single night when I grew up. World News Tonight was our dinner table entertainment. I attribute my insane adult addition to the news to Peter Jennings alone. What a great journalist he was. I spent my lunch today watching little video clips from the tributes different networks have put together. It's just sad.
During my websurfing recently I found the Starbucks locator page. It turns out that there are 29 Starbuckses within a 10 miles radius of my house. Geez Louise. They really are taking over the world! The Onion even did a little blurb a while back about how Starbucks was opening a new Starbucks in an existing Starbucks's bathroom. (Sorry, I can't find the link to the actual piece.)
I got a TA for my class, thank goodness. It's another graduate student in the department, of course, which is a little bit awkward for me. But he's actually sort of a friend of mine and we get along well, so I am hopeful that the weirdness will go away. At least now I have someone to help me grade.
My friend Pigs, a teacher, has written a lovely Ode to Summer. You should check it out.
I'm so sad that Peter Jennings died. My parents always watched Peter, every single night when I grew up. World News Tonight was our dinner table entertainment. I attribute my insane adult addition to the news to Peter Jennings alone. What a great journalist he was. I spent my lunch today watching little video clips from the tributes different networks have put together. It's just sad.
During my websurfing recently I found the Starbucks locator page. It turns out that there are 29 Starbuckses within a 10 miles radius of my house. Geez Louise. They really are taking over the world! The Onion even did a little blurb a while back about how Starbucks was opening a new Starbucks in an existing Starbucks's bathroom. (Sorry, I can't find the link to the actual piece.)
I got a TA for my class, thank goodness. It's another graduate student in the department, of course, which is a little bit awkward for me. But he's actually sort of a friend of mine and we get along well, so I am hopeful that the weirdness will go away. At least now I have someone to help me grade.
My friend Pigs, a teacher, has written a lovely Ode to Summer. You should check it out.
posted by Meredith | 12:20 PM
4 Comments:
Thanks, man. I'm thinking your birds are just birds, though. Perhaps you'll invite me on your boat in Maine? Maybe tomorrow when I'm supposed to go back to school?
You can't become a hermit in Maine, I live in Massachusetts, I'd so come visit you. :-)
you would so get bored in maine--there is NOWHERE to shop there. and where will you get martinis? hmmm? plus i come to massachusetts often enough that i would visit you, too--probably with the sam.
we have already comiserated on the jennings sadness, so there is no need for me to comment on that.
but god i love me some starbucks. sometimes in my morning trips to the bux, i wish there WAS an extra starbucks in the starbucks bathroom so the line would be shorter!!!
I like the word "oscillating."
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