Consumatum est: well, the big furniture that required a truck, anyway (we still have lots of boxes, cough cough, hint hint). We decided the sofa did not have a place in our new third floor lifestyle (fortunately, we decided this on the first set of stairs). I wanted to chuck it off the back of…
Category: fatigue
Boxing Day
Just taking a break from the numbing process. Today we need to box up everything that’s sitting on furniture large enough to have to be moved on the truck that we rented for tomorrow. Time to turn off the brain in order to avoid thinking about a) how much stuff we still have, b) how…
What Fresh Hell?
What could make the process of moving less pleasant? 90+ F degree weather (that’s 30+ C) and humidity — what is this, Houston?! Let’s not forget thunderstorms, too. We moved some lighter stuff yesterday: musical instruments and dvds. Our new stove is in, though not the new fridge and our landlord was busy painting some…
Vecchia Zimarra
Off to Connecticut tonight to empty out the storage space. I shall have to sing my goodbyes to the things we throw away (may they be many). But I’ll think about that later — work to do now and anyway, I should be thinking about seeing friends tonight (a much more pleasant thought). I woke…
Algonquin Roundtable
This semester, as many of you know, I have been teaching a class about films that portray the lives of writers. Most recently we watched Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle, which tells in part both Parker’s life and the coterie that was the Algonquin Roundtable (as drawn by the inimitable Hirschfeld here). It’s a…
Cranky
We headed up north again yesterday to meet Crispinus at the Parting Glass before the next Miller event: Panel Discussion – Film & The ImaginationThe panel will feature Jonathan Miller and Faculty members Tom Lewis (English), Marc-Andre Wiesman (Foreign Languages and Literatures), Erica Bastress-Dukehart (History), and Skidmore student Sean Mattison ’08. The pub was a…
That Kind of Day
But there are few moods that cannot be elevated by hearing (and seeing) the Dickies sing the Banana Splits theme.
Out of the Blue
Why do I wake up at four in the morning with barely remembered songs or those not heard in ages running through my head. You’d think I’d have something that I just watched on the brain, like this: …but no (and not “Police and Thieves” either from the Xmas episode of Ideal).
K. A. Laity 