After finishing The Grapes of Wrath a few weeks ago, I made an effort to rent the movie version this week and I watched it last night. You know what’s a good book? The Grapes of Wrath. You know what isn’t a great book-to-movie transition, despite being listed on the AFI Top 100 list? The [...]
Entries from April 29th, 2009
My Cousin Visits; I Sell Some Stuff
April 29th, 2009 · No Comments · Endless Blathering, Mi Familia, Movies, Photography
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Happy Blues!
April 21st, 2009 · 1 Comment · Endless Blathering
I have almost definitely probably decided that I will likely get the bright blue fabric for the couch, for sure, maybe. The couch will look great, and I was testing that blue fabric last night. It’s this spectacular shade that makes everything look good. Colors that don’t really have much life on their own suddenly [...]
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Round is Funny
April 20th, 2009 · No Comments · Endless Blathering, Movies, Television
I started bringing my own bags to the supermarket about a year and a half ago, and in that time it’s become radically more socially acceptable to do so. At least in the eyes of the checkout kids, who used to give me a kind of exasperated attitude whenever I’d bust out my assortment of [...]
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‘Sup
April 17th, 2009 · No Comments · Endless Blathering, Photography
I’m off work this afternoon to go home and wait for several house-related work people to show up and do house-related work (some guy is coming by to check out the broken fence, and some other guy is coming by to measure the couch, and the exterminator is coming because mice keep getting stuck in [...]
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Altamont Pass Wind Farm
April 10th, 2009 · No Comments · From Flickr, Nature & Landscapes
The images below were taken in the Altamont Pass of the Diablo Range in Northern California. It is home to one of the oldest and largest wind farms in world. The countryside is beautiful, and I love the way the turbines look against the soft, rounded hills. On the day I drove through from the [...]
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A New Season
April 10th, 2009 · No Comments · Photography
Tomorrow starts a new season of photography for me, which is good. I have done almost no shooting since the holidays, though I have been processing here and there. The last few weeks I’ve been pretty lazy about working- I was reading and watching AFI movies instead!- but I won’t have any excuses now. I [...]
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The Chez Is Dead, Long Live the Chez
April 8th, 2009 · No Comments · Past Life Experiences
This morning, I got a tour of the remodeled First Presbyterian Church, right up the block from my office. My grandparents are members there, but the church was really home to me in my college years. Quite literally. And not for any real particularly religious reasons. The Chez Coffeehouse was located in one underused wing [...]
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Making It Work
April 7th, 2009 · No Comments · Endless Blathering, Movies, Rants/Raves
This morning- chaos in the closet! None of my black pants fit anymore. I ended up wearing the same pair of dressy trouser jeans as yesterday, which is annoying. Tonight I will take most of my black pants to the tailor and see if I can’t get them to take them in (though the problem [...]
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Stuff I’ve Bought on Etsy
April 3rd, 2009 · No Comments · Rants/Raves
God, I’ve spent a lot of time on Etsy. I only got an account there in October, but I just love browsing and I end up buying more crap than I probably ever need, but there’s so much cute stuff! And inexpensive! Some of this I bought for myself (obviously, the hairpins are all mine) but [...]
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Quarterly Resolutions
April 2nd, 2009 · No Comments · Endless Blathering
Early April 2009. Time for wrapping up last quarter’s resolutions, and to set up the resolutions for this quarter. And maybe a little reminiscing. Just this time last year, I was a few days away from my trip to San Francisco and Northern California, which was so absolutely fabulous. I would repeat it every year [...]
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