I went to see The Dark Knight Rises this evening, and was only mildly annoyed with it. That must be some kind of record.
Corn actually tastes pretty good on pizza.
My novel manuscript is 411 pages (double-spaced) and clocks in at 81,476 words.
I went to the bank in my pajamas two days ago.
Somehow I'm in the middle of reading three books: The Chase by Clive Cussler, The Longest Day by Cornelius Ryan, and Cross the Stars by David Drake.
If I take a walk in the afternoons or make a run to Costco in the mornings, I sweat so much that I leave salt deposits on my T-shirts. It's that hot and muggy out there. This is worse than Tennessee.
Terra Nova (a sci-fi TV show, formerly on Fox) has been canceled. It'll be put out on DVD soon and will henceforth be presented as a "motion comic." I suppose I should know what that is, me being an aspiring comic book writer. But I don't.
The weirdest Google search I've ever done was for "alien draft animals"...three days ago.
Intensive courses begin at work on Tuesday. I'll be working from 8:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m., or something. For the next month. Goodbye, sleep schedule.
Sometimes I get the idea that the Koreans' cultural respect of the greater good and their belief in the insignificance of the individual are all a sham. They're all rugged individualists once they climb behind the wheel of a car. Or maybe cars are just Asian Kryptonite.
Listening to Winston Churchill speeches on YouTube gives me goosebumps.
Until tonight I had no idea what the phrase "to wit" meant.
I put one of my felt hats in the laundry last week (it got completely soaked with sweat on my last outing). It came out all limp and misshapen. I still love it.
Getting into the habit of watering houseplants every day has been tricky, but well worth it. We have little red flowers blooming constantly on the plant by the window.
They're not "pushpins," people. They're "thumbtacks." I dare you to tell me there's a difference.
These are just a few of the things occupying my mind at the moment.
2 comments:
I was once researching the etymology of the word c*nt whilst at a coffee shop with a group of youth pastors sitting beside me. That was fun.
Thumb tacks have a round, smooth back. Push pins have an I(ish) shaped plastic backing. I am 70% sure I'm right and will not confirm this on Google before submitting this comment.
It's been crazy muggy here in Inland Empire, So Cal. The smell in the air gives me sensory memories of visiting my grandparent's farm in Illinois.
They have Coscto in S Korea?
Terra Nova, amateurish as it may have been, was cancelled way too soon. I liked Clive Cussler when he wrote his own Dirk Pitt stuff. And I agree with the above commenter on the push pin/thumbtack controversy.
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