Just wanted to drop a quick note here to say that I am still here. A combination of a busier-than-usual schedule (even by post-Dad’s death standards) and depression has left me not only with no time to blog, but barely any time to sleep, either. I’ve been operating under a serious sleep deficit for four straight days now, and I still have a lot of work to do here at the house tonight and tomorrow before I can finally get some rest. Normal blogging activities…
… or, as it’s known around here, my sister’s birthday. No Friday Five this week because it’s about dreams and I don’t remember too many of mine. (The ones I do remember are mostly unfit for public consumption, anyway.)
This past weekend I picked up a CD/DVD rack from Best Buy. Mind you, I haven’t exactly been buying that many CDs or DVDs (or even video games) lately, but I have bought so many books that I needed to repurpose one of my DVD towers for books. I put the storage rack together over the weekend, and it was a huge hassle because the directions weren’t all that clear; I had to put several of the supports on three different times before I got…
Two of Dad’s loves were architecture and cars. One of the ways he put himself through college was to buy old cars that were being sold for a pittance, then fix them up and sell them for a big profit. You don’t want to know how many times I had to hear his speech about how the car companies are evil for making their cars impossible to fix on your own. (It’s not that I don’t agree with him, but after hearing the same speech…
I joke, here and with my students and elsewhere, that I’m not the kind of person who gets invited to parties. Some days it’s a joke, and some days it hurts. Tonight is one of those nights when it hurts, and hurts bad. I actually got invited to a party tonight. Without going into too many details, it would have been a good place to meet some new friends who shared a common interest. Unfortunately, my efforts to find someone to go with were met…