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The Great Nor'easter Wintry Crud of the Ides of April scooched along a diagonal across the southern edge of Michigan, but avoided us in West Michigan. That's a surprise. My sympathies to Philadelphia, New York and environs north and south of those fine states. Boston Marathon anyone?
I'm An Idiot
... for uttering the immortal words this weekend "at least I didn't get your cold" to Mrs. Dr. Phil. Last night I didn't sleep well as my sinuses blurped around -- finally got out of bed at 3:30am and spent the last 90 minutes of my bedtime bundled up in an upright recliner chair. Where I managed to doze, but I gotta get out of here and take a nap at home. Running slow all day, dang it. Actually had the computer shutdown before I realized I had to update my classes webpages. Sigh. And then I had to check some stuff here, so I might as well post here.
The Perfect Shoot
Switched to a different LJ icon today because I tried posting the pic to a comment on Scalzi's blog, the Whatever, but the pic didn't come up. So if Visitor Jim should come back here, this is my favorite Kate Winslet picture, from a photo shoot I refer to as The Perfect Shoot. (sigh)
I Won?
Not only cannot I root for teams, I never (very very rarely) win anything. So imagine my surprise earlier this afternoon to get an e-mail from my graduate school, Michigan Technological University. Seems that having attended some West Michigan MTU Alumni events in the past year, I've won a half-dozen pasties from Pasty Central in Calumet MI. Woo-hoo! And before the snide remarks start, click on the link above to find out that a pasty is a Cornish meat pastry and a staple of the miners' diet in the U.P. and has NOTHING to do with the other kind of pasties.
Okay, so something good happened today. Can I go home now? Wait, I'm a part-timer and I've been here all day and my office hours ended two hours ago. Yes, I can go home. After I make some copies.
Sigh. Just this week left to the bloody 8 o'clock class and the 5am wakeup...
Dr. Phil
The Great Nor'easter Wintry Crud of the Ides of April scooched along a diagonal across the southern edge of Michigan, but avoided us in West Michigan. That's a surprise. My sympathies to Philadelphia, New York and environs north and south of those fine states. Boston Marathon anyone?
I'm An Idiot
... for uttering the immortal words this weekend "at least I didn't get your cold" to Mrs. Dr. Phil. Last night I didn't sleep well as my sinuses blurped around -- finally got out of bed at 3:30am and spent the last 90 minutes of my bedtime bundled up in an upright recliner chair. Where I managed to doze, but I gotta get out of here and take a nap at home. Running slow all day, dang it. Actually had the computer shutdown before I realized I had to update my classes webpages. Sigh. And then I had to check some stuff here, so I might as well post here.
The Perfect Shoot
Switched to a different LJ icon today because I tried posting the pic to a comment on Scalzi's blog, the Whatever, but the pic didn't come up. So if Visitor Jim should come back here, this is my favorite Kate Winslet picture, from a photo shoot I refer to as The Perfect Shoot. (sigh)
I Won?
Not only cannot I root for teams, I never (very very rarely) win anything. So imagine my surprise earlier this afternoon to get an e-mail from my graduate school, Michigan Technological University. Seems that having attended some West Michigan MTU Alumni events in the past year, I've won a half-dozen pasties from Pasty Central in Calumet MI. Woo-hoo! And before the snide remarks start, click on the link above to find out that a pasty is a Cornish meat pastry and a staple of the miners' diet in the U.P. and has NOTHING to do with the other kind of pasties.
Okay, so something good happened today. Can I go home now? Wait, I'm a part-timer and I've been here all day and my office hours ended two hours ago. Yes, I can go home. After I make some copies.
Sigh. Just this week left to the bloody 8 o'clock class and the 5am wakeup...
Dr. Phil
The Winslet Picture
Date: Tuesday, 17 April 2007 06:27 (UTC)I moved away from Michigan twenty something years ago and missed pasties ever since. Try to imagine my surprise when somebody opened a pastie shop in Wasilla, ten miles from my home here in Alaska. My wife limits me to two a week.
Hope the cold improves sooner rather than later. I've had to teach with a cold and it's no damn fun at all, sucks all the energy right out of me.
Excellent choice on the Winslet Picture too. //Jim Wright
Re: The Winslet Picture
Date: Thursday, 19 April 2007 18:10 (UTC)Here's a link (http://homepages.wmich.edu/~kaldon/images/The-Perfect-Shoot-Kate-Winslet.jpg) to some wallpaper I cobbled up from various sources with more shots from the photo shoot.
As for the cold/sinus thing. It's no fun when you have to sleep upright in a chair, but then again to make sure one gets a FULL four hours of sleep (grin) before getting up at oh-dark-hundred and hit the road at 0600 to make it to my 8 o'clock class on time, well, it's a good tradeoff. Bet you dollars to donuts that by Sunday, when the temp outside gets to the 70s, my running nose will make me really miserable.
Dr. Phil