Entries Tagged as ‘The Library’

July 8, 2010

Thursday, In Which My Fourth of July Holiday Ends Four Days Later

on the road again… Wow. My weekend lasted for 4.5 days. It was glorious while it lasted. I packed a lot into some seemingly relaxing days: -went to the gym -watched two amazing World Cup matches -partied with family on Whiskey Row in Prescott -got a fisheye lens and used it enough already for people [...]

July 1, 2010

Etymology Day, Part Nine

Oh sports. There are so many different slang terms for each sport, I don’t know if I will ever understand them all. But watching the World Cup, I have found a fascinating new phrase that I want to work into my own vernacular: to be at sixes and sevens. Unfortunately the only way I could work it [...]

June 29, 2010

27 Before 27

 My glass is always half full. So, with my love of lists and extreme optimism on my part, I have started thinking about things I have wanted to do. I decided that some of these things would never be done if I didn’t have a deadline, so i decided to make a list of things [...]

June 7, 2010

The Week of Silence

photo by Tommaso I decided to learn a little more about silence this coming week. As I mentioned Friday, I will be taking a break from most music (except for Black Sabbath) and places where I would normally have music (car, gym, work) The seed was planted in my brain by, of all random places, this [...]

May 14, 2010

Take Five Friday: Amoré

I am in Love with Dashiell Hammett even more after reading Red Harvest.  This week’s I will be taking five minutes to list my “Things I am in LOVE with right now.” This is old, but every time I see it, it helps get me back to thinking on the positive. I have been wanting to make my first international trip for [...]

May 7, 2010

Take Five Friday: Link Day

Me and Philip’s best (only) glasses. See explanation below. In the spirit of Gala Darling’s Carousel, CagePotato’s Link Dump, FilmDrunk’s Friday Free for All and Warming Glow’s Weekend Preview, today I will be Taking Five to appreciate the instantaneous joy that is internet linkage. This post is really old (in Internet time), but I love [...]