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Every library children’s room I’ve ever visited has displayed at least one poster asserting that books will help you discover new worlds. With my project I hope to expand upon offering text that describes a different world by allowing readers to experience some aspects of the discovery process beyond our familiar vocabulary.

David Eagleman’s work ( Read more... )

The weather channel website advised that I should watch for occasional rain beginning at 7:15 this morning. I was dragging the trashcan to the curb at 7:03 when I noticed a few rainspots on the asphalt. Twelve minutes early ( Read more... )

The 30-year anniversary of the Challenger disaster has some people remembering the day on you-know-where but I don't feel like whingeing my piece to that bunch. However, I do remember standing in the little store between Taliaferro and Francis Scott Key halls, looking up at the TV in the corner and seeing the big puffy Y in the sky onscreen. I ( Read more... )

I start a new job on Monday. A somewhat new job, since it's the same position title with the same department that I left when I tottered off to try something completely different nine years ago. I'm really happy about it, since I liked it way back then and a lot of the people I liked are still there while the Things To Be Done have only grown more ( Read more... )

A few days ago a lamp appeared on our driveway. It was the multi-armed Doc Ock type of floor lamp with the remains of a busted-off cfl bulb in one socket (?!) and the whole thing was pretty much coated in cat hair. I have a theory as to why it showed up where it did: our trash cans stayed out one Friday because we left town before the trucks came ( Read more... )

J lives in Marina del Rey, which is close to LAX and Venice Beach. She picked us up at the former and then we walked to the latter via the Canal District, which is very fun for gawkers. B strode purposefully through the place without commenting on a single garden or house because he is not a gawker. Nonetheless, the rest of us enjoyed looking at ( Read more... )

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It wasn't awful, it wasn't productive, it wasn't long enough... the usual. The previous week my brother-in-law had removed my kitchen (this was pre-arranged, nothing but the start date was a surprise) and during the break we got a new floor.
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I haven't been very chatty online but I have some time on my hands right now (SPRING BREAK!) so I will try to catch up a little. V, J, and I are signed up for a half-marathon tomorrow so 2/3 of us have been following a rigorously researched (Google I'm-feeling-lucky) training plan for the past few months. Last Saturday was our longest run in ( Read more... )