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Week 1 of Sluggitude
OK, so this was the first week of 'the holidays are over and I don't have a job and I can't go get one right now because of Mom and UGH". And I spent a not unreasonable part of the week being mopey. But I also got a fair amount done. I have a number of tasks in Outlook that I rotate through - some of which are job-hunt-related, some of which are ( Read more... ) -
More Christmas Movies
As predicted, C has insisted on watching Christmas movies as long as possible (well, at least through the 12 days). So we've seen some more new ones.
The Dead. Not as dreary as the title suggests, but very very quiet. There's no plot to speak of, it's just a house party in Dublin in 1904. C was not enthusiastic - turns out he'd seen it in the ( Read more... ) -
2010s wrapup
Ok, I may have to add to this later, because I'm just kind of winging it ( Read more... ) -
2019 Wrapup
I’m sitting by a very overactive radiator, so I opened the window that's right by the radiator. The coffee cup is sitting on the radiator. Will it end up cold or hot? I could just move it to the little table on the other side of the chair, I guess.
2019 was a Year of Derailing. A lot of good work I’d started last year became moot or got put ( Read more... ) -
Some Christmas Movie Reviews
We have our favorites we watch every year, of course, but inspired by my online buddy Alonso's book Have Yourself a Movie Little Christmas, I've been obtaining new ones, and of course now we have a glut of Hallmarky romances available on streaming as well. Here are some we watched.
Remember the Night, which took me years to get because it wasn't ( Read more... ) -
I am the audience
Or "Stan's Best of 2019".
A weird year in many respects. Did not do a ton of media consumption, except in one specific respect.
OperaI saw four performances at the Met this spring, all excellent. "Falstaff", the Puccini "Trittico", and the last two Ring Cycle operas. Falstaff was a wonderful discovery for me - I'd known it existed, but had had ( Read more... ) -
Christmas Wrap-Up
I love Christmas, but this year's was definitely one to be gotten over with rather than savored and enjoyed. No fault of the holiday, but when you just got laid off and your family is going through a lot, stocking stuffers are not what you want to focus on.
But it went fine. Christmas cards did make it out the door, although whether they all ( Read more... ) -
A veritable smorgasbord-orgasbord-orgasbord
Just a lot of little bitsies ( Read more... ) -
U-turn
OK, so in one sense I just got thrown off the bus, and in another, I just swam back to shore. No, that doesn't make sense. You know how when you're on a road trip and you get lost and then you figure out you're going in the wrong direction, but you can't get off the highway? And you just want to get to that next exit so you could stop driving in ( Read more... )
