In Case I Don't Reply Right Away...
it's because I'm working on those New Year's Resolutions this long weekend.
For example, I dragged my sorry ass out of bed at a decent hour this morning, actually ate breakfast for a change (and I'm not talking coffee and the Internet), and managed to show up at dance class for the first time in months. And I'm ahead in my homework. Let's see how long that lasts.
Now it's off to the orchestra tonight (I got free tickets again), so not much time for blogging and commenting, but there's always tomorrow.
For example, I dragged my sorry ass out of bed at a decent hour this morning, actually ate breakfast for a change (and I'm not talking coffee and the Internet), and managed to show up at dance class for the first time in months. And I'm ahead in my homework. Let's see how long that lasts.
Now it's off to the orchestra tonight (I got free tickets again), so not much time for blogging and commenting, but there's always tomorrow.
Labels: dance, humor, New Year's resolutions
posted by Kristine | Saturday, January 13, 2007
17 Comments:
Hi Kristine! How was the orchestra? I hope you had a lovely time.
When you grab a moment, I just came across This article about possibly some of the oldest human artifacts in North America having just been discovered in Minnesota.
I thought I'd point it out, since you've been so busy.
By the way, I've been having a terrible time trying to comment on your blog. I click the "comments" link, and the page just never seems to load.
It finally loaded this time, but took like forever.
I haven't been commenting much anywhere (I've been busy, too!), so it may just be a general blogger issue, I don't know. I haven't abandoned you or anything!
Just so y'know.
Kisses
Blogger blows.
Dear JanieBelle. Of course I didn't think you and Kate and the boy had abandoned me. We are all busy.
Rev. Chimpy, you said it. Blogger blows goats! I don't know what the hell to do about the comments, because I'm having problems commenting at my own blog (plus I have to sign in a bazillion times!).
Thanks for the link. Those probable human artifacts were in the STrib--they actually aren't that much to look at. I know from my short stint at the archaeological dig last summer that it's terribly hard to discern, at least at first, which is human-made and which is just a freak of geology--and that was sorting for tools from just 100 years ago. It seems that the controversy will continue with the digging when spring comes.
The orchestra was great--Tchaikovsky's 4th. Plus, our friend Jan Elftman had her 50th birthday afterward, and she had her guests making crafts--spirograph in a washing machine, objects spinning in the dryer (ever thrown random objects into a dryer and turned it on?), costumes made out of duct tape, etc. I made a "grass skirt" out of an armful of green shoelaces and a "lei" out of some kind of weird, large, spiky plastic beads that had golden glitter in them.
Those beads were sharp. That lei hurt.
I loved it! ;-)
Hugs and shimmies!
What was your archaeological stint last summer? Eliot park?
It was at the Mill Ruins Park archaeological dig, the Cataract Mill complex. John was filming for a documentary and I was digging.
Man, did I get into digging. I would be practically upside down, scraping with my trowel and yakking with the archaeologists, and pretty soon three hours had gone by!
I think that's scary, because it's not like we made exciting discoveries often (though a few were exciting--ceramic pipes, a seemingly bottomless shaft, and some red brick, unlike the usual yellow. Ooooh. (I used to work for a historic consulting firm and had to write up descriptions of all those same mills, too--lots of yellow brick).
THIS DAY IN HISTORY, 1947
Since you're busy I wasn't sure if you'd remember. Nothing to go to pieces over. Hold yourself together. [insert your own bad pun here]
ScaryFacts
No, my friend, I didn't forget! (Because I got an e-mail reminder from Pamela at the Black Dahlia Website.)
And I owe you guys a photo! When I get my act together... (I couldn't find a vise, though. I thought about putting my head in the orange juicer, but then decided that that looked silly.)
Ah, ooh, cool... red brick ..... we Easterners miss our red brick. We have WHOLE CITIES made of red brick.
The street I grew up on was paved with red brick. No kidding. (but, not far away was a road through the forest, a few miles long and running over the creek down below the Billiard Ball factory and the Dairy Farm ... the road was ... and I'm not kidding ... made of Yellow Brick. So we would go down and Follow the Yellow Brick Road on hot summer nights.)
Kent told me you found some at the Mill Ruins, but I didn't believe him. Nice to have independent confirmation. Must have been really cool.
So you know Kent Bakken!
Here's a photo of me uncovering the brick.
I am a colleague of Kent's. In the old days, I was a North American archaeologist (including some industrial archaeology, by the way). Kent is a grad student in my department. I work with him on the Eliot Park archaeology project.
Nice picture. Kinda hard to see the brick, though...
Yeah, it didn’t turn out as well in the pic. (And you’re probably blinded by my white, fat thighs!) ;-)
You should check out the Eliot Park project next summer. Kent runs it. We've been digging on property owned by the Minnesota Aids Project in, of course, Eliot Park Neighborhood. The project will probably happen there again this year.
I'll probably miss it as I'll be in South Africa (depending on when it is)
Whoa, South Africa! The head of our department went there twice. Actually, there's a class in International Librarianship offered in South Africa this summer, but it costs an arm and a leg and besides, I'm going to the Galapagos this May. But enjoy yourself.
Thanks, I will definitely check out the Eliot Park site! (More than likely John will be filming it, anyway.) :)
The Galapagos! That sounds like fun.
*Gloat*
Well, OK, but I too will be following in the footsteps of Darwin. He did visit a few other places besides the Galapagos during that five year voyage, you know.
That's right! In fact, he went around the world before he even went to those islands. And he escaped a tidal wave in South America, I do believe.
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