Items of mundaneity

[katallison]

1. Monday it was 85 degrees here, sticky and sweltering. Yesterday, by way of a segue, we had massive earth-shattering thunderstorms and five or six inches of rain. Tonight it will get down to freezing, with snow not far north of us. Ah, midwest, you may be a headache but you never are a bore.

2. While running an errand just now, I spied, in the darkening skies over St. Paul, a large, luminous object, about the size of the moon, with a slightly darker disc in the center and blinking lights along the bottom. It floated slowly and gently northwards, glowing as if lit from within. Nobody else seemed to notice it at all. Upon reflection, I think it must have been a large illuminated blimp, viewed end-on, but it was most extremely odd-looking.

3. Paula Zahn has discovered the avian flu threat! And is banging the doomsday gong on CNN! Me, I think it's high time somebody besides wacky catastrophists like myself (and the CDC, and WHO, und so weiter) paid some attention to this, but it makes me grumpy that it takes belated and inadequate notice from Bush to actually get some public attention on the thing.

4. The Jeeves and Wooster DVDs really are as good as everyone told me, once I managed to get Bertie Wooster disentagled from Greg House in my brain.

5. And finally, if one does massive quantities of laundry, no matter how virtuous and accomplished this makes one feel, one eventually has to also put away massive quantities of laundry. So sad.

Comments

[namastenancy.livejournal.com]

Laundry is amazing. First it expects you to get it clean and then (to add insult to injury), it expect YOU to put it away. Darn ungrateful stuff!

Jeeves and Wooster vs House - I know what you mean.

Stay warm or cool or inside (or not). Midwest weather is sure wacky. Here's hoping you can exchange it for some Seattle rain. Well, and earthquakes as well but what's a few cracks in the ground to a seasoned weather survival person like yourself.

[tracy-rowan.livejournal.com]

Really, laundry is much the most demanding and ungrateful chore there is. It requires diligence, determination and generally several trips to the basement or wherever one keeps ones washer and dryer, including one for fabric softener without which your laundry will be impossible to live with for the next week. Then it ends up clean but requiring folding and storing, and often it requires ironing! *gesture of exasperation* It's the Scarlett O'Hara of household chores.

[miss-pryss.livejournal.com]

Oh, come on. You CLEARLY saw a UFO. Don't try to rationalize it away, Scully!

[imkalena.livejournal.com]

2. Yeah, there was apparently a HUGE to-do over the reappearance of our beloved hockey team, so a blimp wouldn't be out of the question. They had a big street party, closed off 7th. Hell, I heard fireworks after the game.

5. MMMM, clean laundry.

[flambeau.livejournal.com]

So I tried to copy and paste a bit of your post to comment on, and apparently I didn't hit the keys hard enough or something, because what got pasted at first was a line about McKay being grouchy... anyway.

one eventually has to also put away massive quantities of laundry

Nonsense. It is perfectly possible to live with a giant pile of clean laundry in a chair for a good long time...

[akite.livejournal.com]

I think that cold front is supposed to be getting to us down in Texas tonight (Thursday). Of course, we won't be getting any snow, but it's supposed to drop our temperatures about 20 degrees from the 90-100 range down to the 70-80s. Yay!