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Items of mundaneity
Oct. 5th, 2005 07:25 pm1. 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.
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.