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plenty of nothin this weekend
Apr. 2nd, 2006 08:59 pmWell, despite the fact that the severe thunderstorm warning ended 15 minutes ago, it just started booming and pouring out. Yeah = spring in Chicago is like that. I finally turned off my largest radiator today, after realizing it was 78 degrees in here. So when we have snow tomorrow, it will be my fault.
I feel MUCH better - only coughed up little lumpies this morning, and only minor gurgling the rest of the day - which is good because I have something like 5 doses of my last anti-inflammatory inhaler left. I will know if I have a for-reals job (and the associated insurance) in about a week (4/9). Assume maybe a week or so to get things moving and I should be in for a full physical by mid-month.
I had to do some housework, as the utter lack of clean dishes had me reduced to eating my cereal out of a coffee mug with a measuring spoon. But I even had enough energy to make brownies (from a box), and to try and make seasoned rice-ball-things. Basically, I made a big pot of rice, mixed in the appropriate amount of seasoned vinegar, and squished it into a 9X9 pan lined with plastic wrap. A layer of ebi rice seasoning went someplace in the mddle. It's not really sticking too well, prolly since I used the last of the cheeeeep rice I got from the Kraft Fairy sometime last year instead of proper sushi rice. Still, I can scoop it into a bowl if necessary and it will taste fine.
My new manager starts tomorrow. The COO is back from NJ on Tuesday, so I have lots of meetings with one or both, plus my review. I'm rather looking forward to spending a week or so explaining things and then going back to being a boring little admin again. I made a list of all the issues regarding membership that need to be considered - what it IS, what it SHOULD BE, and how to average the two. Making the decision is someone else's problem. I wanna be able to listen to music, do boring stuffs, and then go home at night and not worry about stuffs.
Last night PBS ran a Monty Python marathon which I DVDd. Confusion about what time it ended with the clock change led to my accidentally recording an extra hour - which turned out to be Terry Jones' "Story of 1". It was actually pretty cool - a bit overenthralled with cute computer graphics, but a funny and surprisingly informative hour about the history of various number systems. My favorite moments included a brief glimpse of a sudsy Archemides running past the rather startled narrator, two imagined Egyptian builders looking at their pyramid built without a standardized cubit ("is it supposed to look like that?"), an Indian mathemetician complaining that his culture's numbers keep getting referred to as "Arabic", an explanation of binary numbers using labeled egg-cups, and a little bit at the end of the credits where one of the numbers says that he really prefers working for Michael Palin. It's worth keeping an eye out for.
Reading this weekend featured Lesley Downer's Madame Sadayakko - the geisha who bewitched the West, about the first real Japanese theatre troupe to tour the west, and the former geisha who became their star and went on to change the Japanese theatre and the role of women in it. A good though not great read, mpstly because source material is somehwat limited. I've got a small but detailed bunch of books on the history of geisha, and Lesley's works are prominently featured. This one was from the library, but I might want to pick up a used copy for my collection at some point.
Now another nice hot bath and an early bed. mmmmmmm.
I feel MUCH better - only coughed up little lumpies this morning, and only minor gurgling the rest of the day - which is good because I have something like 5 doses of my last anti-inflammatory inhaler left. I will know if I have a for-reals job (and the associated insurance) in about a week (4/9). Assume maybe a week or so to get things moving and I should be in for a full physical by mid-month.
I had to do some housework, as the utter lack of clean dishes had me reduced to eating my cereal out of a coffee mug with a measuring spoon. But I even had enough energy to make brownies (from a box), and to try and make seasoned rice-ball-things. Basically, I made a big pot of rice, mixed in the appropriate amount of seasoned vinegar, and squished it into a 9X9 pan lined with plastic wrap. A layer of ebi rice seasoning went someplace in the mddle. It's not really sticking too well, prolly since I used the last of the cheeeeep rice I got from the Kraft Fairy sometime last year instead of proper sushi rice. Still, I can scoop it into a bowl if necessary and it will taste fine.
My new manager starts tomorrow. The COO is back from NJ on Tuesday, so I have lots of meetings with one or both, plus my review. I'm rather looking forward to spending a week or so explaining things and then going back to being a boring little admin again. I made a list of all the issues regarding membership that need to be considered - what it IS, what it SHOULD BE, and how to average the two. Making the decision is someone else's problem. I wanna be able to listen to music, do boring stuffs, and then go home at night and not worry about stuffs.
Last night PBS ran a Monty Python marathon which I DVDd. Confusion about what time it ended with the clock change led to my accidentally recording an extra hour - which turned out to be Terry Jones' "Story of 1". It was actually pretty cool - a bit overenthralled with cute computer graphics, but a funny and surprisingly informative hour about the history of various number systems. My favorite moments included a brief glimpse of a sudsy Archemides running past the rather startled narrator, two imagined Egyptian builders looking at their pyramid built without a standardized cubit ("is it supposed to look like that?"), an Indian mathemetician complaining that his culture's numbers keep getting referred to as "Arabic", an explanation of binary numbers using labeled egg-cups, and a little bit at the end of the credits where one of the numbers says that he really prefers working for Michael Palin. It's worth keeping an eye out for.
Reading this weekend featured Lesley Downer's Madame Sadayakko - the geisha who bewitched the West, about the first real Japanese theatre troupe to tour the west, and the former geisha who became their star and went on to change the Japanese theatre and the role of women in it. A good though not great read, mpstly because source material is somehwat limited. I've got a small but detailed bunch of books on the history of geisha, and Lesley's works are prominently featured. This one was from the library, but I might want to pick up a used copy for my collection at some point.
Now another nice hot bath and an early bed. mmmmmmm.
