Gimme a Break
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captainsblogWhether that makes you think of the old Nell Carter series or those mindnumbing Kit Kat commercials, I rather needed one from here after going at least one entry a day for the entire month of March.
Teh Busy has taken other forms:
Work, duh. After the hideousness of February, March fell more into the not-great-not-bad category in terms of results, but the last week, especially, brought a large number of meetings, and near-meetings, with new clients who already are showing potential to produce an even better April.
Filmage. We really enjoyed Atonement, and partly due to the middle-era Briony performance in it by Romola Garai, we went back and rented her equally compelling role (along with Reese Witherspoon's and a half dozen others) in Mira Nair's adaptation of Vanity Fair (or "Thackeray Blonde," as a wag around the house took to calling it based on the DVD jacket). We haven't even gotten to Hogfather yet, although my brief check of the disk produced five minutes or so of marvelous looking fun along with the dear departed Ian Richardson as the VOICE OF DEATH (why didn't you like it, you yes you?), and next to arrive will be Feast of Love.
Bookage. By total coincidence, I found an interesting new novel on the New Book shelf called The Soul Thief, which winds up (a) being by the author of the Feast of Love novel, and (b) set primarily in Buffalo, and quite realistically, because UB is where said author got his PhD in the early 70s timeframe of the book. Its view of the city is as unchanging as the city itself is, and I'm enjoying it already.
And of course there'll be sport. Baseball opened three nights ago (for me, anyway), the Bills announced their pre-season schedule (including their first-ever "home game" at the Skydome), and although I refuse to watch it, there's another local team that remained mathematically alive at today's start of play.
I trust that provides a just and true account of my whereabouts.
Teh Busy has taken other forms:
Work, duh. After the hideousness of February, March fell more into the not-great-not-bad category in terms of results, but the last week, especially, brought a large number of meetings, and near-meetings, with new clients who already are showing potential to produce an even better April.
Filmage. We really enjoyed Atonement, and partly due to the middle-era Briony performance in it by Romola Garai, we went back and rented her equally compelling role (along with Reese Witherspoon's and a half dozen others) in Mira Nair's adaptation of Vanity Fair (or "Thackeray Blonde," as a wag around the house took to calling it based on the DVD jacket). We haven't even gotten to Hogfather yet, although my brief check of the disk produced five minutes or so of marvelous looking fun along with the dear departed Ian Richardson as the VOICE OF DEATH (why didn't you like it, you yes you?), and next to arrive will be Feast of Love.
Bookage. By total coincidence, I found an interesting new novel on the New Book shelf called The Soul Thief, which winds up (a) being by the author of the Feast of Love novel, and (b) set primarily in Buffalo, and quite realistically, because UB is where said author got his PhD in the early 70s timeframe of the book. Its view of the city is as unchanging as the city itself is, and I'm enjoying it already.
And of course there'll be sport. Baseball opened three nights ago (for me, anyway), the Bills announced their pre-season schedule (including their first-ever "home game" at the Skydome), and although I refuse to watch it, there's another local team that remained mathematically alive at today's start of play.
I trust that provides a just and true account of my whereabouts.
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Date: 2008-04-04 12:56 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-04-04 01:00 am (UTC)They just seem to fare better when I'm not watching.
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Date: 2008-04-04 01:17 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-04-05 03:29 am (UTC)