Woke early enough to have a decent breakfast and get my mind in order before going to teach my first class. Wrestled with a broken door before teaching second class. My office’s door is screwed, the hinge messed up. I’m hoping someone shows up sometime next week to fix it. Went downtown to the dentist’s office to see about getting my wisdom tooth pulled. Got a filling instead, as well as some amalgam stuffed into the space around the offending decayed tooth… stuffed in so raggedly I keep havign to fight the urge to pick out all the loose, jagged …
Month: October 2004
Listen To The Words
The fiendish Adam asks us this week: What are your 5 favorite lines from any song? Not the song itself, but specific lyrics that you dig, and find yourself repeating in your head. Oh, now, that’s just not fair. I listen most of the time to instrumental music, man! I mean, no singing, no words… Well, I’m gonna have to cheat a wee bit, choosing songs that were at some point important to me, however brief that moment was; so please, please bear with me. The complete lyrics of the Nat King Cole song It’s ONly a Paper Moon, which …
When the Chicken Shit Hits The Fan
Via Simon World’s Asia By Blog roundup, here’s the most striking link in his most recent batch: one at serial deviant that says that The WHO says that human-to-human transmission of bird flu (H5N1 avian influenza) is now a real possibility, the last two cases being part of a family cluster. Oh, great. Fun times await.