Spider on Silk Flower, Owen County, Indiana
Month: September 2007
Window
Window, Owen County, Indiana
I went out to Owen County today. It rained pretty much the whole time, which kind of sucked, but everything out there was impossibly green. It made a nice change from all the dead, brown grass in town. With the rain we’ve gotten the past couple of days, hopefully Bloomington will green up a bit before fall sets in for good.
The clean-up was kind of a pain in the ass, but I scored some fun art stuff and several small tackle boxes. Also, lots of quarters, so I might actually have enough change to do laundry in the morning.
A Fond Farewell
If I have something that is too difficult for adults to swallow, then I will write it in a book for children.
Madeleine L’Engle, Circle of Quiet
Madeleine L’Engle died yesterday. I love children’s books and have always been a huge fan of her writing, in part because she doesn’t condescend to kids. She will be greatly missed.
Are You Talking to Me?
I have a coworker who has a habit of randomly talking to no one in particular. I never know whether or not to answer. Is she talking to me? I just don’t know. It shouldn’t matter, but when no one answers her, I feel badly.
Who are you talking to, woman?!!!
I really do need an MP3 player.
Overheard in the Elevator
There are a lot of discussions I don’t want to listen to while stuck in an elevator. Somewhere on that list is the subject of surgical urethral enlargement. Doubleplusespecially when I am coming back upstairs with the snack I just purchased in the cafeteria.
I don’t think I’m hungry, now.
Thursday Dog Blogging
Waiting for Bedtime
Our evening routine consists of one last potty break, then Harriet and Pandora get their bedtime snack, then I brush my teeth, turn off lights, etc. Harriet waits for “real bedtime” in her own bed, while I feed the cat and finish getting ready. After I go to bed, she hops up on the big bed with me. This is her waiting in her own bed for “real bedtime.”
Thursday Work
The Remembrancer: The Best Laid Plans
collage (magazine clippings and architectural plans)
4 3/4 x 8 1/4 inches
The Remembrancer: Sangre
collage (ink jet print, book fragments, yearbook photos, magazine clippings, and altered Polaroid)
4 3/4 x 8 1/4 inches
The Remembrancer: New Constellations
collage (anatomical illustration, magazine clipping, map, button, and yearbook photos)
4 3/4 x 8 1/4 inches
And with that, there is one two-page spread and two single pages to go, and the book will be done.
The Remembrancer: Odalisque
The Remembrancer: Odalisque
collage (anatomical illustration, magazine clipping, raffle tickets, glass, label, and token)
4 3/4 x 8 1/4 inches
The Remembrancer: Button Up
The Remembrancer: Button Up
collage (leaf, buttons, and child’s dress pattern) with Neocolors II water-soluble crayons and gesso
4 3/4 x 8 1/4 inches
Which makes me think of this:
Show me the ways to button up buttons
That have forgotten they’re buttons
Well we can’t have that
Forgetting that
Girls
Excuse Me, Can I Park My Giant, Wooden Horse Here?
Have you ever been totally and completely boggled at the holes in others’ education? Yesterday, a coworker was searching for an AWOL book that a patron had requested be rush cataloged. The book? The Iliad. My coworker, armed with a printout of the catalog record, began to describe the book to me.
Coworker: It’s 600 pages.
Me: Yes, I know. I’ve read it about umpty times.
Coworker: Oh. Um.
Me: It’s good.
Coworker: It says it’s poetry. [Inconceivable that someone would read 600 pages of poetry!]
Me: It’s an epic poem. [Hmmm. Does she know what “epic” means?]
Coworker: [Looking at the bib record.] What’s the Trojan War?
Me: [Gobsmacked] I don’t think I can help you.
How?! How does that happen?! How can someone never have heard of the Trojan war, Homer, or The Iliad?
Kalypso, from The Odyssey of Homer, translated by Richard Lattimore, 1991.
My copy of The Iliad is even more marked up than The Odyssey.
And, speaking of the Trojan war and people who appear to be completely ignorant of even the most famous parts of the story (via Got Medieval):
red paper boat 