Office Party

It was oddly archetypal. I arrived last (pleading work), got some pretty decent food from the buffet, donned a silly hat in response to peer pressure, watched the boss's boss present stuff to senior staff, and was the first to slip back to my desk (pleading work). From my desk, I heard the music get louder, and the woman I don't like cried, "Karaoke!" Later refugees told me there was dancing. One of them stayed and talked to me for twenty minutes because his office was at Party Central and, he said, the woman I don't like kept insisting he dance with her. Around 1pm, my boss announced a half day, and people started wandering off. I left at 3pm (lots of work) and went to Green Apple.


Today's earrings: turquoise, turtles

Bedtime reading: Miracle, Connie Willis

The web is a most astonishing resource

Tonight I stumbled across a scrap of etymology: Oil of vitriol
Cool, huh?


Today's earrings: turquoise, aquamarines

Bedtime reading: Hard Row, Margaret Maron

Today, I employed an unusual strategy

I chose my earrings to match my outfit, and for no other reason. Looked good, too.


Today's earrings: turquoise, aqua swirls

Bedtime reading: The Great War and Modern Memory, Paul Fussell

The Pied Pepper

This evening I filled Pepper Bunny with mixed peppercorns: black, white, pink, and green. He's the Pied Pepper Bunny. Gerard Manley Hopkins would swoon...


Today's earrings: turquoise, groovy swirly blue & green glass rounds

Bedtime reading: The Cunning Man, Robertson Davies

Untoward motion

http://www.phy.ntnu.edu.tw/ntnujava/index.php?topic=24

Crusin' and playin' the radio
With no particular place to go
- - Chuck Berry


Today's purchase:
Neverwhere, Neil Gaiman (Avon)
Anansi Boys, Neil Gaiman (William Morrow an imprint of HarperCollins)
Staring at the Sea, The Cure (Elektra/Asylum)


Today's earrings: turquoise, blue glass swirly beads

Bedtime reading: The Gospel of Food, Barry Glassner

Turn, Turn, Turn

What I didn't have for dinner: turbot, turkey, and turtle in a turqouise tureen with a turmeric/turnip turnover on the side. Just as well; such a meal could only bring turbulence and turmoil.


Today's earrings: turquoise rounds, turtles

Bedtime reading: The Turquoise Lament. John D. MacDonald