No earrings today

I was halfway to the bus stop when I realized my ears were naked. Oh, no!

Annual review today. My boss says she approves of me.


Bedtime reading: Modesty Blaise: The Gabriel Set-Up, Peter O'Donnell, Jim Holdaway, il

The Past

"Photography preserves moments like flies in amber."
- - Rudolf Arnheim

Kinda scary: http://www.ambericawest.com/fieldguide6.html
http://www.amberworkshop.com/buy_amber_inclusions_insects_and_plants.htm
http://www.mineralminers.com/html/ambmins.stm
but the book's not bad: http://www.wilmccarthy.com/Ffta.htm


Today's earrings: flies, amber

Bedtime reading: Modesty Blaise: The Gabriel Set-Up, Peter O'Donnell, Jim Holdaway, il

The Future

Made my first post to Craigslist, and shifted some plastic stackable desk boxes.
Reserved a hotel room.
Finally brought home the Amazon package that came last week.
Ate soup for dinner.

Contents of package:
A Chronicle and Flora of Niihau, Juliet Rice Wichman & Harold St. John, National Tropical Botanical Garden 1990
How to Disagree Without Being Disagreeable, Suzette Haden Elgin, John Wiley & Sons, Inc 1997
Modesty Blaise: The Gabriel Set-Up, Peter O'Donnell, Jim Holdaway, il. 2004
The Twelve Terrors of Christmas, John Updike, Edward Gorey, il., Pomegranate 2006
Rethinking Thin, Gina Kolata, Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2007
The Reminder, Feist, Cherrytree/Interscope 2007
Kill to Get Crimson, Mark Knopfler, Warner Bros. Records 2007
Drastic Fantastic, KT Tunstall, Virgin 2007


Today's earrings: dragonflies, other dragonflies

Bedtime reading: Modesty Blaise: The Gabriel Set-Up, Peter O'Donnell, Jim Holdaway, il.