Sweet potato fries and chicken. Not sure there will be much left of the fries by the time everything’s done- I keep eating them off the grill.
Monthly Archives: July 2014
This is how you know me and fashion are not mixy things
My major takeaway from Jezebel’s article about W’s “normcore” story using a ridiculous $$ value of designer threads went like this:
Wow, Birkenstock and Adidas sandals are back! Finally, my fashion moment has come!
followed immediately by
Why would you wear Nike socks with Adi slides?
with a chaser of
Wait, does this mean horrendously brightly colored Umbros are coming back, too?
Yep. Hopeless non-fashionista here.
The Morning After
Another World Cup has come and gone. *sigh*
On the bright side, it was a corker of a tournament, and my beloved Germany won.
On the also rather bright side, I woke up this morning astonishingly early (given how late I was awake and about last night) with a ridiculous energy level. I’m having a very productive morning. Paradoxically, productive mornings only ever add to my to-do list, as I have a million and one ideas on days like this.
On the less bright side… there is no football. Aside from pre-season training matches. When does the Bundesliga start again? August 23? Serie A? August 31? You want me to wait until the end of August*?? But that’s forever! /inner 5 year old
*Yes, I know there will be football before then. Napoli will be playing a friendly against Barca in early August, and Eintracht play Sampdoria. The Coppa Italia and DFB Pokal both start in mid-August. And yes, if I’m truly bored on the football front, I could try harder to take MLS seriously.
Surfacing
Oops. I guess I should resolve to post more regularly when there’s not a World Cup on. Fortunately, that’s nearly over. My library books are down to a number that can be counted on fingers*, with none of them overdue. I’m even making headway on finally reading a bunch of loans from friends, which have been languishing disapprovingly on a shelf because I’ve been trying to keep up with the library loans. I have also managed to not kill any of the plants in the edible garden, which means I now need to find out just what one does with a metric assload of zucchini.
I’ve also, in my abundant spare time, taken up genealogy. I may need to turn in a whole new round of interlibrary requests, because I have a feeling the answers to my questions about how representative various branches of my family are of the immigrant experience lie in academic libraries. (I always thought the trip from the old country was a one-way ticket. Not so much.) I’ve also learned that Ancestry.com is addictive- those hints suck you in!
I love summer.
*My own. Not anyone else’s.