I have been having entirely too much to do with skewers over the last couple of weeks. Three barbeques in the space of roughly 10 days. And lots of playing around with wooden skewers. I have a big gash in my thumb to show for all my efforts. Had a 'How to start a fire in a grill without setting the entire park on fire' lesson yesterday. It was a wonderful picnic yesterday, sponsored by the South Asian Grad/Professional students association (SAGA). Perfect weather, good food and lots of fun.
Ended the day watching the movie 'It's a mad mad mad mad world'. Quite crazy, but being a movie from the '60s, I didn't quite enjoy the humour very thoroughly. I think what got to us was the running time of 2hrs and 45 min of people randomly driving crazily through the desert. I loved the Mama's boy though.
I'm now playing about with the Stickies notes application. It's an attempt to organize my life (or mostly waste more time pretending to be useful. It's called Structured procrastination, more on that sometime). I now have a grocery list, a list of errands and a list of movies I want to watch. The grocery list was the most conservative, except even with just three items on the list I ended up with a mountain of stuff and no space in the fridge. The movie list is growing. It is still deceptive because most of the titles on there are series with about a million seasons. Netflix, here I come!
During my random meanderings on the internet, I found a poem by Vikram Seth that I liked very much. I remember that it had something to do with time zones. The tragedy is that I never was able to find it again :( So here's another favorite...
All you who sleep tonight
Far from the ones you love,
No hand to left or right
And emptiness above-
Know that you aren't alone
The whole world shares your tears,
Some for two nights or one,
And some for all their years.
--Vikram Seth
Posted at 05:43 pm by histrionix
