"the hardest thing in this world is to live in it"
It’s tempting to think that beautiful things need to be allowed out in the sunshine to live, like a stoppered-up genie in a bottle, or a brilliant book gathering dust on a shelf. But some things can live large in the imagination. It just depends on the imagination.
-David Coleman, NYTimes
Mmmm goodies from Trader Joe’s. I’m so easily bought.
edited to add: and I am happy to report that although the dried dragon fruit is a very unnatural colour of transparent purple, it is oddly tasty in a way that is sweet, yet sort of spicy-sour. It would be quite good diced onto a spinach and pear salad with walnuts and blue cheese. An excellent “mistake” on my sister’s part!
I fear that my own obligations mean that Blogathon 2007 probably will not be something I participate in – if nothing else, I doubt I could garner pledges in the couple of days before Saturday. Uh, the two days before Saturday, that is – my sense of time has been off since Summer Camp.
Although, it occurs to me that I could participate this year, without raising money, just to have done it. I have to write a paper or two this weekend; perhaps I shall blog the paper as I write it – it would be an interesting way to both motivate myself to do a paper and to get feedback as I do it, eh?
Are any of the rest of you participating in the Blogathon? I didn’t see many academics listed…but I also didn’t look terribly closely. 😉
…what? Too obscure? Oh alright, fine. Here, this ought to get a laugh or two:
Tonight’s brilliant idea: blow off prepping for comps next summer, and all the other things I’ll have on my schedule, and race a 1 litre engine from England, across EurAsia, ending in Mongolia, with no preparation or modern tech like GPS and the like…
…it sounds so damned fun, it almost hurts.