Love To Do

I love to do lists. The last month or so, though, I've been fully incapable of making them. Despite having made a list for this week I noticed as I ticked away at it this morning that the accomplishments weren't exactly marked with high difficulty. I am a little discombobulated. My brain power has been going to socializing and while that may take a very small wattage for many of you it takes pretty much all the amps and volts I have. Doesn't mean I don't like doing it (usually) or like the people I'm doing it with (almost always) just means that it's not my default setting. The battery she runs right down.

All my way of saying that I'm just going to share some weird shit with you in a list of 10 format today.

1. For 2 days I've been watching the NY Times' Hawk Cam. There are apparently 3 eggs under the mama in the nest high up on a window ledge of the library of my alma mater. I haven't seen them yet but I will!

2. My dog disapproves of yoga. Or anything else that encourages people to stand on one leg. He would like me to tell you that you don't look one bit like a tree so you should quit it because it's weird and bothersome. That's what all his barking means. (Side note: Many thanks to the young lady in tree pose in the park at 6:30 this morning for being cool about having a small dog tell her off for working out.)

3. If you like books and you like things that are funny you should really be subscribed to Better Book Titles. Thanks go to Kath for tipping me off to it while we sat in the corner at a party and made up titles for Melville books. ("Whale! Turn Around!!!!!")

4. I met a famous author at dinner the other night. I had already read one of her books. Now I can't decide which one to read next.

5. Oh, right, I owe you guys a winner of the Comstock video. DVD arrived a while ago I just need to wrap my head around setting up the list for the randomizer to choose from. I've got a 4 day weekend starting Thursday. I have big hopes for this sort of thing to be done then.

6. One of the things I didn't quite expect from Twitter, though I should have, happened today. A blogger posted her own obituary, written in the first person then killed herself, leaving the internet to decide how to get her help. As I didn't follow her before this happened I am only getting information third hand but it seems that she succeeded. It's a strange and terrible thing on a number of different levels.

7. I'm still posting photos of China because I'm still processing them. I'm up to the part where we visited the Temple of Heaven. Lots of math involved in the construction of that temple. 3 times 3 of these and 9 times 9 of these and 27 of these all laid out so that you can hear a whisper on the other side. Very cool and somewhat intimidating.

8. Someone keeps asking me what I'm doing for Easter. I keep saying, "I...don't really...celebrate Easter." That sounds weird to me but it's accurate. I'm technically Christian (Congregationalist if you want to put me on the lists somewhere) but Easter wasn't something we spent a lot of time on. Sometimes my grandmother made ham so we wore skirts and ate it. Oh, and once there was a chocolate egg hunt. She hid one of the eggs inside a crocus.

9. If there was an egg hunt I could go to I would celebrate that way, I think. That feels worth making an effort.

10. Is there anything you'd like to tell me?