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Eat Chubby Hubby ice cream. One of Ben & Jerry's most tooth-rotting, taste-bud-pleasing creations, Chubby Hubby features chocolate-covered, peanut-butter-filled pretzels in vanilla malt ice cream with fudge and caramel ribbons. A sundae in a box. And the pretzels are salty. Yum.
Read Mommybird's terrific and informative entry on Julian of Norwich. Resolve to read the Short Text while in Boston on two-week vacation starting May 20.
Daydream about other things to be done while on vacation. Like sleeping extensively, eating many kinds of good food, having a Buffy-watching orgy with K (assuming her schedule permits), and hanging out with brother.
Try to remember how to make an origami crane. Fail. Be pleased at failing, because multiple attempts mean more time away from the Evil Preservation Plan.
Log on to AIM. Look for someone who you IM altogether too much. Fail. Tell yourself that it's better for your academic career that way. Fail to be convinced.
Standardize the metadata on your mp3s.
Decide that, though you are a serious humanities geek, you do have technogeek potential.
Opt to do something vaugely productive, like list the first lines of some of your favorite books, a la![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
mahoney by way of pistorius.
"My lifelong involvement with Mrs. Dempster began at 5:58 o'clock p.m. on 27 December 1908, at which time I was ten years and seven months old."
Robertson Davies, Fifth Business
"Before she falls asleep, Amelia allows herself a fantasy."
Perri Klass, Other Women's Children
On the principle that the best of the Lord Peter Wimsey novels by Dorothy L. Sayers are the Harriet Vane ones (though I am also pretty fond of Murder Must Advertise), and that those novels should be taken as a whole...
"There were crimson roses on the bench; they looked like splashes of blood."
Dorothy L. Sayers, Strong Poison
"I grew up around a father and a mother who read every chance they got, who took us to the library every Thursday night to load up on books for the coming week."
Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird: Some Thoughts On Writing And Life
"If you are interested in stories with happy endings, you would be better off reading some other book."
Lemony Snicket, A Series of Unfortunate Events: Book One: The Bad Beginning
Read Mommybird's terrific and informative entry on Julian of Norwich. Resolve to read the Short Text while in Boston on two-week vacation starting May 20.
Daydream about other things to be done while on vacation. Like sleeping extensively, eating many kinds of good food, having a Buffy-watching orgy with K (assuming her schedule permits), and hanging out with brother.
Try to remember how to make an origami crane. Fail. Be pleased at failing, because multiple attempts mean more time away from the Evil Preservation Plan.
Log on to AIM. Look for someone who you IM altogether too much. Fail. Tell yourself that it's better for your academic career that way. Fail to be convinced.
Standardize the metadata on your mp3s.
Decide that, though you are a serious humanities geek, you do have technogeek potential.
Opt to do something vaugely productive, like list the first lines of some of your favorite books, a la
mahoney by way of pistorius."My lifelong involvement with Mrs. Dempster began at 5:58 o'clock p.m. on 27 December 1908, at which time I was ten years and seven months old."
Robertson Davies, Fifth Business
"Before she falls asleep, Amelia allows herself a fantasy."
Perri Klass, Other Women's Children
On the principle that the best of the Lord Peter Wimsey novels by Dorothy L. Sayers are the Harriet Vane ones (though I am also pretty fond of Murder Must Advertise), and that those novels should be taken as a whole...
"There were crimson roses on the bench; they looked like splashes of blood."
Dorothy L. Sayers, Strong Poison
"I grew up around a father and a mother who read every chance they got, who took us to the library every Thursday night to load up on books for the coming week."
Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird: Some Thoughts On Writing And Life
"If you are interested in stories with happy endings, you would be better off reading some other book."
Lemony Snicket, A Series of Unfortunate Events: Book One: The Bad Beginning