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And it rained & rained.
But I love autumn rain, love it more on a lazy Saturday when there is nothing to do but loll around and outline Constitutional law. Next to my desk I have, propped up behind my neat row of casebooks, a large framed photograph of the Supreme Court circa 1930something. They watch over me with stern eyes but fair and equal hearts. Only a photograph of the Warren Court could top it - and this is perhaps not the forum to delve into my love affair with dead white male judges.
In other words I am usually productive.
We will see how long that lasts. After all my recent boasting at my ability to live television-free, I ordered cable. But it's not my fault! Once a week or so, when I find myself thinking "gosh, it'd be nice to be able to turn the tv on right now," I go to Comcast's website and look over their monthly prices, and it's enough to kick the thought right out of my head. But then this morning I find myself facing a new service six-month special - thirty dollars a month for *digital* cable *plus* HBO. Regular non-digital cable is fifty. Six months would take me almost entirely through the rest of the academic year, so in other words the time of year that I actually want to have cable. And digital! It feels so decadent. They're coming to install it in a week. I plan to work tirelessly until then, in anticipation of at least a few days worth of deprivation-induced tv-mania.
My mother claims to have heard that Beth Orton is putting out a new album early next year (and it is a little horrifying to realize that "next year" = less than three months,, where HAS 2005 gone?) but I can't seem to find confirmation of this. It's always nervewracking when a favorite comes out with something new; there's such a risk of unmet expectations. But it's hard to imagine that happening. I never thought anything could top Central Reservation and while I don't know that Daybreaker *topped* it - it's hard to compare the albums that way - it certainly didn't disappoint. I can see Beth as one of those artists that just never peaks.
I can't believe it's still raining.
But I love autumn rain, love it more on a lazy Saturday when there is nothing to do but loll around and outline Constitutional law. Next to my desk I have, propped up behind my neat row of casebooks, a large framed photograph of the Supreme Court circa 1930something. They watch over me with stern eyes but fair and equal hearts. Only a photograph of the Warren Court could top it - and this is perhaps not the forum to delve into my love affair with dead white male judges.
In other words I am usually productive.
We will see how long that lasts. After all my recent boasting at my ability to live television-free, I ordered cable. But it's not my fault! Once a week or so, when I find myself thinking "gosh, it'd be nice to be able to turn the tv on right now," I go to Comcast's website and look over their monthly prices, and it's enough to kick the thought right out of my head. But then this morning I find myself facing a new service six-month special - thirty dollars a month for *digital* cable *plus* HBO. Regular non-digital cable is fifty. Six months would take me almost entirely through the rest of the academic year, so in other words the time of year that I actually want to have cable. And digital! It feels so decadent. They're coming to install it in a week. I plan to work tirelessly until then, in anticipation of at least a few days worth of deprivation-induced tv-mania.
My mother claims to have heard that Beth Orton is putting out a new album early next year (and it is a little horrifying to realize that "next year" = less than three months,, where HAS 2005 gone?) but I can't seem to find confirmation of this. It's always nervewracking when a favorite comes out with something new; there's such a risk of unmet expectations. But it's hard to imagine that happening. I never thought anything could top Central Reservation and while I don't know that Daybreaker *topped* it - it's hard to compare the albums that way - it certainly didn't disappoint. I can see Beth as one of those artists that just never peaks.
I can't believe it's still raining.
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Susan from CBDA says what up?!
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