"let me tell you something, virge. the world is divided into two parts: beer drinkers and wine sippers. in other words, the world is divided into beer drinkers and assholes."
"the night is far spent, the day is at hand. therefore let us cast off the works of darkness and let us put on the armor of light."
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Done!
done done! GIZZMOOO
one day, when we’re old and grey and reminiscing about handsome young men in uniform, i am going to write a memoir of my friendship with jenny entitled “as i lay laughing.”
we can start with chapter 1: jenzo and reks on clothing, sartorial choice, and bad idea outfits.
wnyc you are boring me!
and i’m so easily distracted because i have MOUNTAINS of homework in front of me so i am going to go walk my dog instead.
De-stickered my bike today. I think it looks better and probably less likely to get stolen, too.
it’s still a bianchi. and that’s still my hairdyer. : )
also, i thought it would look less pretty without the stickers on it, but it’s gorgeous all silver. have you thought about aqua polka dots? just saying.
@dcwhip
Well, let’s see, I’ve been up by five, in my office between 7 and 8. Yesterday Sofia and I went to the science museum but Monday and today it’s an until 4 o’clock day.
I have tons of work to do; research, chapters to read. The good news is I’m on my way toward getting my survey approved…
COCKTAIL PARTY = music to my ears?
when are you arriving again?
At Yeliou
Coffee by the Specific Ocean!
A lovely afternoon
Taiwan Day 3 was action packed! Highlights: Yeliou Mountain & The Queen’s Head, BBQ squid, night market, hot springs! Guy has more detailed posts, so I’ll just give you the highlights.
We spent the day with my cousin Ting Shuen and her husband Andy, and their two Taiwanese/Australian friends, Carl and Sandy. We started out in Taipei, and then journeyed outside of town.
Let me tell you how you know you’ve left the city: there are squat toilets.
I’m sorry to be indelicate, but I’m just telling you how it is. I don’t understand the squat toilet, I don’t want to use the squat toilet, and in general I prefer to pretend it doesn’t exist. Often the squat toilets don’t have any bog roll (as Guy would call it) and so you just hope that you have some tissues with you. Or, like me, you wait until you get somewhere that has a “Western style toilet.”
Also, have you ever had barbecued squid? Let me tell you how it’s done. You take a squid, and cut it down the center with a pair of scissors. Slap it on the grill. After a few minutes, turn, and baste with sauce. Cut into pieces, skewer and chew. It’s just as chewy as you think it would be.
In the evening, we went to the Shilin night market, which is one of the most famous and popular in Taipei. It’s extremely crowded with shoppers, vendors selling everything you can imagine. Jewelry, shoes, accessories, clothes, underwear, bags - and all at pretty great prices.
There are also a ton of food vendors selling all kinds of Chinese snacks. We had lots of tasty things, but the highlight of the evening’s eating was when Carl said to Guy, “try this, you’ll like it.” Guy gamely took a bite of something on a skewer and asked what it was. ”Oh! It’s duck’s tongue!”
After the night market, we went to Taiwanese hot springs. The hot springs are not all actually hot. There were five baths all told, plus a wet and a dry sauna. One is scalding hot, which is were all the experienced bathers seemed to be hanging out. There was also a warm one, which Sandy and I preferred, and two freezing cold baths, which no one seemed to have any interest in whatsoever. Let me tell you what - nothing compares to the feeling of soaking in warm water with a cool night breeze on your face.
After our action packed day, zzzzzz.
you look like you’re having a fabulous time, so i won’t tell you to come home. instead, i’ll go play mama at tennis and whoop her.
so, see you next week : ) POTLUCK THURSDAY will be puppy-free for two weeks; he’s staying in baltimore until easter.
legitimate conversations in my family:
reks: i couldn’t sleep at all last night for fear of ghosts. you got me all scared of ghosts before going to sleep.
mhws: you’re the one who told me the place was haunted!
reks: no, i said the last place was haunted. you got me all worked up about this place, said puppy saw a ghost.
mhws: oh that’s right. and maybe he was just having a penny-moment.
reks: you told me we had to go find out what was spooking him.
mhws: and you found the settee.
reks: the haunted one.
mhws: they’re probably no ghosts at all. no ghosties. no ghosties!
reks: we better hope they’re ghosts. tons and tons of ‘em. otherwise rapture done come and gone and left us and we were deemed unworthy.
mhws: oh gawd!
yama-bato:Adelaide Hanscom Leeson
The Sonnets from the Portuguese by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
This collection of poetry, written about 1960, was quite popular in the early 1900’s. Hanscom worked on these illustrations from about 1906 until they were published in 1915. As in the Rubaiyat, both a sepia version and a tinted version of the book was published.
Many of the illustrations for the Sonnets show the influence of her classical art training.
