Mixed Moss

Sam asked how I am. Fair enough; I haven’t truly posted in a while because I’ve been disgruntled, and I don’t like to sound gloomy too often.
How am I? How am I. Burned out. Tired. Be-worried. In need of a vacation.
Ahh, vacation. I haven’t had one since I can’t really remember when. I went to […]

It’s pouring down rain this morning. Has been for hours now.The drops have turned into sheets which the wind has turned horizontal and the puddles have formed streams. I stalled as long as I could, lingering over coffee and scone at the coffee shop and chatting with Courtney. But at last I had to face […]

Since I talk about the things I like so often I thought I’d throw out a few detractors, for balance.
1) The taxes.
2) Trash day in summer. The entire sidewalk smells.
3) Not enough grass and trees.
4) The sunrises and sunsets just aren’t as pretty here- but maybe that’s because of Cincinnati’s Seven Hills.
5) The woman on […]

“When people do the right thing, it’s called responsibility. When a company does the right thing, it’s called [insert the name of an insurance company I can’t remember].”
My friend Steve** posted today about how, today, he is going to try an experiement: he’s going to act on his better impulses. He’s going to […]

Last night, one of my flatmates and I were snooping around our kitchen, trying to find ingredients that actually went together into a meal for dinner. Eventually we came up with one that took me back about twenty years.
We had a little kid’s dinner: Those chicken nuggets you can get in the freezer section, corn, […]

Thing of beauty: Tutankhamun’s Pectoral with desert glass scarab
In 1996 in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, Italian mineralogist Vincenzo de Michele spotted an unusual yellow-green gem in the middle of one of Tutankhamun’s necklaces.
The jewel was tested and found to be glass, but intriguingly it is older than the earliest Egyptian civilisation.

Working with Egyptian geologist […]

I love music. It’s expresses so many things I only wish I could find the words for, leaving me with only the words, Why couldn’t I have written that? If I could pick something to be excellent at, I think songwriting might be it. The common experience told through the lens of one person; and […]

 
 

You Are a Soy Latte

At your best, you are: free spirited, down to earth, and relaxedAt your worst, you are: dogmatic and picky
You drink coffee when: you need a pick me up, and green tea isn’t cutting it
Your caffeine addiction level: medium

What Kind of Coffee Are You?

“We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of the dream. Wandering by lone sea breakers, and sitting by desolate streams. World losers and world forsakers, for whom the pale moon gleams.â€? -Arthur O’Shaughnessy
I’ve been dreamy lately. This does not lend itself to the job-hunt process, a process I am involved in yet […]