2008
wednesday’s index
maura @ 10:45 pm
Years since we last subscribed to Harper’s Magazine: 11
Days since a colleague gave me this month’s issue:* 6
Issues of The New Yorker ahead of Harper’s in the ToT** magazine queue: 3
Times I have laughed out loud at this week’s New Yorker cover, by the amazing Roz Chast: at least 4
Boxes of stuff I brought from my cube to my temp office space: 1
Pairs of shoes: 2
Coat trees: 1
Hours of sleep I got last Sunday night: 5.5-ish***
Cups of coffee consumed per day on Monday and yesterday: 3 (plus 1 cup of tea on Monday)
Hours of sleep last night: 7.5-ish
Cups of coffee today: 2
Episodes of Battlestar Galactica watched in the past week: 3
Episodes remaining until we’re done with the season: 1
Days this month I’ve kept my writing pact with myself: 13****
This past week: 3
Summer Fridays I’ll be trying to devote to writing an article: 5
Summer Fridays I’ll be waiting in a long hot line for water slides and trying to avoid being hugged by Elmo at Sesame Place: 1
* She was finished with it, and we were prepping for moving day, which was today. The second floor of the library is being renovated over the summer so about half of us are temporarily displaced, split between 2 big rooms. It’s got kind of a college dorm feel. I’ll be hanging up my Joy Division and Cure posters tomorrow.
** Top of Toilet
*** Gus came in at 5:16am Monday, which is neither unusual nor typically a problem, except that he woke up the kittehs who then decided it was purr -n- playtime, bah.
**** I’m trying to write something most days recently (unless I’m crushingly tired), to prime the pump. Blag, journal, incoherent scholarly-ish ramblings: they all count. Keeping track on a calendar, because I’m a nerd like that.
2 comments on “wednesday’s index”
Yeah, we used to keep them on the coffee table, but now that is Gus’s project space and thus littered with drawings of whatever fiendish plan he’s currently hatching.
Sesame Place was not too evil! (It was hellishly hot, but that’s not Jim Henson’s fault.) There’s a ton of watery stuff — water slides, crazy spurting fountain pools, rafting river — so if your kids like water they will have a blast. 42″ is the height requirement to go alone on almost everything. Also there is a great enclosed climbing rope/net thing that is about 3 stories tall. Slide/ride lines can be long, so go early on a weekday if you can. And BYO food — everything in the park is insanely expensive.
Roz Chast rules! As does the abbrev. TOT.
We keep our unread mags (New York, Brain Child, Dwell, and Harper’s) in a pile in the family room that I occasionally notice.
Also, any feedback on Sesame Place would be welcome. A friend just went and claimed it was “not an evil theme park.” So I’m curious if you agree.