Today was an awful lot like yesterday. No sales meeting in the morning but otherwise largely identical. Even the image at the top of this post is from yesterday.
The one good thing? One day closer to Friday.
Month: July 2010
Song of the day
The thing I love about this song, “The Quiz” by Hello Saferide, is how quickly it jumps from silly romantic insecurities — “Do you talk in the middle of Seinfeld? Do you read more than two books a month?” — to the really poignant and important question that underlies all those other questions: “And if I’d fall, would you pick me up?”
Thursday various
- I’ve always thought that competitive eating contests were, at best, disgusting and dumb, and, at worst, encouragers of some really awful and unhealthy behavior. Turns out, it’s much worse than I ever imagined. [via]
- Who could have guessed that an H.G. Wells story contest that banned science fiction and required manuscripts be handwritten would get no entries?
- The Searcher has been on something of a zombie kick recently: Zombie Journal: Of Conscience and Appetites and The Tragedy of Zombie Clown.
- Inside the digital preservation process at the Library of Congress. [via]
- And finally, the Real People Behind Famous Fictional Characters. [via]
Wednesday
Except for the morning sales meeting that I didn’t know about until less than a minute beforehand, when my boss walked by my cubicle and suggested hey, maybe I could chime in on some of the supplemental materials I’ve been working on — you know, for the morning sales meeting? — today was a pretty ordinary day. And, in fact, there wasn’t a lot for me to chime in on anyway; most everything was covered in the slides the acquiring editors were presenting to our sales rep in Kentucky.
Which is about the limit to my Wednesday excitement.
Song of the day
How about a little change of pace? This marks one whole month of these “Song of the Day” posts, so why not “Movin’ Right Along” by that great duo, Kermit the Frog and Fozzie Bear?