“Having a Party” by Sam Cooke
Month: April 2011
Earth daze
I’m not entirely convinced that today was Friday. Or maybe it was multiple Fridays, all stacked up on top of each other. It was a slow day, whatever it was.
In the lobby of our office building yesterday morning, they were handing out small flower pots, complete with wildflower seeds, in celebration of Earth Day. Which, for some reason, they seemed convinced — to the point of having made up a sign to declare this — was April 21st. Earth Day is, in fact, today, April 22nd — but maybe they just assumed, and not wrongly, that there wouldn’t be enough people in the office on the Friday before Easter, and so they just decided to move things up a day early. I didn’t get a free pot myself, which was sort of disappointing; a guy was still setting them up when I arrived at the office yesterday morning, and by the time I went downstairs for lunch, he and his table were gone. But the whole thing lent today a slight air of confusion: if Earth Day was on a Friday, and the buildings owner was convinced yesterday was the day in question…well, you can see how today might not feel like a proper Friday.
But it’s Easter weekend, and it finally does feel properly like a Friday — albeit one very rapidly approaching its conclusion. I’m looking forward to a nice meal with the family, colored eggs and candy, the whole shebang.
No three- or four-day weekend for me, I’m afraid, but it should be a nice one nonetheless.
Song of the day
For no other reason than that it was the first — and, as of this writing, only — song guessed in this week’s Random Guess 10, here’s Taken By Trees’ cover of Guns N’ Roses’ “Sweet Child o’ Mine.”
Random 10 4-22-11
Last week. This week:
- “It’s Lonely at the Top” by Randy Newman
Listen to the band, they’re playing just for me - “Canada vs. America” by Broken Social Scene
I’m from the city of love - “The Beatles and the Stones” by the House of Love
Oh I’m dazed and I’m dazed and I’m dazed - “Sweet Child o’ Mine” by Taken by Trees (orig. Guns N’ Roses), guessed by Clayton
She takes me away to that special place - “Things Are What You Make Them” by Bishop Allen
They had taken up inside of my heart - “When My Time Comes” by Dawes
So I pointed my fingers, and shouted a few quotes I knew - “Dear God” by XTC
Your name is on a lot of quotes in this book - “Old Mountain Line” by Po’ Girl
I can hear the wheels turning - “Poison Moon” by Mary Timony
We have love just the same as all of you do - “Nowheres Nigh” by Parts and Labor
We don’t deny we’ve left our destiny behind
As always, good luck!
Must be a Thursday
What can you say about a Thursday that hasn’t already been said, and better, by people like Arthur Dent? Not a whole lot, as it happens.
We had a short meeting, an informal Q&A really, with our books and journals CEO, who was visiting the New York office. I can’t speak to the later meetings held later in the day, but our early-morning one was surprisingly informative and interesting, giving a nice overview of where we’ve been as a company and where we’re headed.
Right now, though, I’m just headed to bed.