Month: January 2012

Friday the 13th

I spent the whole day — well, 10:30 to 4 — in a meeting with our sales reps talking about some of the new and important books for the season. There was a free lunch, but I’m a little wiped. I’ve spent the evening mostly watching the end of Aliens and doing a crossword puzzle. Dinner was from the local Azerbaijan grill restaurant, and the crossword was from the New York Times.

It’s a long weekend here, which is nice, although it’s turned quite cold again, which is less pleasant. It snowed for about five minutes this morning — blink and you might have missed it — but right now it’s just really windy.

Did I mention I was in a meeting all day long?

Random 10 1-13-12

Last week? Just two. This week? How many?

  1. “Radio Sweetheart” by Elvis Costello
    I can hardly wait around until the weekend comes to town
  2. “I Don’t Like Mondays” by the Boomtown Rats, guessed by Kim
    And nobody’s gonna go to school today
  3. “Sunny Afternoon” by Tom Jones (orig. the Kinks), guessed by Kim
    Well give me two good reasons why I oughta stay
  4. “Way Over Yonder in the Minor Key” by Billy Bragg & Wilco, guessed by Kim
    It stung lots worse than a hive of bees
  5. “What Do You Want From Me” by Pink Floyd
    If I don’t promise you the answers would you go
  6. “Paper Forest (in the Afterglow of Rapture)” by Emmy the Great
    So that the record does obscure the thing the record used to be
  7. “The Wind Cries Mary” by Cassandra Wilson (orig. Jimi Hendrix), guessed by Kim
    You can hear happiness staggering on down the street
  8. “E.T.I. (Extra Terrestrial Intelligence)” by Blue Öyster Cult, guessed by Clayton
    Three men in black said, “Don’t report this”
  9. “I Belong to the Band” by Mavis Staples
    Walk around Heaven and spread the news
  10. “Dark Eyes” by Calexico & Iron & Wine (orig. Bob Dylan)
    They tell me to be discreet for all intended purposes

Good luck!

Thursday

I’m not going to say that the research I talked about doing yesterday was all for naught, because it wasn’t, but a lot of it had already been done by marketing, unbeknownst to me, and it’s actually sort of difficult in just half a day to pull together any meaningful data on which schools and psychology or counseling departments offer psychopathology courses. (The answer to that question, if you’re wondering, is “all of them.” Plus a lot of social work, education, and educational psychology departments. It’s kind of an important course.)

And I’m not going to say that the weather was horribly nasty, because it wasn’t, at least not past the morning, and it was all rain instead of snow. We had a light dusting way back in October, but I’m really wondering if it’s going to snow again at all this winter. In years past, it’s been a question of how much, not if ever.

I’m just going to say this: I’m glad it’s a three-day weekend. Can you believe it’s been two whole weeks since I was last on vacation? Sheesh!