Month: July 2013

Wednesday

It feels like Friday. I know it’s not, but I also know I’m off for the next four days (and don’t return to the office for the next five). So I’m going to let the Friday feeling last for as long as it can.

Some big and unexpected news at work today notwithstanding, it was a pretty ordinary day and a pretty unexciting work week. In lieu of real content, I direct you again to Kaleidotrope, where you’ll find stories of magical cats, fairy tales, and the music that accompanies the end of the world. And I’ll share my musical mix for June, though it’s not much of one this month, I’m afraid:

  1. “Rose Tattoo” by Dropkick Murphys (feat. Bruce Springsteen)
  2. “M79” by Vampire Weekend
  3. “Man” by Neko Case
  4. “Better” by Cat and the Menagerie
  5. “I See Trouble” by Rich Hope

Is it really already July? How’d that happen, anyway?

Tuesday

I can’t really claim to be having the most productive of weeks. It seems like just about everything I need to do needs something else to be done first, frequently by someone other than me.

Then again, this is an exceptionally short work week for me. I worked from home yesterday, and today and tomorrow are the only two days I’ll be in the office this week at all. Thursday we’re closed for the 4th of July, and I’m taking the Friday after that off as well. We’re not even on summer hours this week, thanks to the holiday.

I did manage to finish putting up the newest issue of Kaleidotrope over the weekend. There’s a lot of great fiction and poetry this issue, and I had a great time writing the fake advice column. Check it out, won’t you?

Meanwhile, I finally got around to checking out the first episode of the Under the Dome miniseries, and I’ll just say what I said over Twitter: as an adaptation of the novel, it’s a complete (albeit curious) failure. Though it’s obviously not trying — at all — to be a faithful adaptation. So it has to be judged more for what it is. Which is a kind of okay, mostly, but not very remarkable TV series that shares the same starting point and some character names as the book. There’s a part of me that wants to continue watching it just because it’s like a strange parallel-universe version of the novel. Alas, there aren’t a lot of other parts of me that want to continue watching.