Month: May 2012

Random 10 5-4-12

Last week, this happened. This week, it’s anybody’s guess:

  1. “Lazy Bones” by Jeremy Messersmith
    He sleeps like he’s got something to prove
  2. “Leaving on a Jet Plane” by Peter, Paul & Mary, guessed by Occupant
    I tell you now they don’t mean a thing
  3. “The Beat” by Elvis Costello
    But I’m no good with machinery
  4. “City of Dreams” by Talking Heads, guessed by Betty
    Remember this, our favorite town
  5. “A Gallon of Gas” by the Kinks, guessed by Kim
    There’s no more oil left in the well
  6. “Cornflake Girl” by Tori Amos, guessed by Thud
    She’s putting on her string bean love
  7. “I Feel Better Than James Brown” by Was Not Was
    One year later I was transferred to the moon
  8. “Champaign, Illinois” by Old 97’s
    The bottom line’s been snorted
  9. “Feed” by Skunk Anansie
    I want the power without the grace
  10. “Dealbreaker” by Rachael Yamagata
    I found that record you’d been looking for yesterday

Good luck!

Thursday

I don’t know that that picture really says it all about today, but I also doubt there’s much else to say about it. It was a Thursday. No travel except to the office, nothing much about that to report. Lot of looking for reviewers, sending out e-mails to authors, that kind of thing.

Meanwhile, the house phone is still down, despite the tech leaving a note on the door yesterday claiming it would be back up that night. Last I could learn from Verizon, another tech was scheduled to come out on Saturday, which I think brings it to a full two weeks that our phone service has been out. That Verizon makes a habit of this kind of behavior, in no small part to encourage customers to move to FIOS rather than repair the existing lines, doesn’t make it any better. Whoever is at the other end of their Twitter account was friendly enough, initiating contact and then actually responding to my complaint. But he/she also couldn’t tell me anything more than what I could find out via Verizon’s not terribly helpful website.

Hopefully by Saturday. Fingers crossed.

Campus calling

I won’t pretend I loved waking up around 5:30 this morning, in order to drive to Mineola, in order to catch an earlier train into Manhattan, in order to take a train from Manhattan to Connecticut, in order to spend the entire day walking around the campus of Western Connecticut State. But, all in all, it was actually a good and productive trip for me. My boss and I met with one of my authors, met with the staff of the campus bookstore, met with another psychology professor, and then finally with a professor in communications. Not a hugely busy agenda, but my main goal was meeting with the author and discussing the development on his book. And, by that measurement, the day was a big success.

I am, of course, quite tired, after the day on campus and the long train rides back and forth. And all I want to know is: why isn’t it the weekend again yet?