May 31, 2008 at 9:54 pm (Smith)
I just want to tout this shop here. I stopped by today for a gift for Addington (my soon-to-be goddaughter), and got in a conversation with the store’s owner, explaining that Addington’s mother and I went to Smith. She told me that her best friend went to Smith and that she went to Hampshire (she graduated a year after I did). Her friend was someone I knew, in fact, Allison Wenger, and she died of cancer in 2005. The store was named after Allison.
So, go! Support this lovely store and wonderful community resource.
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May 17, 2008 at 6:17 pm (politics)
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May 17, 2008 at 4:54 pm (food, work)
you HAVE to try it. Even just smell it.
My friend Alex got it at Whole Foods at Columbus Circle in NYC and I couldn’t stop smelling it. How hilarious is it that I live two blocks from Whole Foods here but have to go all the way back to NYC to discover this tea?
Anyway, I was in NYC this week for Paul’s performance at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, which was called “What’s Love Got to Do With It?” It was about the viola d’amore. Of course, Paul totally doesn’t get the Tina Turner reference at all (a colleague of his came up with it). I was pretty much in and out, though, so didn’t get to visit anyone (plus it was hormonal time for me and we all know how sick I can get–I wasn’t feeling terribly well). But I DO have to say for my friend in Philly and NYC that they should check out the Bolt Bus for future trips between cities.
I was busy applying for retail jobs for the summer because I lose so much of my income over the summer, what with church not having the full choir for the summer and the library not being open on Sundays when I can work for extra money. I had an interview at Ann Taylor and was getting applications in everywhere, when I talked to my new coworker who suggested that I babysit instead. I think that’s what I’m going to do. Plus, I really need some down time. It would be nice to have some flexibility with making extra dough and not have to be somewhere every Saturday on my feet (especially since I’m still recovering from a broken ankle). However, I just got REJECTED from Ann Taylor. Of course I’m wondering if I’m not pretty enough or young enough or something, although the woman who interviewed me was in her 50s. Oh, well! (I would spend ALL my money on clothes anyway so it probably wouldn’t help things to work there!)
In other news, I am attending RBS this summer for a course on Books in the Manuscript Era, and I am also trying to go for a second session in October at the Morgan Library on medieval mss. I am putting together an exhibit on medieval music in February so it would BEHOOVE me to take as many courses as they’ll pay for on the subject beforehand. We’ll see.
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May 11, 2008 at 6:13 pm (music)
I finally bought The Best of OMD. I LOVE this album. OK, maybe you pop/rock/alternative/whatever people might think it’s silly. (Although I wouldn’t be certain of that: I would think people who like Erasure or New Order would like them fine.)
I listened to this album over and over when I was in ninth grade and off and on through high school. I think my friend Kira copied it from her sister’s CD. Then that copy tape wore out when I was in England one summer, and I bought a cassette of it there (cassettes and CDs were really expensive in England in the early ’90s). Of course now that is pretty fried. I don’t think I tried to listen to it in awhile.
And then three weeks ago I was getting my hair cut and they were playing ALL this random ’80s stuff that didn’t necessarily get radio play back then. They played So In Love and I decided that was it: I had to buy it off half.com or something.
The Best Of album must have come out around ‘89 or something. I distinctly remember when If You Leave was popular because the radio stations played it ad nauseum (it was the song from Pretty in Pink), and that same school year (‘85-’86) Forever Live and Die was popular. I loved that song. I was so excited in the music library last year because there was this random 45 of Forever Live and Die in one of the drawers behind the reference desk.
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