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1. When you sit down at a meeting and the person running it says, "Don't worry. They're *not* going to take away your funding," you worry anyway.
2. Those are not white eggs in the last two cups in the refrigerator egg holder. They are thawing mice,
3. I very nearly put "suicide" on my to-do list for Monday. No, work is fine, thanks. We are going to be involved in a suicide prevention program. I re-worded it.
4. I am wearing an elf hat with a bell.
5. Wow, tonight's trip home was a lot quicker. The roads were clear, even this morning.
6. If I time it "right" I get to have a sheriff's car follow me from Salem all the way to work (I work at the county municipal building, and that's where the guy in the sheriff's car is going.
7. A variety of events converged and made this a fairly stressful week. But the good news is that my coping skills are somewhat better and other than a short "down" period, I bounced back pretty well.
8. The snow is supposed to start late tomorrow night or Sunday morning and go into Monday morning. The forecast is 10 to 20 inches. I do not know if the Boston area is getting this one.
9. Time Magazine has done a display of its top 10 magazine covers of the year. No. 10 just blew me away:
#10. Esquire
January 2007
Why this one over all the other greats that were #'s 11 and beyond? Because it accomplishes what every great cover aspires to: deep and profound emotion, without cheap tricks. It tackles a subject that no one really wants to confront, and it does so with respect to the two primary parties involved: the subject and the reader. Other magazines have put amputee veterans of the Iraq War on their covers, but none had the kind of photography and art direction that elevate this one. The placement of soldier Bryan Anderson on the floor, wearing shorts, emphasizes his lost limbs while enabling him to look spiritually intact, even cool. He's saying: I have to deal with this, and so do you. He's missing two legs and an arm, but he's got his Purple Heart, his pride and his future intact. Some day Esquire may tire of its idiosyncratic treatment of cover headlines, and here they do detract a bit. But nothing can derail the power and honesty of the photo, and the emotional credibility they give to the magazine's presentation of a difficult story.
There are a number of othe rreally interesting lists there, too.
10. Question: "Locavore" or "Localvore?"
2. Those are not white eggs in the last two cups in the refrigerator egg holder. They are thawing mice,
3. I very nearly put "suicide" on my to-do list for Monday. No, work is fine, thanks. We are going to be involved in a suicide prevention program. I re-worded it.
4. I am wearing an elf hat with a bell.
5. Wow, tonight's trip home was a lot quicker. The roads were clear, even this morning.
6. If I time it "right" I get to have a sheriff's car follow me from Salem all the way to work (I work at the county municipal building, and that's where the guy in the sheriff's car is going.
7. A variety of events converged and made this a fairly stressful week. But the good news is that my coping skills are somewhat better and other than a short "down" period, I bounced back pretty well.
8. The snow is supposed to start late tomorrow night or Sunday morning and go into Monday morning. The forecast is 10 to 20 inches. I do not know if the Boston area is getting this one.
9. Time Magazine has done a display of its top 10 magazine covers of the year. No. 10 just blew me away:
#10. Esquire
January 2007
Why this one over all the other greats that were #'s 11 and beyond? Because it accomplishes what every great cover aspires to: deep and profound emotion, without cheap tricks. It tackles a subject that no one really wants to confront, and it does so with respect to the two primary parties involved: the subject and the reader. Other magazines have put amputee veterans of the Iraq War on their covers, but none had the kind of photography and art direction that elevate this one. The placement of soldier Bryan Anderson on the floor, wearing shorts, emphasizes his lost limbs while enabling him to look spiritually intact, even cool. He's saying: I have to deal with this, and so do you. He's missing two legs and an arm, but he's got his Purple Heart, his pride and his future intact. Some day Esquire may tire of its idiosyncratic treatment of cover headlines, and here they do detract a bit. But nothing can derail the power and honesty of the photo, and the emotional credibility they give to the magazine's presentation of a difficult story.
There are a number of othe rreally interesting lists there, too.
10. Question: "Locavore" or "Localvore?"
