As I was walking home from work today two men talking said “Hi”, I responded in kind, and one said “Enjoying the weather?” and I said yes, and that I had just gotten off the phone with my parents who are in Denver (which was true). We then started talking and it became a very nice concversation. they both have lived in DC, around my neighborhood, for some time, and the talked some about how the neeighborhood has chnanged, the benfits of owning one’s home over renting, and the beauty of driving less. It was a very nice conversation, at the end of which one of them gave me a ride home, and the other invited me to have food at his home.
Israel is the only other place I have lived where people will invite strangers off of the street to share a meal with them. I have heard that it happens in Europe as well, but my experience with Europe is fairly limited. It was a very nice interaction, and it started my weekend out on a pleasant note.
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Originally uploaded by Rachel Ariel.
The last couple of days have felt frenetic to me. It seems like there is not enough time to do all of the things that I want to do and the things that I need to do. On my own time, the want things win out over the need things almost all of the time. Which means that there has been very littel studying.
Some things that I have been playing with in this last week of the year:
del.icio.us
digg.com
Note the new sidebar items. I’m still learning about both of these, so for the time being they seem to have a fair bit of overlap (but then again, so do all the sites I linked to in my last post, so perhaps there’s just a degree of overlap in my life right now).
The above three links are very similar, but are different in important ways. Explore… they are all fun. I would also mention Art of the mix because it is neat, but I don’t think it’s being maintained and is pretty basic. But the discussions can be pretty cool.
I was sad last year when the world lost Telegraphs as a mode of communication. Are we really on the verge of losing Morse Code? I think that perhaps simply because it is no longer a required skill does not necessitate that it will disappear forever (don’t people still learn Sanskrit?) There will always be people like me who love the old, obscure things.
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Originally uploaded by Rachel Ariel.
Truly, what good is an art show if you’re not going to take someone down in the process?
These are the things that I do, rather than study for the GRE, a weekend and one weeknight condensed into succinct bullet points:
1. Clean my room. As in moving the bed and mopping.
2. Freak out about how I am going to pay for graduate school.
3. Watch 13 episods of Prison Break courtesy of itunes (for the record, it really sucks that you can’t watch Fox, NBC or CBS shows on their website if you use a Mac. Long live ABC!!), because thinking about grad school makes me panic and we all know that television is the opiate of the masses.
4. Design a tee shirt for the Threadless Decemberists <3 Threadless contest.
5. Realize that though my drawing skills have improved dramatically over the last year, my photoshop skills have not.
6. Wonder why my printer has decided to freak out.
7. Attempt to reinstall said printer (in the hopes that I can simply scan my fabulous tee shirt design into Photoshop and submit it)
8. Give up and watch 24
9. Look at the clock and realize it’s 10:30 and I have done no studying. Contemplate taking out the Kaplan book.
10. Fish the cat toys out from under the dresser and throw them for the cats.
11. Blog about how little studying I did tonight.
