Archive for the ‘mom’ tag
Not a twenty, I don’t think…
Mom just swung by the office, and while I know she’ll want to kill me for posting this view of her, I have to post this, my favorite of the pictures I just shot. But here’s the thing: I’m shocked at the difference in quality between the camera I just lost, and this the backup one. The ability to handle interior light conditions is vastly different. Now given, this current camera is about four or five years old. It’s just that I can really see the difference in lens quality between it and the Lumix.
I might have to start toting around my DSLR. I’m turning into one of those photographers I always used to crack wise about.
Over on The Onion’s AV Club, I see that Calvin and Hobbes creator Bill Watterson is giving a rare interview. I may have said this before here, but I don’t really care for that strip, which provokes passionate devotion among many of my friends. Some of it is beautifully drawn, but I just never thought that the writing was much more than a few stock situations reshuffled, and I was pretty much repulsed by Calvin, who struck me as a thug in training, unredeemed by his flights of fantasy. It’s Krazy Kat, where you’re mostly being asked to root for Ignatz. But then I always hated Dennis the Menace, too. Maybe I see Calvin as exemplary of the boys that used to frighten and make me nervous as a kid: boys who delighted in smashing stuff and running around. I suppose we are meant to see him as creative, and rebellious, but I just don’t get it.
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The big E’s inside of you and me…
I know it’s wrong to question good fortune, so I won’t. For some reason Amazon is giving away MP3s of just about all of Mojo Nixon’s music. Yep he could easily be classed an ’80’s one hit wonder, but there’s something great about all of his crackpot bitter rants that make this a very good deal. And he does a mean version of “Just stopped in to see what condition my condition was in” which is the soundtrack to “Gutter Balls”, the Dude’s Busby Berkeley inspired dream sequence in Big Lebowski.
I can see from all the comments it garnered that people are very concerned about fruit and its qualities, as explored in my post yesterday. I’m also shocked to learn that taking Lipitor means that you can’t eat grapefruit. That the same for all citrus?
My mom is strongly hinting that I’m supposed to pick up a new costume for Lehigh, since she will be staying with her for Halloween. And by strongly hinting I mean she sent me an email with a bunch of pictures of dogs in costumes with the question “what is her new outfit going to be?” She has also commanded me to blow up the drawing of of Lehigh I posted a while back , the one where I’m dancing all cute, but the only part of any interest to her is the drawing of the dog, so she can have that on her desktop at home. The priorities are clear.
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I’ve been filing…
…like someone who likes to file.
It took almost two months, but I’ve managed to get my work desk from this to the state you see above. And that doesn’t mean that I just shoved the stacks off camera, either: with some stellar assistance from someone here in the office, I’ve managed to break the files down into manageable bits and set up a system that I think will be much more useful to me over the next years.
And today, Mom dropped by the office with Rhubarb bread pudding that my sister made. How cool are they?
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Sunday in the park…
We celebrated Mother’s Day by taking a prolonged walk through Prospect Park; my Mom, my sister, Lehigh and myself. We followed it up with an early dinner at Whiskey Sundays. Which was so heavy that I left me nearly incapacitated for the rest of the day. Laundry did not happen.
The walk was quiet, thoughtful. It was not a hugely celebratory day, even though things seem to be going alright for my Mom. I had the chance to introduce her to a couple of the people in the neighborhood that, like her, are fans of the pooch. Lehigh was basking in attention. There’s no nearby dog run however, so while she met a few playful dogs, she did didn’t have the chance to race around like a maniac.
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Institutions…
Are often difficult to manage.
Recently I’ve been writing down some thoughts on organizations. After a little more work I think I’ll be posting them here.
It’s been interesting to see the ways that my current job has become institutionalized, and how we’ve had to learn how to deal with that perception in the minds of our students and peers.
In part of my attempts to take a longer view of my current situation I’m a little hungry for a bigger art project.
And just after I finished typing that, my Mom dropped by my office. Boy was I happy to see her! I think it marks how disconnected and isolated I’ve been in the past few weeks that I had a deep rush of emotion at just sitting down with her.
Tags: daily photo, mom, new york in black and white, organizations