{"id":174,"date":"2008-06-07T09:59:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-07T14:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/2008\/06\/in-which-i-write-a-lot-about-nothing-much-at-all.html"},"modified":"2008-06-07T09:59:00","modified_gmt":"2008-06-07T14:59:00","slug":"in-which-i-write-a-lot-about-nothing-much-at-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/2008\/06\/in-which-i-write-a-lot-about-nothing-much-at-all.html","title":{"rendered":"In Which I Write A Lot About Nothing Much At All"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have nothing and too much to say. It&#8217;s not that things haven&#8217;t been happening. They have. And it&#8217;s not that some of those things haven&#8217;t been interesting. They have. Some things have even been amusing, which are my favorite kinds of things to write about. And yet I haven&#8217;t written. And really, this isn&#8217;t my diary and never has been (not that I&#8217;ve written in my diary in recent memory&#8230; make that nearly 3 years&#8230; hmmmm), so I guess nobody should feel surprised. But for the sake of my own memory, here&#8217;s a run-down for you in mostly chronological order:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>My sister visited for most of May. Good times. We consumed many &#8220;sustaining drumsticks&#8221; (of the ice cream variety).<\/li>\n<li>My cousin got badly burned.<\/li>\n<li>The conference that I&#8217;ve been working on finally happened, and a whole bunch of real live people attended it, and most of them loved it. Though I must say, I&#8217;m really bad at being on a conference-organizing committee. I don&#8217;t feel like I did nearly as much as everybody else. I felt like a hanger-on more than anything else.<\/li>\n<li>My place of work received a major award. There was much hoopla, pomp, and even some circumstance. And we&#8217;re all very proud of it all.<\/li>\n<li>My mom visited and did two things that really only a mom can do well: deep-cleaned my stove (along with many other things in the apartment), and got me relaxed and restored and feeling more human than I&#8217;ve felt in a long while.<\/li>\n<li>The choir at church sang a complex, <em>a capella<\/em>, 4-part harmony piece as the choir-year&#8217;s grand finale, and they executed it brilliantly.<\/li>\n<li>The bell choir finished with a sputter. Due to constantly changing membership and absenteeism, we&#8217;d only managed to work up to a 20-minute &#8220;concert&#8221; which we performed in front of 4 audience members. The day of the concert was the first day we&#8217;d ever had the full membership there, and the first day that I could direct rather than play 2-3 people&#8217;s bells. Luckily, the bell choir members seemed proud of their achievement.<\/li>\n<li>My department at work increased by one new co-worker. Woohoo!<\/li>\n<li>My cousin started doing a little better, though he&#8217;s still in intensive care.<\/li>\n<li>We got word that the book that will include a section by myself and my brilliant co-worker will finally be published next month (only a year past it&#8217;s original due date).<\/li>\n<li>Wave after wave of storms pummeled the area, and P and I even spent one night at a co-worker&#8217;s house this week so as to be nearer a basement in case of tornadoes.<\/li>\n<li>I got invited to present at a major conference, and accepted. Let the nervousness begin!<\/li>\n<li>A bunch of us went to the art gallery opening where a co-worker&#8217;s art was the primary attraction. We then went out for sushi afterwards.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So, yeah&#8230; cats don&#8217;t like being scooped up and taken to a friend&#8217;s house in the middle of severe weather. Pippin yowled the entire night, hissed at my co-worker&#8217;s cat from under the door that separated them, stepped on my face and yelled in my ear whenever I looked like I might doze off, and generally did everything in his power to let us know that he was seriously displeased with every aspect of his current situation&#8230;. all night. I&#8217;ve never seen a temper tantrum quite to that scale before. I&#8217;ve also never been reduced to 3 non-consecutive hours of sleep because of a cat before. Needless to say, he is not on my A list at the moment.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s probably quite enough for now. I should probably feed all an sundry under my care (even if the cat doesn&#8217;t deserve it) and then spend some quality time with a book and a late-morning cup of coffee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have nothing and too much to say. It&#8217;s not that things haven&#8217;t been happening. They have. And it&#8217;s not that some of those things haven&#8217;t been interesting. They have. Some things have even been amusing, which are my favorite kinds of things to write about. And yet I haven&#8217;t written. And really, this isn&#8217;t &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/2008\/06\/in-which-i-write-a-lot-about-nothing-much-at-all.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">In Which I Write A Lot About Nothing Much At All<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-me-and-my-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}