the world is your acorn

I just discovered that I can use my ID card that has cash credits associated with it to buy sodas in the vending machine downstairs. This can only lead to irresponsible behavior, I’m sure of it.

I just discovered Afloat recently, although lifehacker blogged it in November. What I like most about it is the ability to keep windows on top. Sometimes I read pdfs or websites and want to take notes in another app, but I want to keep the text visible and my own notes underneath. Afloat also allows you to change the transparency of the window, and some other neat stuff. It only works with certain programs, but it’s perfect for Preview, Quicktime, and Safari (not Firefox, unfortunately). I’m sure it’s good for other uses, but this is just what I’ve been looking for to help me with research for school.

Today is the first day of the new semester, although I don’t have class until tomorrow, so I’m really just on borrowed time here. I’d like to do something last day of vacation-ish, but I’m out of ideas. I’ve already spent too much money on a new hard drive, so shopping is out of the question. I have some pleasure reading that I could get into, but I don’t want to start something that I won’t be able to finish once everything gets crazy. I’d take Oliver for a nice long walk, but he’s out getting his hairs cut. Even dogsitting is over. So I guess today will be like any other, making lists of chores that I may or may not do, checking my rss feeds, and fiddling with new productivity software. Still not a terrible way to spend the day, I think.

The Little Red Haired Girl just fed our doggie guest his own eye boogers. Oh. Sorry. She claims she did not really feed them to him. She just picked them out, and he licked her fingers “like it was a natural thing.” Then she made me Google “Why do poodles eat their own eye boogers?” Now she is giggling her little brains out. Guess who’s hammered?

Go see Hamlet:

Samuel Taylor Coleridge once said,
“I have a smack of Hamlet myself, if I may say so.”

An eight member ensemble tests this insight
by embracing its inner Prince of Denmark with
Valhalla Shakespeare and Green Room Projects’ original collaboration of
William Shakespeare’s HAMLET
directed by Mark Cabus.

Featuring Brandon Boyd, Richard Northcutt, Wesley Paine, Robert Marigza,
Claire Syler, Phil Perry-Dixon, Kyle Williams, and Mark Cabus

The performances are January 11, 12, and 13 (Thursday, Friday, and Saturday),
at 7:30 PM in the University School of Nashville auditorium,
2000 Edgehill Avenue .
Tickets are $15 for Adults and $10 for Students.

Call 615-904-5335 for more information.

Please join us! Maybe you’ll find a “smack of Hamlet” in you too!

We are dogsitting for a professor for the next week. It is really bizarre having someone else’s animal in your house. Especially when the animal is about 3 times the size of your existing pet. I took them both on a walk this afternoon at the park, and found myself constantly tangled up in their leashes. Generally they wanted to go in opposite directions, but occasionally our guest would want to sniff at whatever Oliver had just sniffed at. That would be fine if Oliver didn’t usually pee after sniffing. I had to do a lot of yanking and maneuvering to keep our guest from getting his head peed on. Or pooed on, in one nearly disastrous instance.

The Little Red Haired Girl promises to join me on those two-dog walks from now on.

Yesterday I got out of bed at 1pm. Then I watched Ninja Warrior for the rest of the afternoon. Back to bed by 9:30. Today The Little Red Haired Girl and I have big plans to use up my Borders gift card and maybe sit around some more. This vacation has been positively luxurious for me. Well, except for the family visit part. Anyway, today is our last day of sloth. Tomorrow The Little Red Haired Girl goes back to work, and I have to work on a presentation proposal for a graduate research council. For now though, the world is our acorn.