V. M. Smith

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allons-what:

Tumblr has opened my eyes to the fact that there are thousands of people like me who might enjoy their favorite shows just a little too much. Shine on, you crazy diamonds.

Tumblr has opened my eyes to the fact that there are thousands of people like me who might enjoy their favorite shows just a little too much. Shine on, you crazy diamonds.

19:40

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Sappho of Lesbos. Roman fresco from Regio VI (insula occidentalis) in Pompeii.

Museo Archeologico Nazionale (Naples)

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Tags: kkd hot now get in my belly heart attack with a hole in the middle

It’s been years since I had a KKD. I used to work downtown near a KKD location where they made them. Sometimes I would stop in the morning and pick up a dozen or two to take into work. The “Hot Now” sign was always on in the morning.

The Winston-Salem, NC based company IPO’d to much fanfare during the dot-com bubble. Not long after that KKD nearly went out of business due to malfeasance and shenanigans on the part of it’s management.

Damn they look good.

(Source: andrewbreitel)

18:23

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Wind partially lifting a parked 747 off the ground.

22:28 28th May 2012

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justingoble:

Having coffee!

Today is Memorial Day in the USA. We honor the graves and the memories of all men and women who have died, in military service to our country.

19:48

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mrsramseysshawl:

Richard Ziegler (1891–1992), Die Polizei, 1929 [detail] Pforzheim

18:21

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disturbthebookmites:

Sonja, Christian Schad, 1929.

08:23

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Edmund Dulac, The Princess and the Pea

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Tags: public speaking sprained ankle the romance of travel memorial day weekend WW II Glee

Presentation

I’m in a funk. I have to give a talk in NYC this Friday. It’s actually in Jersey City but if anyone asks I will probably say NYC. It sounds much better, and anyway, I think I’ll be able to see the NYC skyline from where I will be :-)

There will be 80+ people there. I will be out of my element. I don’t present to people very often and I’ve never had to stand up in front of this many people before. Someone asked me to give this talk and although I knew I would be out of my comfort zone I realized it would be good for me to do. I decided that being nervous about it was not a valid reason to say no.

Injury to insult.

A couple of weeks ago I rolled by ankle while taking a walk with my partner. My right foot came down and almost missed the sidewalk, but just caught the edge. As it happened there was a depression in the earth there so I rolled my ankle, badly. As I stumbled, almost toppling over completely, I heard something pop. I was able to make it back home without assistance. It began to swell.

I hobbled around on it for a couple of days and then decided it was not going to recover as long as I was trying to use it, so I retrieved a set of crutches from a closet and used them for a week. I also took Ibuprofen, which is an amazing substance though it can hurt my stomach sometimes. I don’t like to take it but it’s kind of unavoidable, so I try to always take it with food.

Anyway, it’s much better but day before yesterday I felt like it was swelling and hurting more, so I started staying off of it more. It’s been very unfortunate because the past few weeks the weather has been amazing. I can’t remember a nicer spring. I normally do cooking and grilling out and usually do the driving when we go somewhere, so this is a big inconvenience. He’s taking care of me but I really prefer my driving to riding with him. And I know he does not like driving. Fortunately I work from home, so that’s one problem I don’t have to deal with. I literally worked from bed the first week :-)

Thursday I’ll be a nervous wreck thinking about the presentation I have to give the next morning as I limp my way through the security line in the airport.

We watched the first few episodes of Glee season 3 on Hulu Plus and almost half way through a WWII in HD documentary on Netflix. I guess the WWII documentary is appropriate for Memorial day weekend. It is interesting.