Not being at NCA this year is a little weird, if only because last year I had such fun with nca's queens. So what is a girl to do with herself at the onset of a week-long break during which she usually has two trips, but during which this year she has no trips?
Well, here's what I've done so far. First some decidin'. Then some mom-in-law hosting, including a tasty dinner at Luna (though Luna REALLY needs to lose the headache-inducing jazz). Then some much needed sleeping. Then some organizing of recipes and some digitizing of music. I have also been on something of a Sophocles bender that is kinda, sorta related to a writing project I'm hoping to revive, let's say, Tuesday. And I have mightily begun my quest to replicate the vegan cornbread at my favorite campus restaurant, The Red Herring. (Oh, and you locals, please help save them.) Then some co-planning for T-giving, and relatedly, some food shopping.
I also (with JM) watched the charming and light-hearted Be Kind, Rewind, starring Jack Black and Mos Def. This morning I read the ENTIRE paper, and was intrigued, first by this whole "slow blogging" business, and then by the prospect of conjuring woolly mammoths from dna culled from a woolly mammoth hair ball. These two stories, and for that matter, the movie too, seem to me to be philosophically related in a technology-goes-around-the-bend-retro kind of way.
Even though--or perhaps because--I'm not traveling this week, I have this scene stuck in my head. It is also sweetly retro, and I wish it were at least another minute longer:
