Still alive, still here, just haven’t been very talkative. Quick weekend recap, though:
Saturday was a jaunt to the University District Street Fair for a few hours. Quite enjoyable, with a couple very entertaining shows by street performers, two of which are fairly well documented in this photoset from the day.
On the way to the fair I spent some time wandering through Westlake Plaza, tracking down all of the various plaques that make up the Westlake Kids Walk public art project. I’d been walking over them for a few years, now, and it was kind of fun to actually see if I could find them all. I think I did…
Sunday was spent at home, cleaning up the apartment a little bit. As I’d spent much of the past month battling a cold, over-stressed from long days at work, or both, things around here had fallen into a pretty sad state. It’s by no means spic-and-span now, but at least I won’t be completely embarrassed should someone show up — as, if all works out well, my mom will be on Wednesday! She’s in the midst of a trip to see friends down here in the states and has about a twelve hour layover here in Seattle, so she should be taking advantage of my proximity to downtown and the bus lines to rest for a few hours during the latter half of the work day, and then we’ll have some time to visit in the evening before she has to return to the airport. Yay!
Rick stopped by for a few hours yesterday also, and ended up leaving with the first two Harry Potter books. He’s not read them yet, and has finally had enough people tell him that he should that he’d decided it was time. He mentioned this and that he was planning on buying them “at some point” — I decided that this wasn’t good enough, and handed him my copies of the first two to borrow to get him started.
Other than that, not much to report. I really do intend to write a bit more about Star Wars Episode III (though it’s rapidly becoming more of a moot point as more and more people see it for themselves), and I’m sadly behind on sending stuff to Seattlest. My one-to-two posts a week completely disappeared last week, and I need to get back into gear on that — last week, I was a few days behind on my daily reading, and every time I saw something that I thought would make a good post, someone else more on-the-ball than I had beat me to it. I’ve got one post that I’m stalled on, too…last week just wasn’t my best for actually prying anything out of my brain.
Hopefully that’s over with, though. At the very least, there’s some nice bright sunshine outside of my window, it looks to be a good day (I hope work doesn’t muck that up too much), and I finally managed to catch up with my reading last night. If all goes well, I’ll be back on the ball this week.
And with that, the day begins…
“Bitter End” by Sister Machine Gun from the album Metropolis (1997, 5:20).
What an incredibly gorgeous day today was. Blue skies with light, wispy clouds high in the sky, with temperatures pushing up into the mid-80’s. As soon as I got off from work I made a quick swing through home to drop off my bag, then spent the next two hours wandering around, people watching and taking photos.
