Category: Personal

We’re off to NYC this afternoon to celebrate Passover with the families, so blogging will be light until Tuesday. In honor of the trip, and because Kevin Drum is catblogging Rome, here’s a nameless kitty from the Palatine Hill in Rome:

Ciao!

It was a year ago this week that Scott and I were in Rome. Even though we’re Jewish, I’m more than a little envious of my sister, who’s currently living in Rome. She gets a more or less front-row seat for all the Papal festivities.

It’s fascinating to watch one of the world’s oldest and largest institutions change hands. She’ll probably find it more of an inconvenience than anything else (stores closing, streets being shut down, even larger than normal throngs of tourists, etc) but we’ll see.

Sorry for the lack of new posts. I have a midterm Tuesday and another one Wednesday.

Been listening to a lot of random plays this week. Here’s the current Next 10:

Letter Song – The Secret Garden
American Tune – Simon & Garfunkel, The Concert in Central Park
Pastoral Symphony – George Frideric Handel, Messiah
Love Me Tender – Amy Grant
Pump up the Jam – Technotronic
The Lion Sleeps Tonight – They Might Be Giants
Philadelphia Freedom – Elton John
Book Of Days – Enya
Fate & Finale, Act I – Kismet
Koyaanisqatsi – Philip Glass

One of the benefits to growing up in New York City — I was actually at the above-mentioned concert in Central Park, with a bunch of friends from high school. We ate fried chicken and generally had a great time. My biggest regret was that I didn’t have $15 on me to buy a concert t-shirt; for years afterward I stared with envy at the friend who did get the t-shirt every time he wore it.

Another weekend day, another early morning shift. I came home around noon to a beautiful surprise — Spring has snuck into San Francisco when I wasn’t looking. It’s sunny, there’s a hint of warmth in the air, the tang of the sea is noticable, and the fog hasn’t set in — a perfect day. I got off MUNI a few blocks before my stop, it was such nice walking weather, and enjoyed it all. Living all the way out by the beach is often inconvenient, but today is the kind of day that makes it worthwhile.

I showered off the smell of coffee when I got home and sat down to realize that I either need to trim my blogroll or be more consistant about reading it, because the pileup of posts waiting for me on Bloglines is way too much to work through. It makes me feel frustrated; there’s so many good bloggers out there, with so much to say, and I’m too tired to keep up with it all, much less try to find something interesting, original, and throughtful to say here on my own blog.

There’s a lot of terrible things going on in the world. I know I ought to be saying and/or doing more about some of them. But today, I just want to enjoy the spring air and spend some quality time with Scott and the kitties.

Got a jury duty summons today. And oh how convenient — it’s scheduled to start the Monday of my Spring Break. So much for either resting up and/or working some extra shifts that week.