Friday, September 06, 2002

 
Today is the 24th anniversary of the first time I saw Bruce live-- the Uptown Theater in Chicago. The 6th row (thanks to Wayne and Bob W). A momentous turning point in my life, if there ever was one. I believe that my life was saved by rock & roll in general and Bruce Springsteen in particular, and the saving of it (which began when I heard "Badlands" on Radio Luxemburg while in Reykjavik that summer) really took place that night, when I heard a shout from a darkened stage: "Well have ya heard the news..."
posted by Suzy 1:41 PM

Thursday, September 05, 2002

 
Blogspot seems to be down. I can get to the blogger site to do editing, but can't tell if the additions/changes are being published. Especially annoying because I found a few errors i wanted to correct, and some writing I wanted to sharpen, having just read an article of the deplorable state of blog writing. Somehow I can't really read what I write until it's published.
posted by Suzy 7:09 PM

Wednesday, September 04, 2002

 
DAMN! I screwed up the timing on the sabbatical proposal. I thought I had til September 30. Then I thought it was Aug 31, and dashed around today pulling the application together. WRONGO on both counts. It was due JULY 31. Oh well, at least it's ready to submit 11 months in advance... maybe by that time I'll have dug up some funding for it and can take a 2 semester one and still have full pay. That would be ideal.

Got a wonderful review of the San Jose concert from Wayne. Looking forward to November in Orlando and Tampa more than ever. Linda has decided she can't go, so Chris will take her ticket for Tampa and Lee will invite an Orlando architect to the other show. I'm going to tell DM I don't need his intervention after all.

I finished Adri's second book, Big Cherry Holler. It affected me just like the first one. At first I thought, nice, interesting characters, good ear for dialog, eye for detail... then about half way through it completely grabbed me and I could not put the thing down-- up til 4:00 AM with it. Very enjoyable. My only quibble is that sometimes she over-explains things. It's as if she wants to be sure that even the dullest of Big Stone Gap's residents can follow every detail. The third one is just out. I will pick it up the next time I'm in B&N.

Next up is Years of Rice and Salt. It's gotten very good reviews and has a fascinating premise: the black plague was as deadly as the one in The Stand, knocking Europe off the world cultural stage. I was going to wait til it came out in paperback, but then I found it in a stack on our coffee table... Bill had bought it for himself. I also discovered a hardback of Gaiman and Pratchett's Good Omens, which I'd bought in paperback, on a bookshelf in the bedroom! Librarian, catalog thine own collection!

Showtime is rerunning the early episodes of Odyssey 5. Clever Tivo knows which ones he's recorded for me in the past so is only doing the ones I haven't seen. So cool. The pilot was some of the best televised sci fi I've ever seen-- splendidly believable zero g stuff in a space shuttle for nearly an hour, very exciting, great special effects too. And it certainly makes the eps I've seen since make a lot more sense.
posted by Suzy 9:20 PM