Little bitses and pieceses
Dec. 14th, 2005 02:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
magidYesterday was the first day of winter by one metric: my hair froze on the way to the T.
A couple of days ago, it was warm enough that ice was melting. I'm always happy when I can break off chunks of ice with my boots (though it's not as satisfying if ice melt is involved): my boots as breaking ice down to small pellets, as water turns pebbles into sand.
The enormous bells are up in the atrium at work, and as last year, they're creepy. Imagine over a dozen huge (foam?) bells, more than a story high, hung on red 'velvet ribbons' from the arched skylight five stories up. They move sometimes when the air currents are brisk, and I keep hoping that they're securely fastened. Then I think about some holiday-themed mystery (book or TV episode) with someone killed by a falling bell (a variant on "Saved by the Bell"?).
Sunday morning I was taken out (many thanks to the co-conspirators who surprised me so wonderfully) to a taping of Says You at the Fairmont Copley Plaza*, which was a huge amount of fun. We got to hear two shows, the first of which will be broadcast sometime this winter, while the second will be this Saturday night (locally on WGBH, at 8 and 8:30 P.M.), being the Xmas edition. I'm considering trying to tape the show, to hear what was left in and what got taken out, even though I didn't care as much for how that show went. It wasn't that it was Xmas, exactly, but when the questions are about classic holiday movies I've never seen, it's less riveting than something I know about (those were cute, though, using the descriptions by a 4-year-old). And I liked the two vocabulary words they used to play Dictionary: pingle and pungle :-). On the whole, the first show felt a lot funnier, with incredibly bad puns about winter gear (the bantered phrase "bipolar fleece" stuck with me), tricky political questions, and yet more Dictionary words (now forgotten; I should've written them down). And the music for both shows was by the Harvard Krokodiloes (yay, a cappella!), which the announcer had a hard time pronouncing :-).
* My first time in the building. It's got lots of mirrors, huge chandeliers, and gold trim, extremely upscale. I tried and failed to imagine Arisia there :-).
More good things: bringing excess plastic bags to where they'll be used, going to the gym (even if for only a short workout), finding the right person to take the surplus appointment calendar, catching up with an ex-coworker.
A couple of days ago, it was warm enough that ice was melting. I'm always happy when I can break off chunks of ice with my boots (though it's not as satisfying if ice melt is involved): my boots as breaking ice down to small pellets, as water turns pebbles into sand.
The enormous bells are up in the atrium at work, and as last year, they're creepy. Imagine over a dozen huge (foam?) bells, more than a story high, hung on red 'velvet ribbons' from the arched skylight five stories up. They move sometimes when the air currents are brisk, and I keep hoping that they're securely fastened. Then I think about some holiday-themed mystery (book or TV episode) with someone killed by a falling bell (a variant on "Saved by the Bell"?).
Sunday morning I was taken out (many thanks to the co-conspirators who surprised me so wonderfully) to a taping of Says You at the Fairmont Copley Plaza*, which was a huge amount of fun. We got to hear two shows, the first of which will be broadcast sometime this winter, while the second will be this Saturday night (locally on WGBH, at 8 and 8:30 P.M.), being the Xmas edition. I'm considering trying to tape the show, to hear what was left in and what got taken out, even though I didn't care as much for how that show went. It wasn't that it was Xmas, exactly, but when the questions are about classic holiday movies I've never seen, it's less riveting than something I know about (those were cute, though, using the descriptions by a 4-year-old). And I liked the two vocabulary words they used to play Dictionary: pingle and pungle :-). On the whole, the first show felt a lot funnier, with incredibly bad puns about winter gear (the bantered phrase "bipolar fleece" stuck with me), tricky political questions, and yet more Dictionary words (now forgotten; I should've written them down). And the music for both shows was by the Harvard Krokodiloes (yay, a cappella!), which the announcer had a hard time pronouncing :-).
* My first time in the building. It's got lots of mirrors, huge chandeliers, and gold trim, extremely upscale. I tried and failed to imagine Arisia there :-).
More good things: bringing excess plastic bags to where they'll be used, going to the gym (even if for only a short workout), finding the right person to take the surplus appointment calendar, catching up with an ex-coworker.