Monday morning miscness

[magid]

Traffic around Harvard this week is likely to be somewhat nutty, with Harvard's graduation Thursday (and other events starting Tuesday). The Yard is already changing, with a sea of thousands of folding chairs, a variety of tents, banners with a variety of coats of arms on them, and even a gazebo.
(Must remember to change my usual walk Thursday morning; the Yard will be closed off then.)

The tree chair around the corner from my house is now gone. Alas. I wonder if whoever made them is still making new ones?

The porch is getting closer to ready for summer. Yesterday I transplanted almost everything (including the huge lavender, which turned out to have been root bound). I think I want to grow some more flowers this year, and I still need to rearrange it all. I finally realized that I could put the bushier plants in front of the windows to keep the kitchen a little cooler (it only took what, a decade?). At some point I'll probably list what's growing, once I've gotten it in better shape. Oh, and though it sounds cool, I wasn't up for experimenting with growing tomatoes upside down. Maybe next year.

My lower back is sore. The only reason I can think of is schlepping bags of potting soil and compost up to the apartment, but even the compost was lighter than a bag of flour (40 lb), so I'm not sure that's it. I hope it normalizes soon.

Farm share starts next week! (I shall have to figure out what I want to do with Boston Organics then, switching to a smaller box, getting fruit, perhaps.)

My boss just told me there's a nice production of Love's Labour's Lost at Zero Arrow Street, Tuesday and Wednesday. I haven't seen that one yet...

It is much easier to use a mitt catching a ball in a plane, rather than in space.

The first photo I've had published is on the front page of the spring 2005 newsletter of the New England Hemophilia Association (available as a largish PDF), a portrait of the author (Nope, no official photo credit. But it's still pleasing.). Just for the record, her son was having a hard time that afternoon; it turned out he was starting a high fever while we were trying to get a nice photo. Better luck next time :-).

Comments

[prog.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the reminder; I will be sure to take some photos of the yard on Wednesday.

It struck me last year (the first summer I made walking through campus part of my daily commute) how... druidical it looked, all the different colleges' banners with their strange symbols hanging from the trees, like a great meeting of all these magical arboreal tribes takes place there.

[magid.livejournal.com]

Oh, is that what the banners were about? Interesting. I wonder how the specific coats of arms relate to the particular houses (and whether it's changed now that they've forced the houses to be more democratic).

magical arboreal tribes
And all I was thinking was that they didn't block the sight lines (though if there's a field of umbrellas, they will). I feel so prosaic...

[queue.livejournal.com]

Nice photo :-)

(I don't have time to read the article at the moment, but I did notice a comma error in the first sentence. Does the newsletter have a copyeditor?)

[magid.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

Yeah, I noticed the comma issue, too. And there's another one later, as well. I left her a message offering to copyedit, if the newsletter doesn't have someone doing that.
OK, and it's obviously their style to hyphenate words, but there's a lot of it, which I find makes it harder to read.

[hyounpark.livejournal.com]

Lower back pain and soreness rarely has to do with the weight of what you're carrying as much as the posture you use. You could be moving carrots or Koosh balls, but if you're using your back muscles, your own body weight will make you sore. I've done this enough times that I'm a stickler for good posture now when I pick up anything.

Or you could have just slept on it funny.

Hypothesizingly,
Hyoun

[magid.livejournal.com]

Well, when it's a heavy bag without handles but long enough to sling over the shoulder, that's what I tend to do. It's too heavy to hold in a less lopsided way (like holding in front of me). Not at all ideal, but I've done it before, with 50-lb bags, and not had a problem. Maybe it's a hint I need to get to the gym more...