even though I’m exhausted, funny things ARE all around me.
The heaviness and exhaustion of my previous post is true, and so are a couple other things, to wit:
* I swear to all that is holy and funny, you have to click this link and watch this video. I promise you’ll roll on the floor and have to hold your sides from the laughter. It’s always funny.
* And this isn’t funny, but one of those “awwww….” deals. One of my authors wrote a great little book. It’s a smashing success, and we enjoyed working together very much. We became friends, he calls me Sis. The other day, this arrived in my office, with a note I’ll cherish:
click to enlarge so you can see it better
It’s a print from the April 24, 1880 edition of Harper’s Weekly, drawn by Granville Perkins – “View in Riverside Park, New York.” Weeks before, he’d written me asking for my associations with Central Park. A weird question, I thought, but what the hell. I answered, and concluded with a comment that Riverside Park is my favorite, even more than Central Park, because it’s my backyard, I spend a lot of time there, I love it very much. Pretty sneaky of him.
And now, to knit.
Beautiful picture! I wish this book had been out when I was in grad school
On her own blog, Laura just wrote a post titled..Blocking and a block
ME TOO! That’s why I wanted to acquire it so badly – and especially now, with there being so few jobs in academia available. Where will all those PhDs go….especially sad, since they get no help from their academic advisors, who simply don’t know about the ‘real world.’ Everyone I mention it to ‘gets it’ immediately and wishes they’d had it. Thanks for the comment!