Oct
16
2009
It’s 6:30 am. It’s 27 degrees and totally dark. A bard barred [I stand corrected] owl is hollering insistently from the woods above me, trying to convey some kind of message before his dawn bedtime. Looking at the weather forecast on my desktop I see an inscrutable icon: clouds with little white dots underneath. When [...]
Oct
09
2009
Just in: As of a few hours ago I know where I’ll be living from January to March. The bad news is that it’s not South Africa. The good news is that I like who I’m going with. The bad news is that it’s not South Africa. The good news is… well, pretty much everything [...]
Oct
08
2009
It poured (and even thundered!) last night and was still going strong when I got up at 8:00 so I had to scrap my plan to go see leaves. For a moment I saw a spot of sunlight burst through the grey window, but then realized it was only the reflection of the light bulb [...]