S. Worthen | WeblogS. Worthen | Weblog - LiveJournal.comHouse!- June 12, 2008 Thirteen weeks after making our initial offer, with most of the intervening time consisting of the housebuying process slowly working its way along, we now own our first house!http://owlfish.livejournal.com/843207.html Saints, and other days- June 11, 2008 Approximately a year ago, I visited double0hilly in Paris and took photos of windmill-related things there as part of the easterbunny 2007 LJ Collection Challenge. I have a new project this year, involving documenting things related to a particular saint. As I want to stand a chance at actually being able to do the challenge, I've gone with the most obvious saint-of-the-day for July 25th, St. James Apostle.View Poll: Saints, gods, and other eventsBonus factoids: - Ilyap'a kept his rainwater in.http://owlfish.livejournal.com/842658.html Baltic- June 8, 2008 Location: 74 Blackfriars Road, Southwark. London. Dark woods of the waiting area bar opened up into a large expanse of redone industrial in white alternating with bare brick, with high ceilings and cross-beams. Six of us, including haggisthesecond, naxos, aca, easterbunny, and C., settled down in a table surrounded by other tables, a lively restaurant on a Tuesday night. The hard walls bounced the sounds around enough to make it hard to talk from one end of the table to the other, although not.http://owlfish.livejournal.com/841603.html The week so far- June 6, 2008 It's been a rich, wonderful, tasty touristic week. Lunch with ladymoonray. A walk to see the telectroscope. Dinner at Baltic with easterbunny, aca, haggisthesecond, and naxos. Lunch with an antiquarian bookseller and pittenweem. Productive grading sessions. The striking Chapman Brothers exhibit at the White Cube gallery with fjm and chilperic. A mildly disappointing William Curley Dessert Bar trip (due to ill and thus absent chef). Tortellini with a rich variety of cheeses. A visit to the..http://owlfish.livejournal.com/841061.html Obscure waffles- June 4, 2008 I had thought that waffles were reasonably common in the UK, but their lack of appearance at brunches should have taught me better. As far as I can tell, it is not possible to buy a multi-purpose waffle-making device in this country. Either the small appliance makes waffles and nothing else, or else it only makes other things.http://owlfish.livejournal.com/840729.html Telectroscope- June 3, 2008 Today, I saw the Brooklyn Bridge. It was a lovely morning in New York City. The sun was out, and passersby wore t-shirts. Each of them in turn stopped to wave, to dance, to pantomime to those of us waving, dancing, and smiling at them from the overcast banks of the Thames. Behind them, in the distance, the bridge spanned the waters of the East River.What better way to celebrate the momumental achievement of a sub-Atlantic tunnel, dug over four generations, linking London to New York City, than.http://owlfish.livejournal.com/840667.html |