Jul. 13th, 2006

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I did something I haven't done in ages, but which I did regularly before Sluggo came to live with me: I watched documentaries on television all night. I'd forgotten how dumb some of them are. I did enjoy one I saw on the Discovery channel which was about SWATH ships.


The moon is waning but still fat, and the dense summer shadows of the trees were flecked with bits of its light that reminded me of broken bits of glass. I went out when the sky was just beginning to turn pale with approaching dawn and watched the moon shadows fade. A cricket was making its soft courting chirp in the flower bed by the porch. It was very restful.


God luck to Jesse, who has gone to the dogs, where he probably won't have to deal with as much bitching as he did at LJ. Dogster (and Catster) are like Friendster for beasts but (of course) much nicer.


I'm managing not to feel terribly crappy at the moment. Now to see if I can sleep for a few hours without twisting my neck into some weird position.

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Jul. 13th, 2006 08:28 pm
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Back to using the air conditioner today. Whenever it cycles off, it only takes two or three minutes before I begin to feel as though I had a fever. (OMG! West Nile Virus!) The yard is beginning to look a bit ratty. The lawn is brown, I've never gotten around to chopping off the dead lilies, and most of the bushes are overgrown. It's rather a rustic look. I don't mind. I sometimes think I'd like to have the place completely overgrown, to the point where it would look as though Miss Havisham might live here. As long as the house doesn't burn down, though.


I don't know how I've overlooked this for so long: Extensive excerpts from Robert Wright's "Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny" are available at this web site. Since I can't afford to buy many books anymore, and almost never get a chance to go get them from the library, I like finding big chunks of fairly recent books on teh Internets. Yay Internets. I especially enjoyed this excerpt which was adapted for publication in The New Yorker several years ago, in which Wright explains why the late Stephen Jay Gould was the creationists' favorite evolutionist. I always find irony at least mildly entertaining.

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