I gave up on caffeine this past summer—I actually cut it off cold turkey for a good long while. I’m backsliding a bit now, though, just because my early morning teaching schedule has me feeling mostly exhausted all the time (I hope I adjust soon).
This new blog, Smelling the Coffee, is not helping. Even the title is driving me nuts. I’ll probably pop in to the coffee shop in town this afternoon, but I’ll settle for mere decaf.
It’s the evening. It’s January. This is Minnesota. And it’s raining. There is liquid water on the ground.
This is simply not right. I am distressed.
That is not my picture, I’ll have you know, and although last night’s party was lightly attended, it was quite pleasant, with plenty of food and good conversation, and it went on until midnight. I had no idea how louche Grrlscientist was, though…I should have gotten a photo of her dancing on the table with the lampshade on her head, but I figured it would be breaking her anonymity to publish it.
Another week, another Friday Random Ten. This one is playing right now, and poor grrlscientist can actually confirm that yeah, I listen to this stuff.
| Bergfäst (Mountain Haunted) | Gjallarhorn |
| Before The Night Is Over | Gaelic Storm |
| My Weakness | Moby |
| Hjaðningaríma | Gjallarhorn |
| I’m not worried at all | Moby |
| The Good Times Are Killing Me | Modest Mouse |
| Forshyttan | Hedningarna |
| Don’t Make Me Dream About You | Chris Isaak |
| The Man Comes Around | Johnny Cash |
| Hot Hot Hot!!! | The Cure |
You wouldn’t know it to see it, but we aim to make Morris, Minnesota the Mecca of science blogging. How else to explain how we could draw Grrlscientist away from that boring dump of a town, New York, to visit our lovely prairie village for a week? It’s true: a whole two of us ScienceBlogs people are chattering away from this lonely outpost in the rural wilderness.
Any other science bloggers who want to stop on by, feel free. We’ve got a roomy house with a zippy wireless connection, and who needs anything more? Jay Manifold has been here, Radagast once drove by within a few hundred miles, and now we’re hosting Living the Scientific Life…I think that’s enough to qualify as a Mecca, right?
Anyway, we’re planning to cruise into Minneapolis tomorrow, see the Big City, and check out Drinking Liberally at the 331 Club around about 6—somebody alert the Power Liberal, Tild, and the Wege…we got some tough-talkin’, crazed scientists planning to crash their party.
We’re also hosting an event of our own here at Chez Myers on Friday, with the first
SOFA (Something On Friday Afternoon, a Morris tradition) of the semester at our place. If anyone wants to crash our party, just come on by.
I’ve got to inaugurate the new site with a Friday Random Ten, don’t I?
| My Generation | Patti Smith |
| Ghost Riders On The Storm | California Guitar Trio |
| Women’s Prison | Loretta Lynn |
| Coming in from the cold | The Delgados |
| Noctuary | Bonobo |
| Evolution | Ayumi Hamasaki |
| Death Is Not The End (With Nick Cave) | PJ Harvey |
| Walk Through My Door | Gaelic Storm |
| Lord, Fix Me | Madison Prayer Band |
| Leave My Monkey Alone | Warren Zevon |
