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Hot as Hades & Schadenfreude

I was considering riding my bike to the library to roam the aisles for that ever-elusive, compelling book that'll I'll read and not be able to put down and to pick up a copy of Charlotte's Web for one of my students.  Then I decided to check weather.com and--oh my gods--it is 3:30 pm and 108 degrees Fahrenheit outside!  Yes, you read that right--almost 110 degrees!  I've yet to set foot outside my apartment today.  I am even apprehensive about going down a couple of floors to check my mailbox in the garage (but I am also dying to go since I am awaiting a package from my angel-volunteer Dye-O-Rama pal)!  I am ever so thankful for my small studio with its powerful air conditioning unit.  At least here, in my studio, I can reasonably pretend I don't live in Hades. 

To entertain myself while cooped up in my cooled studio I have done the following:

  • Knitted and listened to NPR's game show Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me (Humorous quiz about news/current events)
  • Knitted and listened to This American Life (if you listen to this week's show, "The Parrot and the Potbellied Pig," skip the middle segment about the pig that ends a guy's relationship with his girlfriend--very slow, boring, and quite the depressing downer.  However, the first story about the kidnapped parrot from the zoo is great!)
  • Knitted and watched the 4th show from season 2 of Project Runway.  I have been glutting myself on Project Runway as of late.  I stayed up until the wee hours of this morning to watch shows 1-3 of season 2.  I know for certain that I hate Santino and feel a definite, sharp-but-pleasing burst of Schadenfreude each time he doesn't win a competition.  Granted, he's a great designer, but his ego and his attitude towards- and about others is really nauseating.  I'll probably end up watching the last 4 or whatever episodes this weekend, so if you've watched the show (or not) and know the winner, please don't tell me.  I am doing so well in not cheating by looking at the website to find out the winner.  Update--07/23/06--John, my love-dove, unfortunately spilled the beans on who won the show!  So no more surprise for me!  Also, there is no way I shall finish the entire season this weekend as there are 16 shows total, not 8 total like I orginally believed. 
  • I tried to watch a Cuban movie I got from the library called Nada+.  Very, very artsy and conceptual--but just couldn't get into it enough to justify knitting and reading subtitles.
  • Am I now in the middle of watching a documentary by Greg Palast of the BBC called Bush Family Fortunes: The Best Democracy Money Can Buy.  Very interesting and disturbing.  Will write about the black vote in Florida (2000) when I'm finished with the movie.
  • And yet more knitting.

Posted by hollyarn on July 22, 2006 at 04:05 PM in Books, Knitting, Living, Politics, Television | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack (0)

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