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.