Queen Mediocretia of Suburbia

Putting the TMI in absentminded

Month: November 2021

  • Russian 2021

    It’s time to shift hobbies. Hello Russian, goodbye guitar, at least until I finish all the drafts of the book. Russian takes only five minutes a day, whereas I have plateaued on the guitar. I’ve only been on Duolingo for five days but I can identify who owns that bicycle (это мой велосипед). I could…

  • Up the Nose

    So TeddyJ is considering how to protect everyone against the virus. They have mentioned requiring vaccination proof or a weekly nasal test. I don’t know if this is because of Biden’s new OSHA requirements or if it’s independent. Recently a judge put the OSHA requirements on hold so this all may be moot. If not,…

  • Fortune Favors the Brave

    Twice last week I heard the phrase “Fortune favors the brave.” The first time was at work, when it was quoted by my great-grand boss to encourage us to ask questions. I responded by asking a very ill-advised question. Fortune did not favor me. (The grand-boss replied “What?” as if I were insane.) The second…

  • Owl

    Somehow in the years and years of filming the backyard we’ve never caught an owl before. No idea what he was eating there in the bottom left corner.

  • Swirly

    Twice in the last week I’ve heard a new term at work. “Swirly.” It means the swirl of chaos. “Everything was fine until the boss came in and then the meeting got all swirly.” Additionally, “I don’t know if it was the finger-pointing or the swirl, but that situation fell apart.” Is this just a…

  • Weekly Paint Progress: 11/4

    What to paint next? I was looking for prospects in my Photos. I considered taking another stab at the bologna peonies, using glazes this time … … but then I came across this. Not only peonies but the difficult Ball pitcher AND reflections in glass. Very tricky.

  • Rolling Stone’s 100 Greatest Songs of All Time

    The latest issue of Rolling Stone arrived. It keeps coming, though I don’t remember having paid for it, and think I’m the only one here with the vision to read the tiny print. I was intrigued when the cover promised a list of “THE GREATEST SONGS OF ALL TIME.” Certainly Rolling Stone would have compiled…

  • Memories of the Old Romances

    For our first date, I asked Gary out with the patented line, “We’ve been talking for hours, why don’t we continue this conversation over dinner?” The other day I was thinking about boyfriends other than Gary, and I realized I couldn’t remember how any of those guys asked me out. I remember every detail of…

  • Scary Covid Halloween

    Halloween made me wistful this year. I had to avoid the germy kiddies with the porch lights off, plus no front room lights, so essentially I hid in the dark in the back bedroom. I look at graphs and see how close we are to getting out of all this nonsense. Here’s the graph for…