Queen Mediocretia of Suburbia

Putting the TMI in absentminded

Author: Ellen S______

  • Moon notes

    Okay, this is Sunday evening, and I have a comment for the astronaut giving notes on the far side of the moon. You mentioned two key things. Evidently some parts OF THE MOON are brown, and some are tinged green. So stop rhapsodizing about the Terminator. Tell me more about the green. Lime green or…

  • Moon day!

    It is a shame that the president has chosen the same day and time for his public speech on the current war in Iran. Is he competing with the moon for attention? I bet the astronauts are pretty excited. It really is a shame the toilet has been working only on and off. I would…

  • TWIL: Something new about my favorite book

    [SPOILERS GALORE!] [NYT CROSSWORD SPOILERS! ENDING OF JANE EYRE SPOILERS!] The New York Times crossword had a clue sometime this past week, something like “Literary heroine’s name that describes her appearance and the end of the book.” Other letters left no choice other than Jane Eyre. “Huh. Okay, Jane, Plain Jane, kind of a stretch…

  • Plants in pots

    I am tweaking the landscaping — and this year is the year of the pink, evidently. Phlox, which I’ve never tried, and dianthus, which is a soldier. You will note they are still in the pots. I worked for hours today, but it was all spent unearthing the river rocks I put out ten years…

  • Mission Control CapCom

    When I think of Capcom (the Capsule Communicator, the guy who communicates with the space capsule), I think of this hard-smoking coffee-drinking guy, Gene Kranz. I can’t tell you how nice it was to watch the burn that pointed the Artemis astronauts to the moon, and to notice that the majority of the people on…

  • Weekly Paint Progress: 4/2/2026

    So this is the previous … This is the progress … And this is the goal. Hmm. I think that the best case is that it ends up no worse than before. Haven’t messed with the flowers yet. The wall needs glazes so it isn’t so mottled. And I’m using titanium white. Is there an…

  • Launch

    I know we’ve put people into low earth orbit for years, but it’s not the same as going to the moon. Two things happened in the last few hours: Someone at work referred to a work deadline as T minus 2 hours away and I snapped at her. Someone on the NASA channel mentioned that…

  • Tarted Up

    I am anticipating the launch tomorrow, but I have to say my heart sinks when I see what they did to the booster rockets. I mean, why? I can kind of see NASA wanting their worm logo on there. Make it clear this is a government expedition and not a billionaire expedition. But why the…

  • How the new drug works: in practice, not in theory

    In the past, I have made lists of things I want to accomplish over the weekend or vacation. I actually finish 50% of them. These last few months I haven’t even made lists. I’ve been in my room, reading, watching mindless things on YouTube, but mostly too tired to do anything but stare at the…

  • TWIL: How the new drug works

    I love knowing how drugs work. For example, MS eats myelin, the outer layer of your nerves, so one of my MS meds was a syringe of decoy myelin. I mean, I have no idea how they made it, maybe it was hamster myelin, but whatever. I know the general plan of attack. This Modafinil/Provigil…