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This post makes me feel a little better about having only spent one week throwing myself into displacement activities to fool my hindbrain into forgetting that I was actually supposed to be scrubbing out the bathtub -- granted, knitting is a constructive activity, but neither that nor pulling everything down from the tops of the kitchen cabinets to sort out what can be disposed of since we obviously haven't needed it in the last seven years gets me any closer to being able to take a shower without fear of my feet rotting off. I did, at least, manage on Wednesday to take the baby-step of reorganizing the bathroom in such a way that I can now access the bathtub itself, which endeavor involved throwing out the cat-basket that the P-trap had barfed upwards into so I could have a place to set the basket of befouled laundry besides in the tub.
Also discovered that the handymen had left a deposit of slime behind the radiator which is easily deep enough to sprout seeds in, were there any light back there. I had been wondering why the bathroom still smelled like a greenhouse... Must get on stick to move out before winter comes, or else we shall have to clean that dirt out of there before the radiators come back on.
However, the portion of said Displacement Activities that involved knitting was quite fruitful in itself, as I am finally entering the home stretch of a shawl that I had been procrastinating on. Curiously, although the pattern on the skein says to make 5 wedges, I am now on a seventh and only now reaching a stage of visibly coming to the end of the giant ball of yarn. Will probably stop after completing said seventh wedge, as shawl is already approaching a 3/4 circle, and come up with some sort of frilly edging to run along the open edge if there's still quite a bit of yarn left, as there does look like being. Will probably be pestering people to borrow a digital camera when this project is finished.
Also, finished reading Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, having lucked out at the library and snagged a momentarily unreserved copy. I had previously gotten to page 400 before they'd wanted it back the first time I'd risen to the top to the reserve list, and it was a bit disorienting to try to pick up the story there after a couple of months, but once I'd gotten back into it I enjoyed it immensely. One does hope that Clarke's next literary effort doesn't take a similar decade to write, the world already has Thomas Pynchon for that...
Our library also has a decent selection of DVDs, maybe a bit weighted towards "classics" but still keeping up enough with current releases that we're slowly catching up on all the movies we've missed getting to in the last ten years, like Finding Nemo (yay), Memento (meh), Girl with a Pearl Earring (meh), and of course Pirates of the Caribbean (arrrr!). Last night we watched Seabiscuit, which left me wondering what everyone had been raving about -- there might have been a movie in there somewhere, but I don't think they tried hard enough to find it before releasing the film into the wild. Still in the queue to get through before Saturday are Whale Rider, Bend it like Beckham, and episodes 7-9 of I, Claudius, which I think Mum has given up trying to stay awake through after her long workdays so I'll probably watch that during the day sometime. (I know I've seen the series more recently than its original airing because I remember thinking "...D'you suppose that's really Patrick Stewart's original hair?", but I mustn't have been following it very closely because it's all fresh to me this time around.)
So, a question to my Readers: since the only movies I've managed to get out to see in theaters in the last ten years that weren't animated were LotR, Harry Potter, Gladiator, Hitchhiker's Guide, and the disastrous choices of Episode 1, The Time Machine, King Arthur, and Tim Burton's remake of Planet of the Apes (and no, I don't think I'm leaving any live-action movies out, either, we've been That Broke) -- what have I missed that was actually worth watching? When I run out of easy pickings at the library, I'll be raring to head over to Blockbuster with a list of recommendations...
Also discovered that the handymen had left a deposit of slime behind the radiator which is easily deep enough to sprout seeds in, were there any light back there. I had been wondering why the bathroom still smelled like a greenhouse... Must get on stick to move out before winter comes, or else we shall have to clean that dirt out of there before the radiators come back on.
However, the portion of said Displacement Activities that involved knitting was quite fruitful in itself, as I am finally entering the home stretch of a shawl that I had been procrastinating on. Curiously, although the pattern on the skein says to make 5 wedges, I am now on a seventh and only now reaching a stage of visibly coming to the end of the giant ball of yarn. Will probably stop after completing said seventh wedge, as shawl is already approaching a 3/4 circle, and come up with some sort of frilly edging to run along the open edge if there's still quite a bit of yarn left, as there does look like being. Will probably be pestering people to borrow a digital camera when this project is finished.
Also, finished reading Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, having lucked out at the library and snagged a momentarily unreserved copy. I had previously gotten to page 400 before they'd wanted it back the first time I'd risen to the top to the reserve list, and it was a bit disorienting to try to pick up the story there after a couple of months, but once I'd gotten back into it I enjoyed it immensely. One does hope that Clarke's next literary effort doesn't take a similar decade to write, the world already has Thomas Pynchon for that...
Our library also has a decent selection of DVDs, maybe a bit weighted towards "classics" but still keeping up enough with current releases that we're slowly catching up on all the movies we've missed getting to in the last ten years, like Finding Nemo (yay), Memento (meh), Girl with a Pearl Earring (meh), and of course Pirates of the Caribbean (arrrr!). Last night we watched Seabiscuit, which left me wondering what everyone had been raving about -- there might have been a movie in there somewhere, but I don't think they tried hard enough to find it before releasing the film into the wild. Still in the queue to get through before Saturday are Whale Rider, Bend it like Beckham, and episodes 7-9 of I, Claudius, which I think Mum has given up trying to stay awake through after her long workdays so I'll probably watch that during the day sometime. (I know I've seen the series more recently than its original airing because I remember thinking "...D'you suppose that's really Patrick Stewart's original hair?", but I mustn't have been following it very closely because it's all fresh to me this time around.)
So, a question to my Readers: since the only movies I've managed to get out to see in theaters in the last ten years that weren't animated were LotR, Harry Potter, Gladiator, Hitchhiker's Guide, and the disastrous choices of Episode 1, The Time Machine, King Arthur, and Tim Burton's remake of Planet of the Apes (and no, I don't think I'm leaving any live-action movies out, either, we've been That Broke) -- what have I missed that was actually worth watching? When I run out of easy pickings at the library, I'll be raring to head over to Blockbuster with a list of recommendations...