November 2004

I just discovered that I am a “book hoarding”. I didn’t realize that there was actually a name for this syndrome.

Book Hoarding

Arundhati Roy was recently awarded the 2004 Sydney Peace Prize.
http://www.spf.arts.usyd.edu.au/news.html

I just started reading her book, The God of Small Things, which won the Booker Prize for 1997. Currently, Roy spends her time writing articles to promote world peace. Some of those articles can be found as links on the sites below.

http://www.chitram.org/mallu/ar.htm
http://website.lineone.net/~jon.simmons/roy/

Ok so I’m probably the worst blogger out there. Not only do I fail to ever blog about much of anything really, but our blog was down for a good portion of September and October and I didn’t even know it until Mitch sent us an email about it.

Well to update our current situation: We are currently working on remodeling the kitchen and bathroom. The bathroom was done once already, but I did a terrible job sanding (i.e. I did no sanding at all) so the wall was still really rough from all the wallpaper gunk that was on it and it looked terrible after we painted. So I got a tip from a friend who said to use joint compound all over the wall to fill in the rough spots - this works like a charm and I’m eternaly grateful to the friends who sent us this. I’m also using the same technique in the kitchen because we have this texured/tiled/grooved wallpaper which we did not want to take down because the walls are made of such flimsy material we were afraid it’d tear the whole wall down (stupid southern construction). Please pity me for the amount of dust I’m going to create after I sand to full rooms of joint compund.

As always the colors we have chosen are sketchy at best, we both like them on the swatch, but after seeing the dried paint on the can, I feel a bit hesitant. Luckily we just got a small can of each this time, so we can try it before making a final decision. Here’s the two swatch colors we chose:

I am now losing focus and I’m going to have to finish this entry early.

“Beginning Monday, November 15, 2004 until March 2005, C-SPAN will televise live a series of discussions hosted by the Library of Congress’ John W. Kluge Center. The series will examine how the digital age is changing the most basic ways information is organized and classified. The goal is to educate the public on the what the digital age means to their lives. The events will include a featured speaker, followed by a panel discussion, and a question and answer session with the audience at the venue, and C-SPAN television viewers. Our viewers will be invited to email questions to the experts.”
http://www.c-span.org/congress/digitalfuture.asp

This should be good.