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February 5, 2007
Beans, Nuts and Duty
I am rolling out of a weekend that made me feel very unproductive- the kind where you look at the clock on Sunday and it is 9pm and you've accomplished nothing that you'd hope to have. Normally, I savor weekends where I do nothing but this time I just felt like a failure. Thankfully, there are at least four weekends in a month. So onward, I guess.
Instead of doing things that mattered this weekend, I honed in on the following:
- Elizabeth Tashijan died on Saturday. I am fascinated by this woman, mainly because the main headline in the NYTimes was "Elizabeth Tashijan, 94, An Expert on Nuts, Dies." I kind of want this as my epithet. Of course, I know that mine will have something to do with cats, whether I like it or not.
- Ford has a new truck out and it is called the Super Duty. A commercial for it came on while I was half asleep on the couch last night and through my half closed eyes I said to Alexis, "Super duty? Who would name a car Super Duty? Does it only come in brown?" and then promptly fell back asleep.
That was the bulk of my weekend, sadly, with the one exception of visiting the Mary Whalen and dry dock #1 in the Brooklyn Navy Yard, which I will report on later this week.
Posted by callalillie at February 5, 2007 7:16 AM | Random
I know what you mean. I didn't step on foot out the door this weekend. Friday night I got a new car and didn't drive it at all. I ordered Chinese food, took some pictures of the cat and finally gave my kitchen a good cleaning. Blah.
Posted by: catnip at February 5, 2007 11:09 AM
I wish I had done even that! Though I guess that I did make some effort to clean the house on Sunday...and we humped it to the supermarket.
I am wondering if some new office/organizational supplies will help me get back to my list of work items...like labeling all of my research so I don't keep forgetting what I have.
I guess office supplies do have a curative effect.
Posted by: corie at February 5, 2007 11:11 AM
Odd that the Times ran the obit in the dining section. Tashjian was an expert on nuts as art, not as food.
Posted by: Joe at February 5, 2007 6:49 PM
i had the exact same kind of weekend. it seems to be happening a lot lately. hibernating for the winter i guess. although there are a million things i could do around the house (i need to organize and label my research too!) so i don't know what my excuse is on that one.
Posted by: tina at February 6, 2007 9:43 AM
