This and that
by chuckofish
How was your weekend? Mine was pretty uneventful, but I didn’t mind the quiet. I saw a friend for happy hour on Friday, and that’s about all the socializing I need for one weekend. Otherwise, I spent a good amount of time reading under a pile of quilts, puttering around the house tidying up corners, and preparing for the week.
Unfortunately, I had to spend all of Sunday afternoon reviewing applicants for a job search I am chairing. Oy vey, the never-ending pile of cover letters. I suppose I am not at liberty to say much (we get a real talking to about confidentiality from our “equity officers”) but it has been…quite an experience. I broke up my time in human-resources-mode by online shopping and brainstorming Christmas gifts. We are getting close!
I bought these cards to give to colleagues, since they are holiday-neutral and appropriately disgruntled for that staff office vibe.
Maybe next weekend I will bring up the Christmas storage and see what I have on hand. In my old (tiny) apartment, I could never use everything I had, so I am hoping to discover some new-feeling decor and ornaments. In the meantime, I will try to muster up all of my energy for one last full work week before Thanksgiving. I’m in the midst of this search, as well as an office move to a new building, and a slew of student meetings, so it’s going to be a busy one.
By the way — did you catch the moon this week? The November full moon was on the 12th, but it blazed each night all week, at least in our apartment’s view. It was pretty wild!
“There is something haunting in the light of the moon; it has all the dispassionateness of a disembodied soul, and something of its inconceivable mystery.”
From Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad
dual personalities 
Yes, one last full week before Thanksgiving! Hold that thought! And the moon was pretty terrific last week.
Good luck with that search! And I love the Joseph Conrad quote!
I frequently get moonlight in my eyes–which is an odd sensation!
We should’ve talked about Conrad and the moon! The man can’t get enough of it. My favorite Conrad moon quote is a little metaphor for framing narratives. From HoD: “The yarns of seamen have a direct simplicity, the whole meaning of which lies within the shell of a cracked nut. But Marlow was not typical, and to him the meaning of an episode was not inside like a kernel but outside, enveloping the tale which brought it out only as a glow brings out a haze, in the likeness of one of these misty halos that sometimes are made visible by the spectral illumination of moonshine”