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sanpaku_backupTime goes on and I neglect to post about a bunch of things... for the past week or so we've been finishing our viewing of Twin Peaks and then the pilot and then the movie, while I've been engrossed in all the theories about what it "means." It's a fun diversion. The show proved to be more than I would have expected, more of the layers of an alternative world than "weird for the sake of weird," which is what I had thought when I saw it briefly years ago. I think it was a definite advantage to be able to watch the whole thing from beginning to end and in more or less continuous viewings over the past month. Virtually the whole mythos is explained in the show, so that the movie is superfluous, although it has some genuinely disturbing elements that really stay with you. (Though if you shelled out money to see the film without having seen the show, I'd imagine you'd be pretty confused/pissed off.) So the past few days I've been walking around trying to make "sense" of it all, and it is neat to see that the obsession is shared by so many other people.
Too, it was nice to find a piece of pop culture that the Mrs. and I could enjoy together for so many evenings. We share a few TV shows (Simpsons, The Wire, Larry David) but generally we have a tough time agreeing on movies to see and the like. She dislikes things that are
too snooty and I dislike things that are too pop, unless I can derive some sort of camp value from them. For example, I saw Match Point last weekend -- very good, very intense, not what I would think of as a "crowd pleaser" but the theater was packed -- and just the fact that it was at Cannes would be the kind of thing that would make her not watch it. So TP was right in the middle of that divide, thus it worked well. Not that we really need more TV in general, but with the Jo going to bed at 9, we're too tired to do too much else in the evenings.
My class started up again and it looks like a really strong group -- juniors and seniors with media studies or anthro background, asking good, perceptive questions. I've also been able to do some more research for this talk I'm supposed to give next month, which may turn into some kind of paper. Finally found some research leads that I could pursue locally, after being here for three years. I also was a dork at AHA and bought a book that cited me... provided some kind of creative jolt, I hope.
Balanced against all this is the fact that we probably need a new roof. The leaking has something to do with the shingles spacing themselves out... they told me $5,900, which is less than I would have thought but certainly more than I have lying around somewhere. Fortunately (I guess) they won't fix it until the "rainy season" is over, which gives me a few months to figure out what to do!
Too, it was nice to find a piece of pop culture that the Mrs. and I could enjoy together for so many evenings. We share a few TV shows (Simpsons, The Wire, Larry David) but generally we have a tough time agreeing on movies to see and the like. She dislikes things that are
too snooty and I dislike things that are too pop, unless I can derive some sort of camp value from them. For example, I saw Match Point last weekend -- very good, very intense, not what I would think of as a "crowd pleaser" but the theater was packed -- and just the fact that it was at Cannes would be the kind of thing that would make her not watch it. So TP was right in the middle of that divide, thus it worked well. Not that we really need more TV in general, but with the Jo going to bed at 9, we're too tired to do too much else in the evenings.
My class started up again and it looks like a really strong group -- juniors and seniors with media studies or anthro background, asking good, perceptive questions. I've also been able to do some more research for this talk I'm supposed to give next month, which may turn into some kind of paper. Finally found some research leads that I could pursue locally, after being here for three years. I also was a dork at AHA and bought a book that cited me... provided some kind of creative jolt, I hope.
Balanced against all this is the fact that we probably need a new roof. The leaking has something to do with the shingles spacing themselves out... they told me $5,900, which is less than I would have thought but certainly more than I have lying around somewhere. Fortunately (I guess) they won't fix it until the "rainy season" is over, which gives me a few months to figure out what to do!
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Date: 2006-01-25 05:02 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-01-25 07:09 pm (UTC)I need a second opinion, is what I need!
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Date: 2006-01-25 07:48 pm (UTC)But yeah, I'd get at least three quotes if you're looking at over $5000. That's nutty.
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Date: 2006-01-25 07:50 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-01-25 07:55 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-01-25 05:26 pm (UTC)Try pouring really strong coffee on the roof. Or maybe ritalin?
Your shingles have a job to do-- they need to be ON TASK!
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Date: 2006-01-25 07:10 pm (UTC)worth a shot
Date: 2006-01-25 09:45 pm (UTC)Man, roofs (rooves?) are the siplest things in the world. Especially on old houses. All it is is plywood nailed to the frame and shingles nailed to the plywood. YOU CAN DO IT!
From THE INSIDE (in the ATTIC) go in there TODAY and look for rotting wood. Where there is wet or rotting wood, there's a problem. Figure out where the hole (or seam) is and spray some of that expanding foam into it. Now you've gone from 5,900 to 5.9 ...
Re: worth a shot
Date: 2006-01-25 10:04 pm (UTC)Re: worth a shot
Date: 2006-01-25 10:15 pm (UTC)expanding foam = death
Date: 2006-01-26 06:02 am (UTC)Re: expanding foam = death
Date: 2006-01-26 01:33 pm (UTC)Re: expanding foam = death
Date: 2006-01-26 06:27 pm (UTC)