Five Things for a Tuesday evening
Tue, Dec. 1st, 2009 06:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
scarlettina1) I received both the Noble Collection catalog and the Levinger's catalog in the same mail drop. This is only one of many ways you define torture in the age of austerity budgeting.
2) I discovered that Sophie knocked over a bin full of bead tubes onto the baseboard heater. How did I discover this? The smell of melting plastic filling the room. Spent the better part of an hour cleaning up the scattered beads (all of which were glass) and the icky, melted plastic. I suspect I'll be smelling it all for a while, though.
3) Tossed caution to the wind today and sent a query regarding an internship to KUOW (local NPR affiliate). They never responded to my volunteering e-mail from back in October, but this missive, I have been told via a fairly rapid and obviously personal response, is being circulated to the internship person. We'll see what happens. New career in radio? Who knows? If not, I may investigate the possibility of podcasting...if I can come up with something interesting and original to discuss regularly.
4) On loan from![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
jackwilliambell, I've been listening to an audio version of a biography of Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow. It's only my second audio book and a far more positive experience than the first, which was a crappy historical novel--the reader was absolutely remarkable, but the book itself was just awful. The Hamilton book, on the other hand, is fascinating. I'm about halfway through it and I'm enjoying it not just as an amateur student of history but also as a numismatist since there's a great deal of talk about America's earliest currencies and their evolution. My bedtime reading is another nonfiction book that I expect to finish tonight and will write about tomorrow.
5) I've sold some items on Etsy--yay! I've added to the mix Scrabble tile monogram pendants. I've kept the cost down on them and can supply any initial that might interest you-just specify what you need.
2) I discovered that Sophie knocked over a bin full of bead tubes onto the baseboard heater. How did I discover this? The smell of melting plastic filling the room. Spent the better part of an hour cleaning up the scattered beads (all of which were glass) and the icky, melted plastic. I suspect I'll be smelling it all for a while, though.
3) Tossed caution to the wind today and sent a query regarding an internship to KUOW (local NPR affiliate). They never responded to my volunteering e-mail from back in October, but this missive, I have been told via a fairly rapid and obviously personal response, is being circulated to the internship person. We'll see what happens. New career in radio? Who knows? If not, I may investigate the possibility of podcasting...if I can come up with something interesting and original to discuss regularly.
4) On loan from
jackwilliambell, I've been listening to an audio version of a biography of Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow. It's only my second audio book and a far more positive experience than the first, which was a crappy historical novel--the reader was absolutely remarkable, but the book itself was just awful. The Hamilton book, on the other hand, is fascinating. I'm about halfway through it and I'm enjoying it not just as an amateur student of history but also as a numismatist since there's a great deal of talk about America's earliest currencies and their evolution. My bedtime reading is another nonfiction book that I expect to finish tonight and will write about tomorrow.5) I've sold some items on Etsy--yay! I've added to the mix Scrabble tile monogram pendants. I've kept the cost down on them and can supply any initial that might interest you-just specify what you need.