Sparknotes

This summer I’m reading the Spencer’s Faiery Queene.  Tragically, though difficult to spell, the Faiery Queene is twice as difficult to absorb, and Sparknotes has only seen fit to put up the first and third books.  So it goes.

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Bigfoot

Bigfoot is only fun from a distance.  Don’t let quasi-humanoid voilence ruin your fun- don’t fight a yeti.

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Billboard

Mo’s is a famous seafood restaurant in Newport, Oregon.  As you leave Philomath, Oregon, on the road that goes to Newport there is a Billboard that says “Mo’s Worldfamous Clam Cowder, Mo’s says ‘Play Safe, Don’t Play on Logs’” and has a picutre of a person slipping off a log with an “X” through it.  [...]

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Sign

Next Left, Gold Lake Nordic Area.

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Charge

I noticed that the other people in the parking lot were talking about how the blue van’s lights were on, and wondering what they should do.  When they were gone I got up and turned off the lights and tried to start the car, which wouldn’t start.  I called my mother who called her friend/client, [...]

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On the Town

Yesterday we went for desert at the very fancy (for Corvallis) illegal restaurant Strega.  Strega is illegal because it is on the sixth floor (top floor) of a building that is taller than the court house, and so that building is not allowed to exist.  Regardless of this, it exists and it has a very [...]

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Summer Work

I’ve found summer time work for half time during the months of July and August!  Yee-haw.

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Newport Library

In a strange phenomenon, Newport’s Library seems to be the local hang out for the greaser teen set.  A sub set of 14 year olds who are all wearing black and are heavily peirced and are clearly not in school are also in the Newport library, enjoying the free high speed internet.   When I was [...]

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Sister’s Inn

Me: Ah! I see your rooms are allergy free.
Hotel Owner:  Yes, yes they are.  They’re entirely alergy free with no chemicals or anything.
Me: Well, that’s just great, because I’ve got a lot of alergies.
Hotel Owner: Great!
Me: No.
Hotel Owner: I mean, you can test it for us.

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U-Kraine

Rodeo Announcer: And let me tell you, folks, we are so blessed, so blessed, to have with us here a little lady all the way from the U-Kraine.  That’s right, the U-Kraine.  Here’s the lovely Kira K…., Kira Ka…. Kira Kav….
Rodeo Clown: I’m prety sure you butchered that one.
Rodeo Announcer:  I’m sure I didn’t.  Here [...]

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Sister’s Rodeo

At the Sister’s Rodeo (the biggest little rodeo in the world) the woman in front of us wanted to stand up and take pictures. 
Woman:  Oh, I’m sorry.  It’s just that my daughter is one of the rodeo princesses.  She’s the one carrying the smokeless tobacco sign.  She doesn’t chew, though.  Her father does.

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Today

David comes today.  It’s cold and rainy and I’m going to go run the seven mile loop, after which I have to finish vaccuuming the basement and putting David’s bed together.  The five day forcast for Oregon is good, and it’s lucky I saw that on the news, otherwise I’d dispair of David getting any [...]

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Cleaning!

This is a day full of cleaning.  My sister’s gone back to school (for summer school) and I’m taking her room and it’s a big hassle.  Tomorrow David comes and so I’m vaccuuming the downstairs, and this is also an amazing hassle.  However, the house is going to be clean like whoa, as is the yard.

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Yard Work!

We’ve finally gotten out all the railroad ties except the ones that serve as steps.  While David is here, we’e taking those out and we’re building steps out of cement.  Last year I tried to build steps myself, but it didn’t work.  I assume that it didn’t work because I tried to do it on [...]

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Esthetics

I read (on a beauty school website connected to BYU) the sentence “esthetics, sometimes mistakenly called aesthetics by academics, is a new discipline, devoted entirely to the effective combination of hair style and makeup”.  I hate it when academics get spellings (not to mention definitions) wrong. 

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Jewish Carpentry

In Corvallis, Oregon, a very popular car sticker says “My boss is a JEWISH CARPENTER”.  Of course they mean Jesus, but they are also out of the loop, because on of the most popular carpenters, painters, and general handy-men in town is David Solomon.  Mr. Solomon, who paints everything we need painted ever (and who [...]

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Oregon

In Oregon today it is either sunny and warm or cool and rainy, and in both cases it is lovely to read Spencer and think about graduate writing.  It’s also damn hard to find a job as OSU’s budget is cut, but, if there is no job to be found, then I will know Early [...]

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Stories

I told my parents (when they got home from swimming my grandfather) the story of Chauncy being chased by the chickens. 
My mother:  Well, I guess we’d better go get those chickens.
Me: No! What?  They’re fighting chickens.  I don’t think we can get them.
My mother: I bet they’d come if we put out food.

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Heard of Chickens

We were running the seven mile loop today and those dogs went to swim in the quarry.  Oscar fell down the cliff and landed in the water.  We went to keep running (me and the dog Oscar), and Chauncy kept swimming.  As Oscar and I rounded the corner we came across six roosters, two of [...]

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Allergies

I have very bad allergies that blinded me yesterday while I was working in the blackberries.  I came inside sightless, and my mother brought me eye drops.
I took the eye drops and they cleared my eyes a bt, then I looked at the drops.
Me:  These don’t say anything about allergies.  Are you sure these are [...]

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