Tuesday, March 27, 2007

Madison Metro Transit

So this week I have jury duty. And I can't say much about it at the moment, except that since our sunny, 80-degree weather has passed, my morning commute to the capitol square is now accomplished via city bus rather than by bicycle. Kevin very patiently (very patiently!) explained the required bus route to me, and off I went this morning with a dollar and two quarters in hand. Delightfully, the Madison buses play a very peppy recorded announcement of the two cross street names of every stop you pass on your way. At least it's delightful up to a point. I live very close to one Jenifer Street which makes up a part of my route downtown. So for this stretch of the way I had what felt like a very personalized update of my own progress through town. I start hearing
"Jennifer! at Baldwin!"

and
"Jennifer! at Few!"

followed by
"Jennifer! at Ingersoll!"

until I started to feel like yelling something back in the affirmative... some sort of confirmation of the recorded announcements. Thankfully it didn't go on for too long, but on my way home it felt kind of surreal after the tiring day of civic duty. Maybe tomorrow I'll bring some music & headphones.

Saturday, March 24, 2007

It's just a children's song, right?

I found myself humming 'Pop Goes the Weasel' as I was getting ready for work the other morning, and I started to think about it a bit... maybe too much. So now I'm curious. In your head, what is happening to the weasel at the end of the song - when he goes 'pop'? Why would a weasel go 'pop'?

Tuesday, March 20, 2007

Did anyone else watch Dancing with the Stars last night? I was completely fascinated by Leila Ali (also a professional boxer). Something about the way she spoke, and was nearly six feet tall, and could crush anyone... but then pulled off the foxtrot with no problem. Wow. If I were to marry a woman, I would marry her.

Monday, March 12, 2007

neat-o!

As of today, our balcony is snow-free! And I found my trowel underneath all the slush. Now I can more efficiently work on re-potting Herman. And there were no major DST issues at work yesterday or today, thankyouverymuch.