A Post From Thin Air

Another very Novemberish photo. That is exactly what it looks like out there right now.

I pass these garages on my walks to work and I always wonder who they belong to -- common sense says the houses adjacent on either side, or perhaps opposite. I wonder if occupants pay extra for a garage? It's kind of a weird configuration. I'd be afraid I'd forget which one's mine, though I guess if I could always find my locker at school I could manage this.

Yesterday was just a blur of a day. I had so much to do -- shifting one book display, creating a second one, two stints working in the Lower School, a big stack of books to cover and plenty of re-shelving. No reading time for me! Maybe my boss read my blog and was determined to keep me busy. Well, you know what they say -- don't put anything online that you wouldn't want the whole world to know.

I built this display on Thursday, using pennants rescued from the college counseling office. (We have a huge stack of them -- many more than this.) It's focused on "Dark Academia," a sub-genre of fiction involving academic settings like colleges or boarding schools where nefarious things happen. I was happy to be able to include my mom's alma mater, Goucher, up at the top. We don't have pennants for any of the big state schools that my dad or Dave or I attended, sadly.

We've started watching "The Beast In Me," with Claire Danes, on Netflix. It's very good. And we just finished "The Feud," a British show that was both compelling and fairly ridiculous at the same time, featuring the unbearably sexy Rupert Penry-Jones. It was one of those family dramas taking place on a supposedly typical suburban street, yet by the end there are not one but two murders and potentially another dead body in a backyard. Not like any typical suburb I ever saw!