General crapulance, with distractions
2007-06-03 | Filed under Bryn Mawr, Life, Uncategorized |
I’ve been feeling lousy lately. An actual cold eased me into allergy-like symptoms over the Memorial Day weekend and now general ickiness that can probably be blamed on antibiotics. Of all these items, I found the allergy-like symptoms most disconcerting. I’ve never gotten seasonal allergies before, and it would really suck to start now. But anecdotal evidence indicates that a lot of other non-allergic folks have had the same symptoms; we’ve heard it’s the pine trees. I’ll buy that. I prefer that explanation to contemplating a life of allergy meds.
This weekend was my tenth college reunion, which I pretty much ignored. Bryn Mawr classes do something official on the fives, so I’d always intended to go to those (and quite enjoyed my fifth). But this year I’ve generally been distracted and reunion didn’t rank as anything even approaching a priority; plus, the campus is fifteen minutes away, so at no point did I need to consider making arrangements in advance or any other sort of logistical issues. I’d vaguely intended to go by campus and see what was happening. Instead I spent most of Saturday on the couch, because sometimes it’s nice to wallow in feeling sick (especially when you don’t feel really sick). Saturday evening Larry and I swung by, took a stroll around campus, and listened to some of the music out on the green. Not a really good reunion experience per se, but just about my speed last night.
In happier news, last night I was clicking around a Medieval Bestiary (I love the internet) and came across the entry for the barnacle goose. When I was a kid, I checked a bestiary out of the library. I think it was the Utica Public Library, and I think it was a bestiary that I’d seen on Reading Rainbow. I remember it had an entry on mock dogs (not fake dogs, but an animal that mimed human behavior to comic effect), as well as what was evidently the barnacle goose. I’m pretty sure there were some differences between the critters online and the ones described in the books—either the geese that fell in the water turned into birds and the ones that fell on land turned into fruit, or the ones that fell in the water turned into fish and the ones that fell on land turned into birds. (That last one feels right, since it allows the product of the tree to potentially be fruit, fish, or fowl, depending on when it’s harvested.) In progressively more frustrating news, I’ve been trying to find a title of the book I read as a kid. Neither the Reading Rainbow site nor the Mid-York Library System has yielded any promising leads.
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