Peeps – unholy marshmallow creatures. Being more of a chocolate bunny girl myself, I didn’t encounter Peeps until three years ago when a co-worker introduced me to the original Peep Research page. Then, it was LOTR as peformed by the little critters: Lord of the Peeps: The Fellowship of the Peep. Now, at last, someone has done a Peep study that touches my very heart: A study of small fluffy creatures and library research.
Author Archives: Autumn
Bemused
Why do people insist on painting cars yellow?
Extremes
Three States Aim to Outlaw Eco-Protests
What’s next – complete abolishment of free speech?
And at the other end of the spectrum, science has established the optimum method of shoe lacing. Thank goodness; I don’t know how much longer we could have gone on…
See what happens when I work at the computer? I blog as I find nifty stuff while I research. When I don’t work, I don’t blog. You can be thankful or disappointed, as you like.
I’m done now, though. I need another Advil or two; my neck hurts.
Offhand
After an hour and a half break to take an Advil, make and eat dinner, and have a glass of wine, I’m back at the computer. Hey, don’t try to stop me. I’ve been restless and not-work-y for the past ten days; let me work while I’m happy to work!
Besides, it benefits two parties: the employer who needs this freelance work done, and me, because my work makes money so that I can buy more books. (This is serious. I’m currently in the throes of Egyptian and Norse mythology heaven, and I’ve got a list of titles I want as long as my arm.) Plus I’m multi-tasking: while one page loads, I’m searching out new links with the other.
Eventually I’ll stop, and I’ll watch Buffy or something. Speaking of, was anyone else left a bit off-balance by the Angel season finale? It was great, and tied up loose ends while preparing for a new season, but I guess I’m just too used to mass violence and cataclysm on Angel these days. There was surprisingly little cataclysmic action in this episode. It made for a nice break for the characters, of course – who, come to think of it, were left as equally off-balance.
Asatru
I’ve been sailing along through this research, and all of a sudden, I’m forced to take another break; the server which hosts the pages I’m working on is overloaded and has politely asked me to come back later. Well, it’s one way to make sure I take time to stretch and munch something, and pour myself some iced tea (I gave up on the hot kind; it kept cooling before I got to drink it).
On my travels about today, I came across this article on the growing pains of Asatru on the Asatru Folk Assembly site , the modern Norse reconstructionist religion, comparable to traditional Wicca being a reconstruction of Celtic-Britannic spirituality. It seems that they’re addressing many of the same problems the eclectic Pagan community is addressing: the evolution from a hearth/home-based religion to a public religion, the problem of clergy, the problem of congregation in a non-organised religion, and the issue of money. I found it interesting.
This Just In
Food for thought:
If one is attempting to sculpt a three-dimensional Egyptian lotus, how on earth does one do it when the majority of Egyptian art is two-dimensional?
Back to work.
Hurtling
Apparently this one of those days where I work non-stop and make up for the days when I can’t face the computer.
My eyes hurt after four hours at the computer. And I really ought to make tea and have breakfast. Or lunch, evidently, now that I look at the clock…