This is where I got the title of my blog and it's also one of my favorite Python sketches "Live at the Refreshment Room, Bletchley":
Here's another favorite: Tonight, mollusks.
My all-time favorite Monty Python sketch is this one, which has to do with "woody" sounding words as opposed to "tinny" sounding words:
Most of the Python sketches I loved were written by Eric Idle, who had a degree in English. I love to play with words and phrases. My degree is in Linguistics, the study of language, which includes slang and dialects:
Friday, April 17, 2009
Monday, April 06, 2009
Work
Tomorrow, I help my supervisor teach a class on payment vouchers. I'm supposed to teach half of the class, then all of the classes after this one. I enjoy it, so I'm looking forward to it. I'm almost finished with the office intranet site too.
I had another cervical steroid injection today and I'm having a lot of pain. My thighs are spasming like I've ridden a bike up Mount Kilimanjaro and I have a dull headache, not to mention wanting to eat everything in the house. I suppose that's a side effect from the steroids. I've held off, though. I'll need to remember the Darvocet tomorrow. I'm going to need it.
I had another cervical steroid injection today and I'm having a lot of pain. My thighs are spasming like I've ridden a bike up Mount Kilimanjaro and I have a dull headache, not to mention wanting to eat everything in the house. I suppose that's a side effect from the steroids. I've held off, though. I'll need to remember the Darvocet tomorrow. I'm going to need it.
Wednesday, April 01, 2009
Home
I awoke this morning with a pounding head, so home I stayed. I ended up sleeping until noon, and my head eased up a bit. This windy weather is killing me. The wind always seems to blow in something that blows my head up.
I talked to my aunt last night. She just lost her husband last month and it broke my heart to hear her crying on the phone. She got married for the first time when she was 13 (country people used to do that back then) and she married her second husband almost immediately after the first one died, so she's never been alone her whole life. It has to be a terrifying prospect for her. It seemed like everything I said to her was cliched; "he's not suffering anymore, etc." I honestly didn't know what I could have said to give her any comfort. I don't even want to think about how I would feel if Adrian goes before I do. My aunt and my cousin see her daily, and she's in a nursing home, so she's not truly alone, but still.....
Adrian and I are considering buying memberships to the Rec Sports complex at work. It's expensive but no more so than a gym membership and you can go to any of the gyms on campus, plus use the pools. They have Faculty/Staff rooms, so you don't have to mix with the students. There's nothing that makes you feel that working out is pointless like a hot 19-year-old with a perfect body walking past you to the weight room. I'd rather be in a room with the lumpy and old, like myself. We can get a free 7 day pass to see if it would work for us, and my pain situation might be affected negatively. I'll have to see.
I talked to my aunt last night. She just lost her husband last month and it broke my heart to hear her crying on the phone. She got married for the first time when she was 13 (country people used to do that back then) and she married her second husband almost immediately after the first one died, so she's never been alone her whole life. It has to be a terrifying prospect for her. It seemed like everything I said to her was cliched; "he's not suffering anymore, etc." I honestly didn't know what I could have said to give her any comfort. I don't even want to think about how I would feel if Adrian goes before I do. My aunt and my cousin see her daily, and she's in a nursing home, so she's not truly alone, but still.....
Adrian and I are considering buying memberships to the Rec Sports complex at work. It's expensive but no more so than a gym membership and you can go to any of the gyms on campus, plus use the pools. They have Faculty/Staff rooms, so you don't have to mix with the students. There's nothing that makes you feel that working out is pointless like a hot 19-year-old with a perfect body walking past you to the weight room. I'd rather be in a room with the lumpy and old, like myself. We can get a free 7 day pass to see if it would work for us, and my pain situation might be affected negatively. I'll have to see.
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