It was in the upper 70s Tuesday in the 80s yesterday. We have beautiful springs in Maryland but we pay for them with impressively humid summers. The last couple of summers and winters have actually been rather mild, so I know that Dame Nature is saving up something really memorable for us.
On the plus side, this year's Cherry Blossom Festival actually occured when the trees were flowering, instead of 3 weeks after. Our usual pattern here is to have all the Cherry Trees put out lovely, delicate flowers about the first week of March. As soon as they are all out and pretty (about the second week of March), we get the last cold snap with either sleet or snow or something else cold, white, and lethal to Cherry Blossoms. The Festival is then held the first week of April to a backdrop of bare, ruined choirs. But this year, no final cold snap, so lots of pretty trees for the tourists.
Somehow I know that we'll pay for that.
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"So, Leta, is it difficult to live your life so that whenever you need to illustrate a point, you have an anecdote from your personal experience?" No, not really.
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"On a break" is community theater for "spend more time with my family" which is politics for "unemployed." (Leta)
"If you want to help the American theater, don't be a performer -- be an audience." (Tallulah Bankhead)
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- Ful selden indeed
- Like finding a shiny dime
- Why is April 23rd different from all other nights?...
- Getting my ticket punched
- What is Leta humming?
- A note on my punctuation
- All worth it
- Turns out that the answer is "no"
- Holes in the brain
- April 18, 1906
- Weather Report
- Why is April 23rd different from all other nights?...
- Chad will understand
- Havering, thy name is Leta
- Thank Goodness it wasn't drugs ... or jazz and liquor
- I totally haver
- I knew it!
- Not as Southern as I thought
- My favoritest Shakespeare song *ever*
- Something Different
- No creepier than the rest of modern life, I guess
- Just a little heads up
- Why David won't be the very first person I thank w...
- Heading for the pokey
- Brush up your Shakespeare
- Just for Brett
- Outside of Google, possibly my best research tool
- How to torture English people
- Bitter - table for one!
- Because Bill is also a guy
- Solace
- Because Casey is a guy, too
- This can't be true
- Filling the Godzilla poetry gap
- Okay, I really *don't* need any more t-shirts
- Awake
- Embracing my inner priss
- The Quotable Me
- I want a Google Gulp!!
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1 comment:
Believe me, Leta, some of us are already paying heavily. I'm told the pollen count on Wednesday was a lethal 1100! To put that in perspective, those who aren't allergic start feeling the effects of breathing massive doses of pollen when the count hits 200 or 250. Those of us who are allergic start feeling it when the count is only 50 or 100. The other day I was sneezing so often, loudly, and for such long stretches (8 or 10 or more sneezes in a row) that my coworkers were starting to look a bit nervous!
Now if only we could get a proper rain, instead of this wretched drizzle, to wash some of that poisonous pollen out of the air...
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