It’s my TV night, so I’m making this a quickie. I’m completely moved out but not completely moved in. I’ve boxes and boxes yet to unload, and I’d be done by now if not for all of H.E.’s still unpacked boxes surrounding mine. We’ve had a tough time finding good restaurants around our new neighborhood. The first two we tried were awful, so bad that I seriously considered writing up some restaurant reviews just so I can lambaste their food…
The second half of the move happens today. I owe many people a response of some kind, and I just want everyone to know that I’ll be working on that in the next week or so. Moving is always hard, but this move is slightly more difficult than the average move. We’re moving from two places into one, and then we’re moving stuff to storage as well. On the bright side, my jeans haven’t ripped. Then again, the move isn’t…
I feel lucky that I’m not affected by the wildfires in Southern California, but even without all the local news coverage I can tell that they’re really, really bad this year. For one reason, the warm, dry wind is relentless. It’s very normal for this time of year; the hot air that rises from the desert swoops down over the mountains and blows hot across the southland. But it’s very strong this year, with winds gusting to hurricane forces, about…
Of all the people I ever went to school with, I’m probably the easiest person to find—this, despite the fact that I share my name with a lot of other women. I haven’t married yet or changed my name, so people can still search for me using my “maiden” surname, and I’m the first to pop up on a Google search for “April Martinez”. It’s easy because I’m everywhere on the net. I have this blog. I have my work…
Bah. OK. I first saw this phenomenon on Kat’s blog, where she refers to this article. Later, an author in a Yahoo! group links to another article on it and yet another blog post on it. The phenomenon? This animation: …and all the internet discussions about it. I don’t understand the phenomenon, really, because it all seems so fairly simple to me. I don’t really believe that it indicates which side of the brain anyone uses, but perhaps that’s because…