You were expecting content after two and a half weeks of silence? No, it’s silly meme time (which is still more effort than the usual linkage).
Category: Blather
Via Charles Stross’ LJ, I found this Astronomy knowledge quiz. Since the link was posted, the quiz writer modified the results so it gives you the ratio of correct answers in each category rather than the precentage. So I got 5 of 5 background knowledge, 6 of 8 solar system, 6 of 6 stars, and 5 of 5 galaxies.
More interesting to me than the results is tracking down where I got my knowledge from. Come back here after looking at the quiz..
You can’t really picture a regular encyclopaedia‘s entry on Nubia to be prefaced with the words For the Star Wars planet, see Nubia (Star Wars)
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party girl
I hated you a bit this afternoon, she said, for having to give up this cool party, because I need to spend time with you, because I’ve been neglecting you.
No, go to the cool party, I said. Don’t deny yourself. Don’t resent me.
You sound, she said, like I do when I’m trying to convince someone to do something I really don’t want them to do.
Later I thought, well, she’s young and lively, and should go and enjoy herself among her peers, and I’m quoting Suzie of course.
She asked me to pick her up after the party (why hasn’t she called yet?) and I said sure, and she said that’s great, because she really hates leaving a party by herself and feeling so lonely, and I thought yeah, that’s why I hated parties, because they made me feel so lonely. It was like that when I was a kid, and it was like that when Suz was telling me that sure, she doesn’t mind if I go out and hang out with “my peers”, because those kids made me feel all old and just as lonely as when they were really my age.
So I took her to the party and felt jealous. And later, coming in to wait for her call, I realized that I hate her a bit for making me feel back in high school again, shut out of the cool kids’ party.
But I thought of dropping her off at the party, twenty minutes before, and how, in her costume ball dress and loose hair, uncut since her teens, she didn’t look like she was heading to some decadent and debauched orgy, she looked like a kid, heading for her class party, hesitant and lost as I felt inside.
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Life and Things
Gosh. I see I only posted once in February. Possibly I was busy?
Well, I did get rid of 3 cats (Cecilia went to Miller; Sumsum went to the SPCA in Tel Aviv; Misty went to a couple that Aya found, bless her). And I moved apartment, to Tel Aviv. So yep, it was busy.
Also, work was hectic at the time, as I recall. Worked one day from noon until 3AM, which was odd fun.
The new apartment is smaller than the apartment in Hod HaSharon (2 rooms instead of 4), and cheaper (about 800 NIS less, or even more when you factor in municipal taxes and common maintainence (Vaad haBaeat)). It’s on Derech HaShalom 93, 2nd entrance; or Amishav 24, 3rd entrance. In both cases, it’s apartment no. 5, and even though the place is right on the border of Givatayim, it’s definately in Tel Aviv, as I discovered this morning when I got a parking ticket on Amishav.
Is this a good neighbourhood? Well, it’s got some basic shops and an ATM nearby, but so did the place in Hod HaSharon. Noise is part traffic or neighbours dragging their furniture about. The dust is different, whiter and more abundant. Otherwise, not too many things to indicate that I am in The Big City, really.
This Monday we found that someone put Fox catalogs on each doorstep in Aya’s building; Coming home on Tuesday I found that in my building, someone left me (and presumably everyone else) an orange plastic bag with anti-withdrawal pamphlets and parsley from Gush Katif.
Yep, it’s that kind of neighbourhood.