Slow day, highlighted by a slow run. Everything else felt quiet, sleepy, uneventful in every way. This leaf pile, my first leaf pile find of the season, had more charisma (and color!) than anything else I saw in the wide world today. Maybe everyone and everything is taking a deep breath and so the leaves think they’re going to take this moment and take advantage.
It was just getting started. An ambitious little collection of decaying matter. And naturally occurring, too, gathering, as it was, behind a car in a parking lot.
Most likely it got scattered when the driver backed over them a few minutes later.
It brings back memories of racks and blisters. Everyone is having a little moment right now, I’m sure. Go ahead and work your way through that. We’ll wait.
…
Better? Ready? Good.
Hey, could be worse. You could have to rake these leaves:
I saw that on my evening run. It was almost precisely at my turnaround point. And, after that, on one of the neighborhood trails:
And then these berries, just at the 5K point.
It was my first run in two weeks. My first 5K since May. But it was too nice and warm this afternoon and I’ve been too sedentary the last few days and anything worth doing is worth overdoing, right? It will probably feel like it tomorrow morning, too.
Phoebe was a happy model for today’s addition to Catober. She’s hanging out in the hallway. She likes to sit there and wait for you to walk by so she can stretch out and demand pets. She’s a cute little highway robber of belly rubs.
There’s a little post it note on the door behind her. It’s for Poseidon, who is always trying to get into my home office and cause trouble. The sign is meant to keep him out. That’s why it is posted at cat-eye level. It does not.
We have a debate about whether he can read the sign, or if the verbiage is too sophisticated. He’s obviously just ignoring the sign. Phoebe can come into my office occasionally, because Phoebe is a good girl.
Here’s a talk show from last night. They talked about sports. Sports are what they talked about. Baseball, and it’s 4,725 post season teams, deserve attention, and you can get most of it right here:
And another set of students were hard at work in the studio this morning. They had a great guest and a fun time and things went smoothly for them. And someone has finally added a calendar feature to their programming:
After the show was over and we wiped down all of the consoles and the cameras and everything else everyone touched, they all went about their days, going … wherever they all go. I went to my office and whiled away the day worrying over a To Do List.
I think I cut it down to something manageable for next week. I have an important letter of recommendation to write and dealing with a bunch of file transfers. And about a half dozen meetings already on the books, and some voiceovers to work through and some audio editing to tend to and whatever other things that haven’t appeared yet … It’s nice to know a little about what’s in store next week, is what I’m saying.
Take this weekend, for example. It’s gray and damp and cool this evening and so there wasn’t much to that. There’ll be lunch and a bike ride tomorrow and then a video chat and football. I’ll do some housework. Sunday there’ll be breakfast and looking out the window and a lot of reading and maybe some football and that’s the weekend. It’s nice to know a little about what’s in store. One day the weekend schedule will change itself. I won’t know how to act. They all kind of run together at this point, is what I’m saying.
But things are just grand. Everyone here is healthy. The cats are happy. Dinner was good. I get to sleep in tomorrow.
Nice selfie, huh? I went to the morning show’s shoot this morning, and then got called into a meeting right after taking this picture. By the time the meeting was over, the morning show taping had wrapped. These students are getting pretty proficient at all of this. Even the engineer, who works every day with professionals, complimented them about that. It’s a business that requires quality at speed, and they’re putting them together nicely.
I spent the afternoon in an audio booth, where I’m producing a tutorial. I did not demonstrate speed today, but I have some nice shots for the eventual package.
Got a nice shot of the Canada geese skipping town today, too.
Just go ahead and go. Quitters.
Sports! Here are some videos the sports gang produced last night. There’s footage of an intramural home run derby because, while we don’t yet have formal varsity sports, everyone is pulling together programs as best they can. It’s kind of charming in a way.
And here’s the talk show for the week, where you will get a history lesson, indeed:
Need some financial advice? Here’s a financial Quick Hit:
It’s easier to do that if you think of all of this as a public relations crisis rather, you know, a global health crisis, one which we might just be failing at most miserably.
Not ideal.
"Between 42% and 51% of all school employees in the US met the CDC's criteria for either having an increased risk or potentially increased risk for Covid-19 infection, researchers with the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality found."https://t.co/8JwXjt6hmB
Funny shows are funny. IUSTV’s Not Too Late has a new look and a new host. Here’s the first episode. It grabbed me straight away. I’m curious to see where they go with it from here:
The NBA playoffs are a sport where people throw a ball through a horizontally oriented hoop for points and fame. Learn more on the sports talk show, The Toss Up.
And Big Ten football is now officially coming back. The anchor is a guy I had in a freshman class a few years back.
I convinced a handful of his classmates into trying IUSTV, and they’re all still there. It’s pretty great.
Friday / Twitter — Comments Off on Some Twitter things 11 Sep 20
I think of @laurnsmith's notes about sports-as-culture moments and watch Piazza vs Karsay in the moment and I wonder.
How heavy the burden? How light the game? How profound their understanding, right then, of the joy, the relief, the by God American normalcy they were providing? https://t.co/5DD35ICLk7
