What I should be doing

[trochee]

I spent this fine summer evening with caracola and three of her friends, bowling and watching the Olympics on TV. We're the freekin' Norman Rockwell bowling league of Seattle: a couple of future professor/researchers, a doctor and a librarian.

This bowling trip was enough to inspire me to dig my old bowling shoes out and still get whipped. Ah well, practice makes perfect. But it's another reminder that there are many important things going on in my life that need repeating -- visiting with friends and other nice people is one.

I have to be at work too early tomorrow, so I must go to bed, but I will note here future topics I should really pursue:

• The Berlin and Kay papers on color naming
• The "ask me anything" post, as a target of perhaps more personal stuff
• Concerns about my family and the RNC

Comments

[isolt.livejournal.com]

I know entirely too many librarians these days to think that they are wholesome and harmless creatures. ;)

[trochee.livejournal.com]

Did I say "wholesome" somewhere?

I think not. Norman Rockwell wasn't painting Seattle in the 21st Century.

Nor were we acting appropriately. Despite having more years of education per capita (I'm pretty sure) than any other lane in the establishment, we were pretty fast and loose with the electronic scoring -- renaming each other whenever the victim would go up to bowl -- and the beer flowed, erm, freely.

[ex-caracola454.livejournal.com]

Ummmm, if you got whipped, then what did I get, Mr. *niceshoes*?

Yay for summer bowling! And smokin and drinkin and cussin!

[trochee.livejournal.com]

You got to beat Dr. John. Nice job, *ms twinkle?it*.

heh. Let's do that again. The U's bowling alley is closed during summer break now, but it's *cheap* and *convenient* once school starts again.

[ex-caracola454.livejournal.com]

I didn't even know there was a UW bowling alley! I second that emotion!

BTW, this is wicked and wrong, but funny:

http://badgas.co.uk/lynndie/