Power Outages
Apr. 18th, 2007 12:07 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
polychrome_penLovely...just lovely. I came home today at 5:30 to find our house/neighborhood completely without power. This is not unusual - the slightest breeze usually sends our subdivision back into the Stone Ages for several (or many many) hours. And this is the second time in two or three weeks. Not to mention that it's happened both times on Tuesday - the day most crucial for me to use a computer (so I can review pictures taken during Anatomy Lab for a quiz the next day).
So we went to Panera Bread and got dinner and then spent a little time in Target before returning (around 8:30 pm) to - guess what? - a dark neighborhood. Had I not been troubled by the large problem this would again cause me, I would have spend more time outside enjoying the night sky free of light pollution. However, I was seriously unhappy when, by 9:00, the power had not come back on. This forced me to have to drive all the way back to school to use a computer there (and I couldn't even use a real computer in the library; I had to check out a laptop!). Suffice to say I'm a little miffed that the only Tuesday I didn't have to go back to school for my Organic Chemistry Workshop ended with me returning anyway.
Oh, and suddenly it's back to winter temperatures too. Strange.
In other musings, I recently finished the audiobooks of Garth Nix's "Abhorsen" Trilogy. I definitely can't wait to sink my teeth into Across the Wall now! Those books were some of the best I've "read" in a long time - they actually really made me look forward to my daily commute so that I could find out what happened next! If you haven't read them yet, I highly recommend them - they even got me doodling a little bit of fanart based on them (a true rarity among books!). Maybe I'll post it sometime soon.
Also, if you haven't seen Meet the Robinsons yet, stop stalling and go to your nearest theater! It's the best thing to come out of Disney's animation department (sans Pixar achievements, of course) since Treasure Planet. Not only is a funny and well-written, but sentimental in the same way that the older Disney movies are. A very worthwhile and fulfilling story plus a fantastic villain (can anyone say Unicorn Binder?) round out some of the good things about this movie. So go see it. Now.
So we went to Panera Bread and got dinner and then spent a little time in Target before returning (around 8:30 pm) to - guess what? - a dark neighborhood. Had I not been troubled by the large problem this would again cause me, I would have spend more time outside enjoying the night sky free of light pollution. However, I was seriously unhappy when, by 9:00, the power had not come back on. This forced me to have to drive all the way back to school to use a computer there (and I couldn't even use a real computer in the library; I had to check out a laptop!). Suffice to say I'm a little miffed that the only Tuesday I didn't have to go back to school for my Organic Chemistry Workshop ended with me returning anyway.
Oh, and suddenly it's back to winter temperatures too. Strange.
In other musings, I recently finished the audiobooks of Garth Nix's "Abhorsen" Trilogy. I definitely can't wait to sink my teeth into Across the Wall now! Those books were some of the best I've "read" in a long time - they actually really made me look forward to my daily commute so that I could find out what happened next! If you haven't read them yet, I highly recommend them - they even got me doodling a little bit of fanart based on them (a true rarity among books!). Maybe I'll post it sometime soon.
Also, if you haven't seen Meet the Robinsons yet, stop stalling and go to your nearest theater! It's the best thing to come out of Disney's animation department (sans Pixar achievements, of course) since Treasure Planet. Not only is a funny and well-written, but sentimental in the same way that the older Disney movies are. A very worthwhile and fulfilling story plus a fantastic villain (can anyone say Unicorn Binder?) round out some of the good things about this movie. So go see it. Now.
