I think Fall is finally here. I even wore a jacket today.
Then again, this being Maryland, it could be 90 next week.
Life and Pictures from Maryland -- Probably Some Korea Stuff Too
I think Fall is finally here. I even wore a jacket today.
Then again, this being Maryland, it could be 90 next week.
Han Kang has won the Nobel Prize for Literature.
I've only read The Vegetarian, but I enjoyed it. Be advised that it's incredibly dark.
"The colors of the autumn in the garden were now brown and black. I had learned to see the brown of dead leaves and stalks as a color in its own right; I had collected grasses and reeds and taken pleasure in the slow change of their color from green to biscuit brown. I had even taken pleasure in the browned tints of flowers that had dried in vases without losing their petals; I had been unwilling to throw away such flowers. On autumn or winter mornings I had gone out to see brown leaves and stalks outlined with white frost. Now the hand of man had been withdrawn from the garden; everything had grown unchecked during the summer; and I felt only the cold and saw the tall grass and the wet and saw black and brown. On these short walks in the ruined manor garden, going a little farther each time, past the aspens, then past the great evergreen tree, then approaching the big white-framed greenhouse, after all this time as solid and whole-looking as it had ever been, on these walks brown became again for me what it had been in Trinidad: not a true color, the color of dead vegetation, not a thing one found beauty in, trash."
-- V.S. Naipaul, The Enigma of Arrival
I drove past this place many a time (east side of Frederick) and finally stopped in. It's a weird location, and you don't really appreciate the beach shack vibe until you pull into the parking lot (only outdoor seating). I got, of course, the club sandwich and it was pretty good.
One thing I really like about substitute teaching so far is how it gets me travelling all around the county. This week I'm off to some pretty remote places, as the majority of my teaching has been close to or inside Frederick city proper. (I live on the west side of town.)
I need to take more pictures.
Put my MP3 player in the washer tonight and bricked it.
My short-term memory is crumbling to dust.
At least I didn't lose a cat during the dryer phase, but I did have to double-check.