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May 12, 2007
Three (3) Things About The Next Two (2) Weeks
My content strategy for upcoming missions and international visits; now includes half-promises to write more frequently!
Aight.
My inability to maintain a regular content production schedule continues. After firing up a couple posts a couple weekends ago, I disappeared again. Sure, work's busy, and I went to New York for the weekend, but still. I need to try a little harder.
So here's the plan:
I'm on a(nother) work mission to distant locales for the next two weeks. My commitment for those two weeks is to produce three observations about each place that I visit. And by "visit" I mean spend 24 hours -- airports don't count, unless they're really really interesting. (I'm in the Amsterdam airport right now; it isn't terribly interesting.) At the very least, I'll do my best to put up some photos.
Sound bueno?
In the spirit of things, here are three (3) things about what I left behind in C@L:
(1) It figures that I leave the first week it's sunny: it was absolutely gorgeous in C@L this week. Ridiculous. I thought it was pretty nice in New York last weekend (what with it being warm but not yet humid and smelly), but we got our first taste of the summer in C@L this week. Wow. I don't mean to obsess too too much about the weather, BUT, it's kind of a big part of living in the greater Puget Sound area, and we take our sunny days pretty seriously. So of course the first week of sunshine means that I promptly leave the country. Sigh. Hopefully it'll be around when I return.
(2) What concerns me in my absence: speaking of spring, I got a little antsy about a month ago with the dreariness and decided to celebrate spring on my own. So I rolled up to Home Depot and bought some plants -- you know, new life, rebirth, renewal, all that. I needed a little spring at that point. So far I'm doing a pretty nice job (all three are still alive, and the basil seeds that I bought have turned into little plants(!)). I'm just hoping they don't die like the ones that got killed by my World Cup trip last summer. Friends in C@L: expect e-mails from me begging you to water my plants whilst I'm gone. Check.
(3) Okay, just one about Amsterdam: as a part of my long-term "Read all the non-biographical soccer books" project, I finally tore through Brilliant Orange: The Neurotic Genius Of Dutch Football on the flight to New York last week. So the deal with this book (that I've been trying to track down for years -- it wasn't published in the US) is that it tries to connect the particularly Dutch approach to soccer to some deep-seeded cultural roots in the Netherlands, including (ahem) Dutch architecture, painting, and the aftermath of WWII. Admittedly, I'm definitely not above over-the-top sports metaphors and explanations, but this one was a bit of a stretch. In its defense, I'll argue that it does remind me that Americans don't think enough about the various sporting cultures that produce teams and athletes, mostly because we tend to only pay attention to games we've invented. Anyhoo, you're welcome to my copy.
Off to gate E17 and the subcontinent. Did I mention I have no idea what time it is?
Oh, and before I forget, Happy Mother's Day, Mom.
Posted by thatkid at May 12, 2007 11:24 PM under
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