The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering the prisons. - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
tHuRsDaY, aPrIl 23, 2008 // post #72
In the morning, the sun is with us.
Spring and early light have settled in. It’s been awhile, but I’ve been noticing the traffic by my place … I was itchy to tell ye something, say a thing or two, but I lost the camera. These are test shots with the new snapper (Finepix Z 100). Without an arty-photoshop-tweak I’ve got little to show for the effort. Adjust curves, if ya know what I mean.
ahem.
In the morning I am often early, busy; marking papers, putting on clean clothes that (intend) to stay clean (whiteboard markers notwithstanding), making tea in a thermos, listening to cbc radio1, maneuvering my bicycle off the narrow concrete ledge and down in the elevator, 19 floors to the street … going to school.
This is my shared-cublicle. I have -in a (non-unionized/sessional-meat) manner of speaking- joined the cubiclean horde, and yet; i can only report a near *gonefulness *(shakespeare coined by the dozen and so may all of us) of all dead air and the total surrounding of the heart with blooming. I rather like the austerity of my bench – relief consists of a postcard repro. from a ginormous travelling show of Cuban art (still) at the Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal, a cartoon that really tickles my heel, a multiverse of many-coloured, felt-tipped pens and tea. Mint.
My deskmate provides the tissues which I think is pretty nice. Just being there – as groups of people from everywhere on earth study a language together and speak it in common -is- amazing.
I’m in love.
Pictures of lolcatz – even sans caption – are cheap ‘n’ easy sure shots. Hence, two (only somewhat) enhanced snaps of Myshkin. Myshkin is Russian for mouse, apparently. Funny what irony you may miss when you read The Idiot in translation.
I don’t think this camera is going to work out, although it had some pretty sw-eeet features, chief among them being the smile filter.
Biometrics, baby – weeeee-iiii-rd science.
We’ve all met people who seem unable to respond to one smiling face at a time, nevermind a camera that fits in the palm of my hand, reads as many as ten faces at once and detects when they are smiling and only then – snap!
If I owe you a long letter – and you KNOW who you are – please, forgive me. I’m one step away from “send”.
I love you.
I hope that green that only spring brings you ~didn’t/doesn’t~ pass you by.
Don’t be shy … we can talk here:
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HI~ Happy labor day~
I had a crush on your cat…
He? or she?? anyway very adorable and awesome~
and is that your desk which you prepare many thing for students? That’s why it is a little mess~~~
Just kidding^_^ you are so dadicated and enthusiastic.
See you~
Hi Ryan
Happy labour day to you also, my friend! It’s easy too fall in love with pictures of my friend Myshkin, as he is quite a handsome brute, but I must tell you what a lot of trouble he causes with his taste for chewing on things he shouldn’t!
No one can leave a pair of laced shoes out on the floor overnight unless they want to find them chewed through in a dozen places by morning! He had a very dangerous habit of chewing through wires and cords which had us rather worried for awhile. He seems to have given up that particular snack but not before he had a very long chew on the power cord for my laptop!
Recently, he took up chewing on the heels of all the nice shoes I bought for work. Sigh.
On the other hand, he is a very friendly ‘person’. He also loves to play “fetch” just like a lot of dogs do, and it makes me wonder if he might be a bit of a dog in a cat’s body… lol …who knows?
You should see what my desk(s!) at home look like! Yikes! As we say in English; “Life is messy… or …You’ve got to break some eggs to make breakfast.”.
People who enjoy the learning process as much as I do make my job a lot more like fun than work. Thank you all for that.
Thanks for checking in
~r
hi robin ,i like your blog and your cat
is myshkin a russian name or english name ? there is a word in turkish , miskin, and it means ”lazy” in english.where did you find cat’s name? i just wondered.
your like your photos ,they’re so natural , but i think your pictures better than photos.see you again;)
i want to improve my comment !!!!!!!!!!
bye
i like your photos
Dear Helen
Don’t worry about your grammar here, just do your best to express yourself. You did fine!
I am very interested to hear about this word in Turkish – ‘miskin’ = ‘lazy’! After I named my cat Myshkin (after a character in a Russian novel which I read in English translation) my Russian friend explained to me that it means ‘mouse’!
In one language he is lazy and in another he is mouse! I think that’s very true to his unique personality. When he goes off to sleep in my clothes he reminds me of a mouse and as we all know, house cats can be very lazy, so it’s a perfect name!
Thank you for stopping by and taking the time to say hello! Any painter is happy to hear someone say they like their paintings better than their photographs, so thank you for that!
See you soon …
Robin
hi again;) Robin i forgot to say something.turkish people use ”miskin” for cats!you know,cats are generally lazy .so,i think you’ve found a very good name
have a nice weekend