1) After Friday I will be pseudo-incommunicado. The laptop I have is owned by my work, and Friday is my last day of work. They also gave me a cel phone when I started here and that goes away as well.



2) There should be one last Dim Sum before I go. I will be at China Pearl on August 26th @ 1pm. I'll attempt to get e-mail access to send ya'll a reminder.



3) Yes, I have been abusing restaurant week and I'm verilly behind on updates/posts/fooding. Given point the first, I've been trying to play musical data and put things on CDs, download those things I want, transfer data to SDcards, convert things to LRF (sony reader) and a myriad of other things that require computers to do. Foodie Posts will go over at the other blog. If I manage to write them before I leave. If I do, I will post a link here. Just trying to aggregate food posts on a non-lj mechanism. If food isn't your fetish, carry on.



4) Errat: Running has been going well when I manage to make it out. Running in a rainstorm on the river is awesome. Climbing hasn't happened in awhile, but 5.8- is becoming solid. I might make a 5.8 gracefully before I leave after all.



4.1) I found yards and yards and yards of modal (or at least something very tactilely similar) at Sew Low (cambridge street, E cambridge/somerville). I bought most of it, but they are getting more in this week. Yum. Modal.

"Who, if I screamed, would hear me among the angelic orders? And even if one of them suddenly pressed me against his heart, I would fade in the strength of his stronger existence. For Beauty is nothing but the beginning of Terror that we're still just able to bear, and why we adore it is because it serenely disdains to destroy us. For Beauty's nothing but beginning of Terror we're still just able to bear, and why we adore it so is because it serenely disdains to destroy us. Every angel is terrible. And so I repress myself, and swallow the call-note of depth-dark sobbing. Alas, who is there we can make use of? Not angels, not men and even the noticing beasts are aware that we don't feel very securely at home in this interpreted world."



Duino Elegies (First Elegy)

---Rainer Maria Rilke

Caliban:

Be not afeard, the isle is full of noises,

Sounds, and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.

Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments

Will hum about mine ears; and sometime voices,

That if I then had waked after long sleep,

Will make me sleep again, and then in dreaming

The clouds methought would open and show riches

Ready to drop upon me, that when I waked

I cried to dream again.

----William Shakespeare, The Tempest 3.2.133



(Shakespeare on the Common is performing this week Midsummer Night's Dream :)

1) Hooray. Managed (barely) a V1 I was futzing with. Hooray x_hacker is converted to climbing :) Aieee. Two days of climbing in a row. Aieee.



2) Hooray, lens popped/slid/migrated out over the course of rem sleep. Booo, it woke me up with I felt the jabbing in my lower lid (this led to some strange nightmares) Sleep after was fussy at best.



3) Hah! Whole Foods Singles Scene (Missed connections ish)menupagesboston = Awesome. I usually hear about the events before they post them, but some of them are new :) (mostly because I don't scan the Globe, Herald, or other newspaper types) - Funny things about the WF CEO as well. Wonder how their stock is doing since that became 'public'.



4) TBD: Climbing next week. Those of you that I know climb will be receiving an e-mail. If you don't see one, ping me. I'll be working on technique by and large, maybe push myself and try to conquer a 5.8... damn my shortness

I think... I have a contact embedded under my eyelid..



I've been doing the ortho-k lenses, the kind you wear at night and flatten your cornea - correcting near-sightedness. The left one has always been a bit..floaty for some reason. I blink, it moves. Generally, when sleeping, not so much an issue.



This morning I couldn't find the lens. As in, it wasn't on my cornea. I thought maybe it fell out. I do rub my eyes on occasion in my sleep.



Except that I can feel..something... in the upper, near the browbone, very top, area of my eyelid. I twitch my eye and it goes *scrapescrape* and once or twice this morning *STAB* but when I pull my eyelid every which way I can't see it in the mirror. It's bright yellow, so ya'd think... I'm told it (might) work itself out normally, that a contact going 'behind' your eye is an urban mythos.



But damn is it uncomfortable.



Just thinking how uncomfortable it might get if it slides into 'place' while climbing tonight, eagh.