Posted by Adrienne on November 30, 2008 under Doodles | 
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This time of year, there’s always a lot of cooking going on. Stewart is getting into the spirit of things by making something in a large cauldron and wearing a chef’s hat. I’m sure whatever it is he’s making, it’s going to be tasty!
Posted by Adrienne on November 29, 2008 under Books | No Comments
Bellwether by Connie Willis was a quick read. I might not have finished it, except that I would rather read for fun than write papers. So it was enough to keep my attention, but only because I was putting off something else.
Posted by Josh on November 26, 2008 under Photos | No Comments
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This is me being artsy. Oh, and it really is hard to go wrong taking pictures of waterfalls. I definitely like how the cave entrance frames the view outside. And I’m pleasantly surprised with the good balance of the contrast.
Unfortunately, I forget where exactly this was taken, but it was one of the many tunnels you can walk through that used to be part of the highway following Taroko Gorge.
Posted by Adrienne on November 25, 2008 under Arsenal, Soccer | No Comments
For 86 minutes on Tuesday, it looked like Arsenal might find a way to drop points to Dynamo Kiev. The Gunners kept creating chances, and then whiffing on the actual scoring. While a 0-0 draw isn’t the end of the world for Arsenal in Champions League, with the form they’ve been in recently, it seemed to me that they could cough it up at any minute, and go down by a goal or two. And another loss is definitely not what the side or the fans would even want to contemplate. There were empty seats at the Not-Highbury-Anymore Stadium, and that, more than anything, shows how poorly the side have been playing as of late. So, for 86 minutes, I was frustrated and anxious, expecting another disappointment.
The man next to me in the pub had just announced that Nicklas Bendtner was “absolutely worthless” (echoing my own thoughts) when a long pass from Fabregas was taken by Bendtner and put away in a corner of the net. It held up for the last few minutes, and now Arsenal are going on to the next stage in the Champions League. It was nice to see a win. Now, I hope that the Gunners can build on this success and grab another win on Sunday against Chelsea.
COME ON YOU GUNNERS!
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I’m old enough to remember a divided Germany and, very dimly, the Berlin Wall. But today’s world is rather different, so it is always interesting to read a book written during those decades of a divided Germany and a worldwide struggle between East and West. Stained Glass by William F. Buckley is one such story entrenched in the Cold War. It is full of secret agents, political intrigue and people talking to each other in code. I would compare it to a James Bond movie, except I’ve never seen a James Bond movie. So I’ll say instead that it is almost what I’ve always expected a James Bond movie to be, only with an American secret agent, and a larger vocabulary (I had to use a dictionary twice to figure out a word, when I don’t usually look up new words while reading, but rely on the context to give me the meaning).