Month: August 2006

This Week

Monday: Went to Grimaldi’s and Brooklyn Ice Cream Factory with the gang. Mmm. 😉

Eight planets or 12? I prefer 8 – why keep counting Pluto? What coincidence that I’m in the middle of reading up on the planets and the astronomers are trying to figure out what to do with our solar system. And, why are astronomers sounding like lawyers in trying to define “planet”? Hmm.
Judge Richard Posner posits that USA needs its own MI-5, in light of how that British organization foiled the terrorist plot in Britain. Hmm.
Ming-Na (formerly known as Ming-Na Wen), soon to be on a new FOX show. Well, not sure if it’s a show I’d watch (kind of like her last (very quickly cancelled) show was so not a show I watched at all) – these serial thrillers think they’re all jumping on the 24 bandwagon.

Dragon Boat Bites Back

Recovering from a rather freak injury Sunday when P and I went to the Dragon Boat festival in Flushing Meadow Park. P got a hold of some chicken and rice (the Carribean kind, not Hainan ‘chicken rice’), and I was chomping down on the drumstick when part of the bone fractured and ended up embedded in the roof of my mouth. It took about half an hour to get the bleeding to stop, but P’s medical training came to the rescue.

It was pretty sore for the last couple of days, but it’s now starting to heal up. I have to eat soft foods for the moment — I tried to have some salad today, and you wouldn’t believe how painful ribs of lettuce can be when it hits the wound. Using a straw can be a bit of a problem, because in order to position the straw to not hit the injured area, it sometimes ends up squirting the liquid into my lungs. I’m seeing the dentist anyway this Saturday, so I’ll let him look at it. At least it’s not hurting too much anymore.

The Dragon Boating wasn’t that good this time either. I’ve never seen this happen before in competition, but the referees actually called a foul. Someone in the middle lane dropped their oar in the water. That immediately caused the boat to do a U-turn because of the uneven stroking. One of the refs raised a red flag, then turned their boat around to recover the oar so they could row back to shore.

Sun-Sun-Sun…

Terrific weather!

Prof. Jed Rubenfield, constitutional law expert, is going to have a novel out. Hmm. I still haven’t read Prof. Stephen Carter’s The Emperor of Ocean Park (which I heard was pretty good), but the idea of law profs going fiction – well, I can’t help being just a little intruiged. Of course, this assumes that the book is any good. I mean, your legal writing may be top notch, but… Well, we’ll see.

NY Times’ Alessandra Stanley writes on how tv’s coverage on terrorism has become normalized. That may be true, in light of the recent news (and considering how in depth all the newspapers have been too, I might add), but I’m almost glad I don’t have cable, lest I’d be even more inundated on the news stuff.

Oh, and I just love that Entertainment Weekly cover of the fall movie previews issue this week.  The movies don’t excite me very much yet, but the cover – the new James Bond, Daniel Craig – hot!  Plus some gag “covers” of the past James Bonds (although, I believe at least two of the past Bonds were within the lifetime of EW – Brosnan anyway, not sure about Dalton).  Cool!