Two Week Wrap-Up: Mar. 16 – Mar. 27
Hello again, procrastinators! This wrap-up will bring you up to speed on what’s been happening here at The Daily Procrastinator for the last two weeks. Normally, as you’ve noticed by now, I’m sure, there’s a weekly wrap-up in your email every weekend. Last weekend, that didn’t happen. I procrastinated. Surely you knew that was a possibility. TDP has been as busy as ever in the past two weeks, and this is your chance to make sure that you’ve read every tasty bit. Let’s take it one week at a time, shall we?
March 16 – March 20
The week began with two posts by TallGirl, addressing first the dust-covered rollerblades she discovered while cleaning her garage, and then the combined narcissism and bad PR decisions of A-Fraud.
After many, many hours of celebrating Irish heritage, BigRedPoet (who’s German and French Canadian, by the way) published Part 1 of the beer-fueled St. Patrick’s Day adventure, chronicling the daylight hours and early evening. Part 2, which is perhaps slightly less coherent, details the happenings of the late evening and pursuant VERY early morning. Because she’s such a helpful friend, TallGirl offered a few hangover cures for anyone whose St. Patrick’s Day celebrations got out of hand.
The week ended with both lasciviousness and laughs as TallGirl wrote about her recent hot upskirt experience, and the newest Procrastinator, Marmite, bemoaned the unfortunate truth that Snuggies are taking over the world.
This break between weeks is brought to you by a grumpy, land-based koala bear. His name is Jeff.
March 23 – March 27
TallGirl started the week by wondering how FaceBook can simultaneously inspire curiosity, nostalgia, and low-level retrograde anger. As someone whose face has not been booked, I’m tempted to go sign up, just to observe this curious phenomenon.
On Tuesday, BigRedPoet offered a review of the Elton John and Billy Joel concert that he and FlashCap attended in Houston. As it turns out, two straight men can attend such a concert without the benefit of female companionship and still have a GREAT time.
Wednesday’s post was drawn from a discussion thread about important childhood memories. Several of the Procrastinators offered interesting tidbits from their young lives. Check it out, and get to know your favorite Procrastinator just a little bit better!
On Thursday, FlashCap expressed disbelief and outrage at a remarkably ignorant news article written by an ESPN reporter and posted on the company’s website. You’ve got to read it to believe it. As FlashCap seethed over the incompetence of paid professionals, TallGirl realized that Spring (the wily bugger) had sneaked up on her while she wasn’t watching. When it jumped out and yelled, “Surprise!“, the resulting joy turned into a TDP post.
BigRedPoet discovered something disturbing on Friday. While he was procrastinating by watching YouTube videos, he discovered that the Starburst Berries & Cream commercial that he found so offensive the first time had been reborn in a techno-remix version. Yikes.
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Spring Is Here! Spring Is Here!
Ok, maybe this isn’t news to some of you, but I’ve had my head down with deadlines for two weeks. I just walked out of the house for the first time in — well, I can’t even tell you how long, really — and discovered that spring was here. Spring! Here! Now!
I’m a transplant to California, 10 years and counting, and while there are definitely benefits to this climate, I don’t tend to be overwhelmingly effervescent about my presence here. But today, everything was different. It’s 74 degrees and sunny. The skies are blue, the clouds white and wispy, the hills still green from the winter rains. The trees are in bloom. The air smells like flowers… at least for the 30 seconds before my nasal passages closed from allergies. But still! Spring!
But here are the two most exciting parts of my day:
1. Butterflies! Butterflies are on their migration path from south to north. There are hundreds of them filling the sky right now. Beautiful little butterflies, orange and black, fluttering through the air. Now, for me, seeing one butterfly is a nice treat, but imagine seeing them everywhere. They’re lovely! And if my iPhone had a faster shutter speed, I’d take a picture of them for you. Instead, you will have to settle for a generic (and far more beautiful) picture of a single painted lady butterfly.
Painted lady butterflies? Monarchs? I haven't seen one land, but the orange and black coloring seems to indicate one or the other.
2. Artichokes! Having grown up in the northeast, the idea of growing artichokes seems absurd. Yet I planted one small artichoke from a 3″ pot last spring, and by last June I had a harvest of 13 of them. This year, the plant is bigger and stronger than ever — about five feet high and six feet across already — and today it’s showing the first artichoke bud of the season! If that’s not a sign of spring, I don’t know what is, people!
My massive, mutant artichoke plant would dwarf this one, but this is still a good picture from Peoria Gardens.
I realize that I’ve been using a lot of exclamation points in this post, but my general enthusiasm for spring combined with the sheer suddenness with which I’ve realized that it’s here… well, I’m just overwhelmed!
So Happy Spring to everyone! Now, if you’ll excuse me, I’m going to go sit in a park and watch the butterflies.