If I had time, I would practice etudes until they sounded like actual music. On piano, viola, and guitar. And drums. Do they make rock-band drum etude books? They should. I would buy one.
And I would read every Newbery Medal-winning book, and the Newbery Honor ones too.
Bake foccacia, rewind, first grow some rosemary and then bake foccacia.
Do something loving for my brother and sister.
Get my brakes fixed.
Buy a coffeepot that doesn't spill when you pour it.
Find out who the heck thought of putting tea leaves over a smoky fire to create the oddity known as Lapsang Souchong. What the weirdness. I was not expecting that.
Make beautiful things out of shiny threads and rich colors and bits of polished wood.
Do taxes.
Organize papers.
Dance lots more.
Learn to actually sing.
Derail the current political train that's speeding towards some extremely bad legislation about illegal aliens. This is going to stink, people, and it's unchristian.
Actually learn Spanish.
As I remember, it is still possible to cure lapsang souchong leaves at home over a grill using a cast iron pan. Maybe this isn't recommended. Definitely, you need to do this outside. I might have seen it in Hints from Heloise
Posted by: jb at 03.30.06 16:31Hear, hear! Lapsong Souchong is only good for one thing in my book: practical jokes.
And on a more serious note, the bills in both the House and the Senate are AWFUL. What can we do? Students are protesting in Houston, and there are no English-speaking media people covering it. Does no one care? Where are the churches?
Posted by: bob at 03.30.06 21:03I think that old smoked tea oddity must have been the creation of Sang Sou Chong, and his friends didn't care for it so they calle'd it "The Lapse in Taste of Sang Sou Chong," and that name was shortened so that somebody would buy it.
And bob, one thing we can do is blog about the immigration bill - if your sources are all Spanish, translate them on your blog. I'd read it, and would tell others about it. We could also stage our own protests, perhaps on the Times Free Press doorstep or something like that, but we'd need to be well informed on the bill.
Posted by: Joel at 03.30.06 23:07I think that old smoked tea oddity must have been the creation of Sang Sou Chong, and his friends didn't care for it so they calle'd it "The Lapse in Taste of Sang Sou Chong," and that name was shortened so that somebody would buy it.
And bob, one thing we can do is blog about the immigration bill - if your sources are all Spanish, translate them on your blog. I'd read it, and would tell others about it. We could also stage our own protests, perhaps on the Times Free Press doorstep or something like that, but we'd need to be well informed on the bill.
Posted by: Joel at 03.30.06 23:12Obviously boys don't know how to appreciate tea...I LOVE lapsang souchong. Hmmm...Brings back Oxford tea shop experiences...
Posted by: funke at 03.31.06 03:25I'm not a boy. I appreciate tea, just not tea that smells like beef jerky. Actually Joel took the 23 bags of it that I didn't drink, because he and his dad like it sometimes.
Posted by: tuggy at 03.31.06 12:00Actually, I quite enjoy lapsang souchong. I also enjoyed making up a story of its origin.
Posted by: Joel at 03.31.06 18:10I know, Joel. I also enjoyed being momentarily essentialist. :)
Posted by: funke at 03.31.06 18:36Happy Easter, friend. He is risen. I love you.
Posted by: funke at 04.17.06 00:43