Aside from all I’ve said this week about blogging being about community, and connection, and empowerment through information sharing, and giving people a voice, there’s this whole other aspect to blogging that I love. <\/p>\n
Blogging is a hell of a great way to waste time. Link surfing has to be one of my favourite guilty pastimes. Most of the time I have no idea how I ended up where I ended up, but getting there is half the fun.<\/p>\n
Some of my favourite recent discoveries came from the Salon <\/a>article I blogged <\/a>on earlier this week, about the changes to Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret<\/em>. From the Salon article, I clicked through to Book A Day<\/a>, an incredibly ambitious project to read and post a review about a great work of literature every single weekday.<\/p>\n She takes her definition of “great work of literature” from the next click on our tour, Robert Teeter’s list of Great Books<\/a>. It’s an amazing series of indices and lists that correlate the greatest works of Western, Eastern and World, and Contemporary literature.<\/p>\n And although I found that a little too much to digest all in one go, I found Time Magazine’s list of 100 best English-language novels <\/a>from 1923 to the present much more accessible. And within that, I found that they have reproduced the original Time reviews to many of the 100 novels, which I found extremely cool. There’s the 1925 review of The Great Gatsby<\/em><\/a>, and the 1962 review of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest<\/em> <\/a>(but you have to subscribe to read the entire review.)<\/p>\n I mean, no wonder I can’t get any housework done!<\/p>\n And speaking of housework, here’s the latest update of the Housework Challenge 2006<\/a> (it sounds more important with a fancy title, no?)<\/p>\n On Tuesday, Beloved spent the usual half hour doing morning clean-up and meal prep for the boys. We both worked all day, and then went out for dinner with my folks (woo hoo!) When we got home, I spent half an hour pretending to play trains with Tristan while I actually tidied the playroom formerly known as the dining room, and Beloved spent the same half hour doing the cat litter and taking out the trash. Can I count bath time as a household chore? If so, and I’m guessing you won’t let me get away with it, I scored an extra 20 minutes there.<\/p>\n Yesterday was pretty much a write-off. I didn’t go to work before the TV thing<\/a>, so Beloved and I shared the morning wrangle at the usual 30 minutes or so for breakfast, clean-up and general disaster-recovery. Since I had the car, after work I picked up the boys and drove over to Quebec to pick up Beloved at work, and by the time we got back into town and stopped for a hamburger and picked up a few groceries (30 minutes!), it was bedtime for the boys and we were all too tired to do anything but a cursory pick-up.<\/p>\n Tuesday\/Wednesday totals: Aside from all I’ve said this week about blogging being about community, and connection, and empowerment through information sharing, and giving people a voice, there’s this whole other aspect to blogging that I love. Blogging is a hell of a great way to waste time. Link surfing has to be one of my favourite guilty … Continue reading “Link love, books and housework”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Beloved: 1h 45 mins
Me: 1h 15 mins<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"