We're Having a Heat Wave, la la la!

It is still hotter than blazes here — though looking at the weather map, all of the US is in the reds and oranges. Note to self: must go see Al Gore's greenhouse effect film.

While, for me, sun is infinitely preferable to rain or snow, the heat is causing several difficulties in my activities. For example, have you ever tried to paint furniture where the paint dries before you can sneeze? The dresser has been sanded, and I managed to get a first coat of paint on early in the morning. At sunset I'll apply a second coat, and do the distressing. And thus, one dresser done.

The heat forcing me indoors has done wonders for Luminarium, though. I've updated, fixed broken links, added new ones, created more pages, written bios, etc. I had to take a break from Ford's 'Tis Pity She's a Whore — play texts take forever to edit and I had enough of this one for now — and moved on to Sir Philip Sidney. I decided to add the Sidney Psalms, since there is yet no free e-text of them online. I got ten of them done, and then had to take a break from those. The Hallelujah Chorus was singing too loudly in my head. And so, I added Sidney's "Dialogue Between Two Shepherds" and Sir John Davies' "Gullinge Sonnets" instead. I also still need to finish the Rochester bio, so textus interruptus seems to be my motto of the month. But hey, I did get a lot done, too. And wasn't it Leonardo Da Vinci himself, who worked on a million projects at once, and had completion issues? :P

I've finished watching both Season 1 and Season 2 of LOST. I got fairly hooked on it. Can't wait for the next season to begin. I've also gotten in an insane amount of HGTV (God, I love home improvement shows, they're like porn to me) and a fair amount of various make-over shows where ghoulish-looking unfortunates, who are used to being chased by angry villagers with pitch forks, get turned into attractive princesses and princes. The Princess Fiona in me digs that molto.

And tonight is my favorite reality-crack, Project Runway, wheeee! Speaking of which, Madeline and I are going to meet Austin Scarlett from Project Runway season 1 (remember the blonde who made gorgeous gowns à la Esther Williams, 1945?). Turns out that the judges, who told him to stop making gowns and diversify, were off the mark. Austin, who both Madeline and I were dreaming would make our Oscar gowns for us, was hired to design wedding gowns for Kenneth Cole. They showed them on TV, and they were dreamy! On Saturday, we have an appointment with him at Kleinfeld's in Manhattan! Lalalaaaaa! Madeline will make a beautiful bride.

After our little 'Sex and the City' tour of the good ol' Apple, we're coming back to PA and hanging out for the weekend. I'm thinking ice cream, cosmos, movies, maybe minigolf? Not necessarily in that order :P

I'm off. I'll probs give you all a little book report on what I've read in the past few weeks, but gentlemen be warned: being that it is summer, my tastes turn to chick lit in addition to the usual "real literature" and scifi/fantasy.

Since writing down that title for the post, Irving Berlin's "Heat Wave" has been playing on my 'internal soundtrack' (i.e., inside my head) so I thought I'd add a little clip here of Marilyn Monroe performing the same in "There's No Business Like Show Business" (1954), courtesy of YouTube:



Later Gators!
~A