I'm even dressed pretty today.

[hermionesviolin]

rivendellrose says today is the Solstice -- longest day of the year. That had completely slipped my mind. Beautiful day today, appropriately.

LJ's spellchecker suggests for "rivendellrose" ... "Fauntleroy's"

Mary Alice complimented me on my sandals -- gold braid from Target for like seven bucks.

I am getting my hair cut after work today. And I think I might have real food for dinner tonight. (And tackle the kitchenware some more.)

***

$16thou Millionaire question yesterday:
A cataract is what kind of natural formation?
[A] an ice floe
[B] a deep crevice
[C] a waterfall

zomg! Blue Faience Hippopotamus! Best children's book ever, and tragically out-of-print! "Past the third cataract..." Only reason I knew that answer.

Comments

[laynamarya.livejournal.com]

but that doesn't tell me what the answer IS...

[hermionesviolin.livejournal.com]

Sorry.

Waterfall.

I'll have to read that book to you someday.

[lunabee34.livejournal.com]

I knew the answer!

*is pleased*

[hermionesviolin.livejournal.com]

I'm impressed!

[mari4212.livejournal.com]

C. a waterfall.

There are some advantages to having a geologist as a father.

[hedy.livejournal.com]

me too. They're in the nile.

[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

I was going to say that I hope I didn't mess up the date (I do that sometimes), but NPR agrees with me, so hopefully...

And LJ's spellchecker suggests for "rivendellrose" ... "Fauntleroy's"
... Wow. That's just fabulous.

[hermionesviolin.livejournal.com]

Yup, The Blue Faience Hippopotamus takes place there.

[hermionesviolin.livejournal.com]

As does Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summer_solstice).

Isn't it, though?

[hermionesviolin.livejournal.com]

I can't remember if I knew your dad was a geologist.

We joke about it being All About the Rocks with my dad. Rock on (er, pun unintentional) cross-country trip to the Southwest, 11 days in Utah.

[laynamarya.livejournal.com]

Thank you! and yes, I'd love to see it; I adore children's books.

[(Anonymous)]

Right now I'm reading Richard Fortey's Earth: An Intimate History. It came highly recommended but so far it's not doing it for me.

I find myself reading things like "Continental crust on average is less dense (upper layer 2.7 gm/cc) than oceanic crust (greater than 3.0 gm/cc.)" and thinking, "Maybe I can turn that into a problem for when we do density, pressure, and buoyancy in physics next year. Help them see why continents are above sea level. Give them an idea of how the stuff they're supposed to be learning can actually be useful... But how would I do that?"