What a week.
I'm happy that it's Friday tomorrow, oh-so-happy.
I have to say that I'm blessed with particularly wonderful classes this semester. Today I was previewing the optics unit with my grade tens by explaining how the image formed by your lens on your retina is upside-down; your brain flips the image so that you see things upright. That always tends to blow kids' minds, and I made the comment "optics is trippy" and instead of booing me for saying such a lame thing, they laughed. Because it is true: optics is trippy.
This eye/brain optical phenomenon always reminds me of a lyric from the song "A Lack of Color" by Death Cab for Cutie:
And when I see you
I really see you upside down
But my brain knows better
It picks you up and turns you around
I'm looking forward to this weekend. Jason and I are going to see Dan Mangan tomorrow night at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre. I'm excited. I saw him about a year ago at a church downtown, so it'll be nice to see him play a slightly larger venue. He was also great at Hillside over the summer. I look forward to hearing new material from his new album "Oh Fortune".
This is my favourite song from the new album. If you get past the symphonic cacophony for the first 45 seconds of this live performance, you'll get to the opening lines, which make me kind of want to waltz down the street. If my life was a movie, this song could be the soundtrack to the opening credits.
I have no plans on Saturday, which I'm pretty excited about. I haven't had a weekend day like that since... since... I don't know!
On Sunday afternoon, I'm going to an authors' round-table as part of The International Festival of Authors. Remember, I was invited to this via twitter. Actually, I think the night of the invite was my last bit of weekend downtime. I can't believe it's been almost a month since the invite, and I still haven't finished the book. That's not like me. I guess it shows just how truly busy I've been.
And with that, I think I'll read a bit, have some hot chocolate, and go to sleep a bit early. I need the rest.
Happy weekend all!
6 comments:
Okay that is a great song! It must have been really neat seeing him in a church!
I'm glad this week is over too - it's been one of those weeks. Anxious to get it behind me.
I didn't know about the blind spot in your eye that's right smack in front of us but our brains fill it in. I only learned about that about a year ago. How embarrassing.
I actually learned about that retina flipping things upside down when I was a kid from reading an article in Mad Magazine of all places. How messed up is that?
What a lovely song. That would make amazing opening credit music and for such a lovely show. Wonderful. I may have to see if M knows his music as I think he would adore this song.
Happy weekend, sweetie! I love that song :)
Cxx
That Death Cab line is one of my favorite lyrics! Have fun at your concert :)
I also like that song, thanks for sharing! I'll have to make a CD from all of your recommendations and call it "Christielli" LOL!
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