So I'm sitting here, minding my own business, listening to the Comcast classical channel when I look up and read that the piece currently playing is the "Capricio V in G Major" by a composer named Zelenka. I'm sure they mean this guy, not, you know, the almost as brilliant and long suffering buddy and occasional collaboration partner of the abrasive and ingenious Toronto composer....you see where I'm going with this. So where is Sheppard in this? WAIT! I know this one--he's an excon who gets a job as Rodney's assistant! 

And because I just returned from a funeral:

Spring and Fall, To A Young Child

--Gerard Manley Hopkins

Margaret, are you grieving
Over Goldengrove unleaving?
Leaves, like the things of man, you
With your fresh thoughts care for, can you?
Ah! as the heart grows older
It will come to such sights colder
By and by, nor spare a sigh
Though worlds of wanwood leafmeal lie;
And yet you will weep and know why.
Now no matter, child, the name:
Sorrow's springs are the same.
Nor mouth had, no nor mind, expressed
What heart heard of, ghost guessed:
It is the blight man was born for,
It is Margaret you mourn for.

Ahhh, new home. Breathe deeply the new-LJ smell. . .

So here I am. If you have wandered here after seeing a new name on your friends list, you should know that I am the lurker formerly known as North of Normal. I'm reinventing myself. Now I'm all flowery and non-lurky. Check me out.

Gave blood today, and found out something interesting: apparently, AB+ blood types are in high demand for donated platelets. Three different nurses commented on it, and all of them gave me advice on where to donate and handed out cards to the platelet donation place. It turns out that, although AB+ blood can only be donated to certain other types, platelets from AB+'s can be used by anyone. Go me.