Miscellany

Upton Tea's Heirloom Tea Flowers tea is delicious--light and floral as you'd expect and somewhat sweet, with little of the astringency you expect from a green tea.

Kind of a funny article about the horse War Admiral no not him he's long dead War Emblem in yesterday's New York Times.  Apparently he is a very picky breeder and only a few mares are up to his standards.  It's not that he's not interested in mares at all, but he only likes a very few of them.  His connections are tearing their hair out over this because apparently his few offspring are all doing quite well, so his stud fees would be quite lucrative if only he were less discriminating and could be relied upon to mate with any mare.  But if all his offspring are doing well in training and on the track, shouldn't they just accept that the horse knows what he's doing and let him pick the mares as he's been doing all along?  Of course I know it can't work that way, but still, kind of funny, as I said.

Went to the dress rehearsal for Amira Jamal's recital last night, only I didn't do the dress part as I did not want to lug a costume around all day with me.  My first runthrough was eh and I stubbed the most painful of my toes (I tripped on the floor, doh).  Strangely, however, that seemed to release some of the tension in my foot and my second runthrough was much better and I'd be happy with that on Saturday for the show.

I really want to read "Tell Me Where it Hurts:  A Day of Humor, Healing and Hope in My Life as an Animal Surgeon" by Dr. Nick Trout, a veterinary surgeon at Angell Memorial.  I know he operated on at least one of my ferrets, I think he did Ronan's intestinal biopsy.  It's not a name you forget.  Hopefully the campus Barnes and Noble has it, if not I'll be ordering it.

Philip Pullman has a new book out too, Once Upon a Time in the North, about Lee Scoresby as a young man.  Yay!