my public demands a new post

so, what is new with me? I'm in a new relationship with Netflix that is off to a good start (I'd steal Jon's concept of the one-sentence reviews in the sidebar of this blog, but who knows, he may resume writing his own any day now); I'm nearly 1/3 of the way through Anna Karenina after it has been gathering dust on my bookshelf for four years; I've acquired the long-overdue first sunburn of summer making way for a good tan; and the buzzer just went off on the dryer.