“Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others are not; and that the two kinds are mostly oddly jumbled in everyday affairs.”
– Christopher Morely

Truthfully, my loves, nothing interesting has happened since the Anti-Harassment Seminar.  I’ve been wracking my brains for something to entertain you with but, alas, I’m coming up short.  Accept, instead, this humble offering of some of the things Google Reader has saved my sanity with this stupidly dull Friday afternoon.  Enjoy!

Fabulous friend Lauren – who writes a blog about buying and updating a “little farmhouse in the big city, which you should totally be reading – writes a post about water for Blog Action Day

Bobby Pin Blog – vintage style prettiness

Dress, Design, Decor – just what it sounds like

Fabulous friend Janssen reviews everything worth reading and occasionally expands your world with recipes, stories, and even photos of her completely lovable little daughter.

Need to chuckle?  Check out the sometimes silly, sometimes chic headgear of those crazy Aussies going to the races.

Do you love history?!  And I’m assuming you do, since we’re friends.  It would be a shame to lose you…anyway, check out The History Blog – with a new story everyday about something from the past being dragged into the present.  Estate sales at Chatsworth, shipwrecks being raised, or (recently) a lost Vivaldi manuscript turning up in Scotland.

Do you love medieval history?  Or at least funny tales, quips, and snarky tales of saints and sinners complete with Monty Python-esqe commentary and improbably illuminated manuscripts?  Read here.

Get thee to a nunnery!  Here’s a blog written by the sisters of a Stateside convent that will make you feel that the contemplative life might me more busy than you could handle.

Noble Pig – one of the best food blogs I’ve ever found, I inevitably start drooling on my keyboard whenever they post a new recipe.

And finally!   Every once and a while something comes into your life, usually through the efforts of a very good friend, that you had no idea existed but now that you do, you can’t live without:

My father used to retreat to his armchair sometimes and read Calvin and Hobbes comics by himself.  And within minutes this quiet but incessant giggle would be heard tiptoeing its way round the house.  It makes my mother and I crack up every time we hear it.  And, ladies and gentlemen, I have found my personal equivelent (although for me, it’s more like side splitting, lung busting bouts of uproarious laughter that must make the neighbors hate me).  Behold!  Hyperbole And A Half!

Have a lovely weekend, piglets!