Apparently a lot of websites produced their own joke this year to commemorate April 01. My favorite has to be the one at NPR where some writer reviewed a brand new composition called "B-flat" by a fictional sub-minimalist composer named Simon Fluebel. I just love how the hilariously elaborate praise highlights the ridiculous simplicity of the one-note composition.
The book (My Sister Therese by Celine Martin) that I ordered last year from Catholic book center at the local mall has finally arrived. (Sadly the book center has closed down since.) To my embarrassment it was personally delivered once again to my office here by the Carmelite seminarian who attended to the book center. Although it has been four months since he said I would receive it, I understood that he had been away at the seminary since December and only just got out for vacation. To think that he had to come all the way from his hometown to bring it himself!
I have just discovered something better than those eagle webcams on the Internet: there is a bird's nest being built among the branches of the Song of India plant just outside my sister's bedroom window. What a great opportunity to do some birdwatching from the comfort of our home! We have seen a small brown bird with an orange throat come once in a while to perch nearby but we can't tell if there are eggs already in the nest. But I guess we have to be as unobtrusive as possible as we do our birdwatching through the window lest we scare away the parents and cause them to abandon the nest.
