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extremely random story of the moment for you . . .

right now it's 2:04 pm and i am ready to head out the door for a little bit of shopping, a few errands and one smoothy. but i can't. why? well, i have lost my keys. i think they are on the couch, maybe in between the cushions ( i threw my purse on the couch when i got home last night so they probably landed there) BUT kristine is asleep on the couch right now. she just got home from her morning of work i can't wake her up!! that would just be so mean . . . alas, i am stuck here until she wakes up and i can recover my keys.

i really need to start hanging them on the key hook when i get home.

salute!

Good morning, friend. Happy Monday!

I just wanted to post a little salute to creativity: le chaim! er, to creativity....I'm dreaming of a life of painting in Monmartre, or of running away to join a dance troupe, to live the life of Picasso's sad little saltimbanques...

Maybe I forgot to tell you: I had a lovely creativity-time in Writer's Group saturday~we painted and collaged our way through our current projects. It was deliriously messy and fun. Now, I'm sitting in the writing center, waiting for a meeting to start, listening to my friend read Chuck Norris jokes to bide the time.

God, I love this job.

today has been funny. i can't find my camera, which is sad because i have seen some great things, not that i would have actually take pictures because i never take the time to get out my camera, but i might have, and this is a grand run-on sentence and . . . wait, what was i talking about??

oh yeah, funny stuff i saw. well hopefully i will find my camera and take pictures of the grand and random things on my street. talking about them just doesn't seem as good as showing you.

i will share one thing that i saw today; just around the corner from my house there is a small purple building with a lovely purple sign proclaiming

"full spiritual cleansing"
"just $5"

really what more could you ask for?

breathless

I am a bit breathless from charging up the 6 flights to my office. Whew. What a blustery day!
This morning I had a bit of a lie-in (i.e., I snoozed my alarm something fierce). And as I sat in the kitchen, waiting for the coffee to brew, I happened to glance outside and see these birch trees. The diffused, chilly light makes them so stark against the colored leaves...

I am feeling quite satisfied today. There is much work to be done--in the semester and in life--but I am feeling placid about it. As for the semester, I see the light at the end of the tunnel~students will turn in their second-to-last essays, I will grade and plug away at my own hefty research papers, all will get done, eventually. I will have time to read again in earnest, eventually.
Not that I'm not making time to read now. It is probably saving my life. And lists are my friends. And each day has enough *ahem* stuff...of it's own.

I wish I was exercising and taking dance classes with you instead of sitting on my fat ass, jerking my fingers up and down for hours....a fat ass and carpal tunnel is all I'll get for my trouble!
:)

p.s. Puddy says 'hi'...

good morning friend,

mmm, right now it's wednesday morning. i am sitting in my room, drinking coffee and listening to nico sing about mirrors . . .

wednesday needs to be productive. i need to be productive. grocery store (am completely out of coffee), laundry, work out with k at 1:15, thesis thesis thesis, a little house cleaning . . . maybe (if i am super woman) a dance class. maybe.

we will see.

did you ever read franny and zooey? i finished it a few months ago but i was just thinking about it the other day . . . while reading it i often wondered what you would think of it . . .

"the cards are stacked (quite properly, i imagine) against all professional aesthetes, and no doubt we all deserve the dark, wordy, academic deaths we will all sooner or later die"

http://interruptions.org/

yeah . . .

bits and bobs

Thanks for the great card. It really brightened up my day here in the land of Writing Center...I have been trying to fill the blank minutes with underground art-fashioning/posting, and online browsing. here are some images I found today that I thought you'd appreciate...