Insulting my injuries

The serpent bites its own tail, and this hoop snake year comes to an end. A few things that describe my life at present: Frustration: The thing that most summarizes the year for me is that it’s the first full calendar year in my adult life that I have been neither employed nor a full…

Since I was a kid one of the major signs of summer for me was the return of the bats. I was entranced by their aerial precision movements as they chased bugs in the twilight sky over the backyard. I’ve stayed enchanted by them into my adulthood, and have been a member of Bat Conservation…

My CD with “The Cat Carol” arrived in the mail yesterday. I meant to bring it into work with me today, but in my haste to get out the door this morning I forgot both that and my employee ID badge. I miss both these items. A new CD would have been an extraordinary help…

I see I screwed up the dates on Monday’s and yesterday’s entry. Typical. There are days I shouldn’t be allowed out without a chaperone. So Bush is doing something other than war-mongering these days. I see that yesterday he signed off on legistlation that would create a national “do not call” list. Charities, surveys and…

I hate getting those cutesy mail-it-to-everbody joke emails. As a rule, I don’t send them, and I seldom read them. I have a friend, who I otherwise think very highly of, who includes me on his mass-emailing list of jokes. He’ll send out three or four of these a week, and each email may contain…

Apologies to anyone who has read previous entries on this. Apologies also for the length of this entry (believe it or not, I had to leave things out because it was getting too long). I have never before written all this down at one time, in one place. Today I needed to. I reserve the…