Dammit, Slipperperons …

I’m off-center this morning. I’ve been this way since writing class last night. The class is not what I expected. It’s not what I wanted. I have to decide if it’s what I need, though. It was billed as “writing that first novel”. And, whatever else I might say, it is that. The class is…

CRAP! The government representative who works out of our company is taking a prolonged vacation. He’s going to be gone for four weeks over late May through early June Guess who has to cancel her vacation. Damndamndamndamndamndamndamndamn. Crap. Weekend summary – unwanted email, gym, dinner for older sister’s birthday (a week late), got the Professor…

Hit by lightning.  Again.  I feel like the frail off-screen distant relative of some major TV character.  You know the one.  Every weekly episode has a new throw-away one-liner.  “You remember Elaine —  Maude’s uncle’s wife’s cousin?  She just had her gall bladder removed.”  “She just got hit by a car.” “An albatross knocked her…

It’s just that time of yearWhen we push ourselves aheadWe push ourselves ahead – Dar Williams, “End of Summer” This is the window that gives me my first view of the outside world each morning. It’s a northerly view, and through it the first rays of day light stream in from the right and incoming…

I hope the seats in the movie theater are *real* comfortable! That’s a long time to be watching a movie. Hopefully my bladder is up to the challenge. I think perhaps I won’t be buying the large Pepsi to go with my popcorn after all. The reviews for “Return of the King” have all been…

Anybody interested in a little irony? Remember back a little over two weeks ago when I took over both parking spots by my house because the next-door-neighbors kept taking both spots? Well, the day I did that the neighbors apparently left on some protracted trip. They haven’t been back since. By the time they return…