I had a pleasant and quite unexpected surprise as I drove into work this morning. Driving a rush-hour-crowded road I’d traveled a hundred times before, I was stopped for a red light on a small bridge that crosses over a tiny creek in the middle of an industrial complex. A blue flash caught my eye,…
I seem to be heading into another pity-party-period. I think it was the clothes shopping over the weekend that set it off. There’s nothing that ruins a person’s self-image like cruising the maternity section of a department store for clothes when you aren’t pregnant. Except perhaps cruising the maternity section of a department store for…
Actually, the title has nothing to do with anything, but then again, neither does this entry. Friday was supposed to be my “easy” day at work. The shifts end early Fridays right now, so I should be able to leave early myself. It didn’t work out that way. Instead of leaving around 3:30, I didn’t…
A Parable for My Times. The starfish is a carnivore, a predator. There are different varieties of starfish, each with its own Epicurean specialty. The ones here in the Northeast prey on mollusks such as clams and oysters. They are voracious, and a single starfish can eat as many as 50 clams in six days….
The days at work are getting busier, as people start to acknowlege that I’m not all that likely to drop dead at their feet with little warning. I spent very little time at my desk today, and I found I rather liked that. While desk work is nice once in a while, the day goes…
Years ago I read “Tuesdays with Morrie”, Mitch Albom’s small book recording his final conversations with his old teacher and mentor, Morrie Schwartz, who was dying slowly from ALS. I later purchased “Morrie: In His Own Words” from a bargain book table, which contained Morrie’s own observations about the process of dying and how he…
It wasn’t exactly a gold-star productive weekend, but I have at least caught up on my sleep. If all goes well, this coming week will be the first five-day work week I’ll be putting in since I started back. It will be interesting to see how dead I am at the end of it. After…
This is a large and graphics intensive entry. Apologies to those viewing with a slow modem dial-up, but I just couldn’t face doing all the extra coding that thumbnails entail. Two weeks ago The Socialist and I visited Frederick, Maryland for the weekend. Yes, that Frederick, the one that they caught the snipers just outside…
I had big plans of finally getting my Frederick, MD entry done. The pictures are downloaded from my camera and organized. But as I was getting ready to resize them for diary use, I pooped out. Looks like the project is just gonna hafta wait a bit more. Yesterday was a day sent directly from…
From: Lilith Date Posted: 22 Oct 2002 Coitus interruptus, I haven’t heard it put that way in a long time. Hope you went fishing before bowl was used. Recall, Lil, that I said “worst case scenario”. I used the term intending the full meaning of the phrase, unfortunately.