To paraphrase John Lennon. I finished up the little manuscript for the gent with the excitable brain today. It was a tough project, given that he just wrote things down as they occurred to him, but I had forgotten how much pleasure I get from wrestling words into order. Maybe not beauty, in this case, […]
I get to spend my weekend editing a manuscript. This is not a bad thing, since I get paid for it, but I fear that, as usual, I rather vastly underestimated the time it would take to do it, therefore the amount I ought to get.
It’s only a 44-page piece, so you wouldn’t think it […]
My friend Patti and I went to see “Coraline” yesterday. The visuals were enchanting and we were disappointed that we didn’t have a 3D option (evidently, our theater doesn’t have that capability, or so they claim, which you’d think should be addressed at once). Van Gogh would have loved seeing his “Starry Night” wheeling around […]
In other news, I finished the top I’ve been working on. I’m pretty pleased with it. I had to frog it several times, but wound up with exactly what I wanted, drape and fit-wise. Gives me some confidence. I get a kick out of the flash turning me into a creature of light. […]
Grandma and I were talking about the upcoming Wedding of the Century and got onto the subject of mothers-in-law. Personally, I am thankful not to have one of those any longer, since the relationship with the one I had was something less, shall we say, than an exhilarating, uplifting experience. Although it was quite a […]
Considering that Snaotheus probably checks this more often than he does his email, I shall explicate the current (ha ha) electrifying electronic eccentricities here.
My monitor, which is around eight or 10 years old, is showing some disconcerting signs of dys-health. When I turn on the system, it won’t come on. It says it’s on, but […]
I despise doing tax crap. This is why I opted a few years ago to throw money at it. It gives me anxiety attacks and makes my stomach hurt and grows nightmares.
Not surprisingly, I usually put off messing with tax crap as long as possible, despite the fact that I now shell out actual […]
After dragging my carcass out of bed, I poured a nice big cup of tea to take back to my office (that constitutes my commute). I turned around to take a step, and the handle on my beloved seahorse mug from the Seattle aquarium fell into the four pieces it was in before Snaotheus superglued […]
Edited to add forgotten trauma
To paraphrase the old song. . . what a demonstration of Northrup Luck. I went to Snaotheus’s and KrisDi’s yesterday, largely to hang with them (which turned out to be a good thing) and partly to go see the Lucy exhibit at the science museum before she goes back to Ethiopia […]