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Monthly Archives: February 2007
Grrr…
10.5 hours in the office and counting. Unfortunately Rudder did not bother to inform me we would be working late until it was too late to catch a bus home. I do not have 10.5 hours worth of work to … Continue reading
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patience and fortitude
It’s a funny thing. Patience has always been a woman’s lot in life: waiting for children to learn better, waiting for warriors to come home. Waiting for bread to bake, for clothes to dry, for plants to sprout. That makes … Continue reading
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beading!
Aside from a spot of laundry, filing, studying, and weightlifting, my plans for the day involved a pleasant stretch of reading and playing around. For the first time in a long while, I spent the morning playing with beads, and … Continue reading
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Possessed (of a new book)
Am about to begin reading The Unfolding of Language, by Guy Deutscher. Good thing it was recommended by someone whose opinion I trust, because there’s a blurb from A.S. Byatt on the back. I’m trying to remind myself that just … Continue reading
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knitting the ravelled sleave, and other things
It’s a vicious cycle. I’ve been sleeping badly, for a variety of reasons. Monday and Tuesday night there was some Carnaval noise; also on Tuesday my mother (still a little unclear on time differences) called right as I was falling … Continue reading
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…but I was way big into raisins at the time…
IAccording to Reuters, “Vice President Dick Cheney said on Wednesday the United States wants to finish its mission in Iraq and ‘return with honor.’ ” I was 7 years old in 1974 when Nixon resigned, and I am not a … Continue reading
missing stuff
Things are very quiet at work lately – apparently school closes for Carnaval week, so lots of adults take the week off, either to spend Carnaval-ing or (since plenty seem to dislike it) to travel elsewhere with their families. Apparently … Continue reading
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