1. Do you enjoy the cold weather and snow for the holidays?Yes. As a matter of fact, when I lived in Florida, I used to turn the air conditioning on "high" all winter, especially on Christmas Day. I was aghast one year when I showed up at my mother's house for Christmas and found her remarking on the "glorious" (non-existent) breeze coming through ( Read more... )

For the last several days, in an act of studious self-discipline, I've been reading the GRE test book ( Read more... )

I've been home with Buttercup for most of the last 2 days. Poor Buttercup. He is breathing so loud, I can hear him, and I can't hear for sh*t. Yesterday, he was hacking up blood again. Which is, aside from gross, really scary ( Read more... )

4 a.m. Get up on 4 hours of sleep; Make breakfast ( Read more... )

More Bliss entries are up.

I don't know what it is about having so much deadline stress and working 10 hour days and not sleeping enough, but *something* is helping me write.

I updated Bliss. No really!

This is what I did while waiting for things to download and upload for the Diarist Awards panel at 1 o'clock in the morning ( Read more... )

( Concrete stuff about UU Membership Journey )

Yesterday when I finally took a break around 4, I took my journal downstairs and sat on one of the couches in the glass-enclosed room off to the side of the cafeteria. Staring out through the glass, trying to find the right word, I realized there was motion in the air outside ( Read more... )

I have about 20 more minutes at work today and then I am going to Bucci to get my hair cut.

From the time I leave here, until Monday, I have non-stop plans. I will be lucky to find a few minutes to sit quietly with a book and a cup of coffee.

Tomorrow, I have to take Shane to the airport for a 6 a.m. flight. 6. In the a.m.That means I will need ( Read more... )

I am apalled to realize that I perpetually keep a short sleeve button down shirt and a sweater in my desk drawer. For ten months a year, it is impossible to know what season to dress for. There is no way to know in the morning what the mid-afternoon or evening weather will be like. Nor is it possible to tell by the outdoor weather what the indoor ( Read more... )