Popcorn post of many topics
I got sleep. I crashed at 7:00 pm and got up at 5:00 am. Now I am only down about 8 hours overall. This is so much better. And no headaches since.
I caught up on all my cohousing email. Let me restate that: I had 1500 unread threads in that in box. Now I have zero. That is not to say I read them all. I totally did not. But I threw out some junk, responded to some old malingering emails and marked everything else read. If you sent something to realfirstname(short).realastname.gmail.com and I have appeared to ignore you... you got lost in the shuffle. Please resend. I did find an email from my college roommate dated December 2009 which I finally responded to. That was not the oldest email by far, but it was the one I regretted missing the most.
I went to a breakfast with Senator Scott Brown this morning with another 30 of my coworkers. I wore my Mrs. Dervishspin Goes to Washington dress and blended right in. I _wanted_ to ask him what he was doing about the housing crisis, but I didn't dare since I was ostensibly there to monitor what he was saying about health care. I have never been to one of these before so I was not sure what he would talk about. Turns out that Chamber of Commerce Breakfasts are opportunities to talk about your platform.
Senator Brown is a good looking, well built man. He radiates a little bit of charisma from that aspect of himself, but other than that he comes across as a little empty. He's not a particularly good public speaker from notes. He did not have good off the cuff answers to anything either. He was not persuasive. He did not appear to have a coherent platform and most of the time I had no idea where he was going with his points. They did not seem to hang together or follow a particular line of reasoning. And dear god, must we invoke 9/11 everytime anyone who is a public official speaks? I am getting SO tired of hearing that trotted out, as if we will just fall into line with a certain position because someone invoked the specter of 9/11. He seemed like a sincere individual, and a good person, but he does not appear to be astute, clever, a good leader or even a good legislator. Seems to me that Massachusetts can do better.
Going to a wedding this weekend, not EK Coronation. I should be at Crown. I volunteered to assist with Royal Travel Fund stuff so I had better be present. I have a couple of Bad Ideas brewing. I am going to check in with some select folks and see what can get done.
I am getting close to vibrating with excitement: Endgame is in 2 weeks.
I have a poetry thingy in my head. I don't know what will come of it yet; it's hovering out there, elusive and ephemeral. I know being in the presence of this poetry thingy brings me great joy, but I don't know if there are words I can assign to it. It's an interesting puzzle. Not sure what to do with it.
I want to smell a new perfume, I am not sure I know what. Just something I have never smelled before. I read reviews on line and want to try THAT and want to try THAT, but I seem to be incapable of actually purchasing anything, even samples. Not sure what to do with that longing either.
I caught up on all my cohousing email. Let me restate that: I had 1500 unread threads in that in box. Now I have zero. That is not to say I read them all. I totally did not. But I threw out some junk, responded to some old malingering emails and marked everything else read. If you sent something to realfirstname(short).realastname.gmail.com and I have appeared to ignore you... you got lost in the shuffle. Please resend. I did find an email from my college roommate dated December 2009 which I finally responded to. That was not the oldest email by far, but it was the one I regretted missing the most.
I went to a breakfast with Senator Scott Brown this morning with another 30 of my coworkers. I wore my Mrs. Dervishspin Goes to Washington dress and blended right in. I _wanted_ to ask him what he was doing about the housing crisis, but I didn't dare since I was ostensibly there to monitor what he was saying about health care. I have never been to one of these before so I was not sure what he would talk about. Turns out that Chamber of Commerce Breakfasts are opportunities to talk about your platform.
Senator Brown is a good looking, well built man. He radiates a little bit of charisma from that aspect of himself, but other than that he comes across as a little empty. He's not a particularly good public speaker from notes. He did not have good off the cuff answers to anything either. He was not persuasive. He did not appear to have a coherent platform and most of the time I had no idea where he was going with his points. They did not seem to hang together or follow a particular line of reasoning. And dear god, must we invoke 9/11 everytime anyone who is a public official speaks? I am getting SO tired of hearing that trotted out, as if we will just fall into line with a certain position because someone invoked the specter of 9/11. He seemed like a sincere individual, and a good person, but he does not appear to be astute, clever, a good leader or even a good legislator. Seems to me that Massachusetts can do better.
Going to a wedding this weekend, not EK Coronation. I should be at Crown. I volunteered to assist with Royal Travel Fund stuff so I had better be present. I have a couple of Bad Ideas brewing. I am going to check in with some select folks and see what can get done.
I am getting close to vibrating with excitement: Endgame is in 2 weeks.
I have a poetry thingy in my head. I don't know what will come of it yet; it's hovering out there, elusive and ephemeral. I know being in the presence of this poetry thingy brings me great joy, but I don't know if there are words I can assign to it. It's an interesting puzzle. Not sure what to do with it.
I want to smell a new perfume, I am not sure I know what. Just something I have never smelled before. I read reviews on line and want to try THAT and want to try THAT, but I seem to be incapable of actually purchasing anything, even samples. Not sure what to do with that longing either.