There's more I could write here but I think that Emily Carr's dog says it best:


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I renewed my LJ account a week or two back and now I'm sort of wondering why. It's such an effort to post lately. I'm tired; I'm busy; I post nothing of interest even to me. It occurs to me that my relationship with LJ is some sort of marriage; you sort to stick with it (though god knows I haven't) because you figure that eventually it will be ( Read more... )

I've been the very antithesis of the anti-capitalist Maydayian today though I did not go to work. No, rather than slaving for my nonprofit pro-conservation masters I spent the morning dealing with life insurance and the afternoon shopping and having my hair done. At least I traveled via public transportation. I must admit that though I was downtown ( Read more... )

There are those who might think that the 2012 edition of Birds and Book is now old enough to retire but that would be ignoring the lack of retirement options many of us seem to have these days. It's one of those things I wonder about: how many people in my age range actually believe that they'll actually retire some day. Certainly my brothers all ( Read more... )

I post earlier than usual this evening while Eli makes soup and, I do believe, washes up the dishes. That man, I tell you, is a saint. I've continued somewhat delicate for which I blame, in chronological order, Ms. Byatt, work, and the weather. I was most vexed to observe gloppy rain streaking my window at work as dark fell this evening, in part ( Read more... )

I've got as far as pulling out my address books and making a list of names of people to whom I intend to send Christmas cards. It is, I must say, this sort of activity that can be stealthily distressing and I find myself understanding people who complain about the holidays being hard. Former in-laws with whom I'm no longer in contact, the various ( Read more... )

Cutting to the chase, I'm tired. Oddly tired. Very tired. You know. Tired. Oh, it was elijah_brown who was close to falling asleep during this evening's viewing of My Neighbor Totoro but he perked up when the cat bus appeared on the scene. As did I, I guess, but I'm still looking forward to an early night of it. I can't explain it though maybe it's just the ( Read more... )

Slightly tired, slightly down despite having discovered that my computer clock at work was an hour off (too early which makes no sense at all) late in the afternoon. Suddenly it was practically time to go home and my very productive morning and starvation at lunch time made complete sense. But this evening I'm feeling tired and just the slightest ( Read more... )

So today I gave in to the geist of my zeit and stayed home. I was doubtful as to whether I was really sufficiently "ill" to justify skipping a day of work but when I found myself hiding in the bedroom because the mail truck was in the street and I didn't want that much interaction with the world, I decided that I'd probably made the right call. It' ( Read more... )