It is absolutely gorgeous out right now, and has been for days.  Our Septembers tend to be, but it still takes me off guard.  A few of the trees have even ventured to turn colors.  Like those scarlet maples or whatever they are that do the whole flame-orange-red thing.  I love those ( Read more... )

I messed up at work.

( Excellent memory - except when it isn't )

Yeargh, what a week.  There's been the emotional challenge of helping my friend with the broken heart, the physical challenge of fighting a sore throat while practicing Beethoven's Ninth (and putting some work into Allaway's Celtic Mass), and the... other challenge of regular old hormones.  The weather has been expressing this perfectly, with its ( Read more... )

Sigh.

I've been trying to write Philosophical Things once a week.

And then Quarter End hits.

And the thing I just posted was my latest attempt.

I think it may be fail.

::goes back to hiding under a rock::

Some days I think I've got it too easy.

( Being challenged )

The last few days have been weird ones emotionally.  Am wondering when it will settle down.

But Friday night was interesting for a ( completely different reason )

Happy birthday today to Aragorn son of Arathorn, Ron Weasley, and also (oddly enough), my Grammy ( Read more... )

Many things to write about...

( Inventory )

There's this guy who comes into the cafe on a regular basis and orders some form of mocha. Every time he orders his mocha he, without fail, pronounces the word with a soft "ch" (as in, "mo-tcha") instead of the proper hard "k" sound. And I, without fail, repeat the order back to him (something I usually do anyway) with the correct pronunciation ( Read more... )

Let a righteous man strike me--it is a kindness; let him rebuke me--it is oil on my head. My head will not refuse it.  Psalm 141:5

I have not been the best friend in the world to people recently. So I have decided to make a proclamation: if ever I act like an idiot/jerk/shleek*, my friends are welcome to smack me upside the head and tell me so.

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