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today's another day..
I wanted to thank Leigh, Mark, Emily, and Ben for the very nice birthday card and ebay voucher.. i've been looking, deciding what to spend it on.. and I wanted to thank you again for the free pub meal you sent us at christmas, we've only JUST gone to redeem it, but its a little trek away, so we'd been building up to it.. it was lovely there ( http://members.lycos.co.uk/troutinn/mainindex.htm ), very popular.. we're planning to go back when the weather's nicer - it had been snowing quite a lot here (not gathering on the ground, just snowing a little each day), it was snowing and raining that day.. but if we go in the summer, we can sit out by the water.. the peacocks were outside, looking quite wet. sorry we didn't take pictures.. but we had a really nice time, so, again, thank you.
sigh, so what else is going on...
not alot really, more of the same..
oo we're going to see ani difranco a week from today, going to spend the night in Coventry (apparently the name sounds alot nicer than the place really is..) so that should be cool. mmm getting my blood drawn on tuesday, checking to see if i'm still anaemic, i stopped taking my iron pills months ago.. they hurt my stomach. and i went to the doctor recently, he doesn't think i'm anaemic based on the color of the inside of my eyelids.. but i'm taking the test anyway. ..ha, know how i love those needles!
last time i got blood drawn, i forgot to breathe.
the doctor called me a wimp.
i've been a bit more social lately.. went to a lecture, going to a private view on tuesday. recontacted a few people i haven't talked to for a while.. I've sorta been missing intellectual conversations. feel like i've been a bit isolated and unstimulated.. not focusing on or dealing with the things i'm most passionate about.. I attribute this to everything going on..and i'm sick of doing that, using my situation as an excuse. I just sorta lose myself.. i feel undefined.
of course, some of the best conversations come from the most unstable people.. I've been thinking about madness and artists - saw a documentary that was talking about how people think of the mad artist, it was about the definition of sanity.. and it talked for a while about art, alice and wonderland (showed clips from a black and white alice and wonderland and I found and purchased it on ebay: http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=6372860184&ssPageName=STRK:MEWN:IT soundtrack by ravi shankar) so it got me all stirred up, thinking i was enjoying watching these people on tv talking about these things more than most conversations i've had in 6 months.. I also went and purchased Art and Artist by Otto Rank http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0393305740/qid=1110557261/sr=8-2/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i2_xgl/026-4980628-8040445 and a book about alice and wonderland http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0805794301/qid=1110557299/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_0_1/026-4980628-8040445 and, though i haven't read anything in ages, i really want to know what's in these books. the otto rank one arrived literally less than 24 hours after i purchased it online.. that was pretty impressive.. and i've started it, but of course its not amazingly simple reading, and its gonna take me a while i guess.
i don't want to just collect books.. but i don't seem to read nonfiction unless i'm writing an essay.
mmm
but when i do, for the essay, i do really enjoy it..
or maybe that's just enjoying it in contrast to putting it all back down on paper, which i find tedious.
oh dear, i'm writing more than dad!
ha
any comments would be appreciated.
I wanted to thank Leigh, Mark, Emily, and Ben for the very nice birthday card and ebay voucher.. i've been looking, deciding what to spend it on.. and I wanted to thank you again for the free pub meal you sent us at christmas, we've only JUST gone to redeem it, but its a little trek away, so we'd been building up to it.. it was lovely there ( http://members.lycos.co.uk/troutinn/mainindex.htm ), very popular.. we're planning to go back when the weather's nicer - it had been snowing quite a lot here (not gathering on the ground, just snowing a little each day), it was snowing and raining that day.. but if we go in the summer, we can sit out by the water.. the peacocks were outside, looking quite wet. sorry we didn't take pictures.. but we had a really nice time, so, again, thank you.
sigh, so what else is going on...
not alot really, more of the same..
oo we're going to see ani difranco a week from today, going to spend the night in Coventry (apparently the name sounds alot nicer than the place really is..) so that should be cool. mmm getting my blood drawn on tuesday, checking to see if i'm still anaemic, i stopped taking my iron pills months ago.. they hurt my stomach. and i went to the doctor recently, he doesn't think i'm anaemic based on the color of the inside of my eyelids.. but i'm taking the test anyway. ..ha, know how i love those needles!
last time i got blood drawn, i forgot to breathe.
the doctor called me a wimp.
i've been a bit more social lately.. went to a lecture, going to a private view on tuesday. recontacted a few people i haven't talked to for a while.. I've sorta been missing intellectual conversations. feel like i've been a bit isolated and unstimulated.. not focusing on or dealing with the things i'm most passionate about.. I attribute this to everything going on..and i'm sick of doing that, using my situation as an excuse. I just sorta lose myself.. i feel undefined.
of course, some of the best conversations come from the most unstable people.. I've been thinking about madness and artists - saw a documentary that was talking about how people think of the mad artist, it was about the definition of sanity.. and it talked for a while about art, alice and wonderland (showed clips from a black and white alice and wonderland and I found and purchased it on ebay: http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=6372860184&ssPageName=STRK:MEWN:IT soundtrack by ravi shankar) so it got me all stirred up, thinking i was enjoying watching these people on tv talking about these things more than most conversations i've had in 6 months.. I also went and purchased Art and Artist by Otto Rank http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0393305740/qid=1110557261/sr=8-2/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i2_xgl/026-4980628-8040445 and a book about alice and wonderland http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0805794301/qid=1110557299/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_0_1/026-4980628-8040445 and, though i haven't read anything in ages, i really want to know what's in these books. the otto rank one arrived literally less than 24 hours after i purchased it online.. that was pretty impressive.. and i've started it, but of course its not amazingly simple reading, and its gonna take me a while i guess.
i don't want to just collect books.. but i don't seem to read nonfiction unless i'm writing an essay.
mmm
but when i do, for the essay, i do really enjoy it..
or maybe that's just enjoying it in contrast to putting it all back down on paper, which i find tedious.
oh dear, i'm writing more than dad!
ha
any comments would be appreciated.