Month: May 2001

this morning the rain that’s been threatening for the last couple of days has finally made good on its threat. slow steady sheets of rain fall past my office window. a spring rain, tho, fairly warm, and falling through a canopy of emerging leaves.

yesterday was a good day. we decided to goof off for most of the day, since Chad has to deal with all the surgery stuff today. went to Oly – hung out with HR (truly interesting conversation – I mostly just listened), then with Brent. He’s going to be putting up a fence, and wants Chad’s help. He & Dani doing really nice stuff with that little house (gorgeous floors & paint in the living room!). Then Chad took me out to shipwreck beads which was wonderful and inspiring and overwhelming.

2nd day in a row of blogger errors. grr.

I haven’t been up this late in a while. trying desperately to write in the blank spots in this section of Aila. but I found it was coming off really forced, even to me. so I’m taking a breather, to let the thoughts gather back again.

we had a “pre-emptive mother’s day strike” today – went over to Jennifer & Jerry’s house, gave mom a dwarf boxwood in a big ceramic pot, plus a little thing of bath salts and a michael graves/target trowel. she was thrilled. 🙂 so we sat around & drank green tea and talked about nothing in particular.

monday Jerry is having his eye surgery. I am keeping my fingers crossed, and whispering a few thoughts to the goddess – both for Jerry’s sake, and for Jennifer’s. and for Chad’s, too. I feel sort of useless…and it doesn’t help that if I think about it too hard, I just start bawling. like I tell him – at least he gets to tell his dad that he loves him.

Error 210. what the hell does that mean?!

post is not being published – again. <sigh>

a nice mellow end to the week. Brit’s taken off enough of the pressure that I could let him spend this morning learning more JavaScript and XML. (you never know when that stuff’s gonna be useful.) the dept. went to lunch today at Rock Pasta, which I haven’t been to in ages, and afterwards we went to Buzzard Records. picked myself up a copy of Cocteau Twins Heaven or Las Vegas. I can’t remember now if I lost that in the Xmas ’93 robbery, or the breakup with Raul, but I’m glad to have it again. 🙂

yes, the morning overall has definitely improved my mood. getting lots of little things done – more than anything else, responding to email (internal stuff now, not the contact form.) and doing tasks related to them.

now my mood is all shot to hell. we missed the deadline to make a deposit to do early registration. grrrr. some days, there’s just too much to keep track of.

but I took a little break, leaving up my log, and went to answer some email – “how do I register” “I need a transcript” “tell me everything about all your programs” “give me my professor’s email address” etc., etc. and somehow, it made me a little calmer.

adding a new section (“chad“) to my photos. I love going through my old pictures, remembering times past. I just wish I had more. there was a long stretch, first in college, then just a couple of years ago, when I never took photos. I don’t know what I was waiting for…well, in college I didn’t own a camera, which would explain that. but it makes that whole time feel like it just dropped into a black hole. (as if having pictures would’ve helped.)

home for lunch – an absolutely gorgeous day. I’m so glad we brought the computer down to the kitchen. now I can look out on the lovely (if unmowed) backyard from my computer. while I eat my lunch…nice multitasking, eh?

feeling re-energized. solving a coding problem seems to break all those other creative blocks, and vice versa, which is why I did nothing more last night than read more of Musashi.

what a bizarre & fascinating book. Japanese historical novel, set in early 1600s, written as a serial in the mid-1930s. great rollicking story, remarkably gory tho. a fictionalization of the real life Musashi, who wrote The Book of Five Rings, which I gather is all about swordsmanship and life – the way of the sword & all that. given the time it was written, and the emphasis on the Way of the Samurai/Way of the Sword, I wonder how it fits into the political world of its day (pre-WWII Japanese imperialism, etc.). I find myself wanting to read more about the history of Japan, which I know only glancingly, despite my class in Asian Lit in college. I seem to remember that the period of puppet theater that I wrote my big paper on is about the same time as the setting of the novel. hmmm.

gonna go work on some new jewelry…..