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a_spider_danced

I am calm.

Jul 12, 2006 09:28

There is nothing I have to say of any particular importance just now. So why am I saying anything at all? I have no answer to that question. Oh well. Good things: making pizza and macaroni and cheese; entertaining the ten-year-old boy I'm watching this week by helping him make a lucky bracelet to wear during his baseball game; my cat is ( Read more... )

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serme_sara July 13 2006, 03:06:32 UTC

Which book?

a_spider_danced July 13 2006, 03:18:54 UTC

Mountains Beyond Mountains, by Tracy Kidder.

water__hyacinth July 13 2006, 03:22:36 UTC

Emma, I am going to miss you immensely. I wish I could have seen you today. It turns out I didn't get all that much done. There's always more.

I'm glad you're calm. Things sound lovely, just like you.

I have a huge stack of just-printed Rome pictures on my desk. It's great.

a_spider_danced July 14 2006, 03:13:35 UTC

I am going to miss you immensely. Don't even get me started. Except I suppose I started it, didn't I . . . oh well. I did see you today. We went to Cliquot and watched West Wing and such. It was snazzy. And we saw the lovely printed pictures! I am forever in awe of your well-established and organized system of photographic records. It gives hope to the orderly side of my brain, though I can't really hope to duplicate it.

water__hyacinth July 14 2006, 03:34:52 UTC

No, I think I started it. But that's all right.

Today was quite lovely. I enjoyed it immensely. And tomorrow, I'm sure, will be lovely as well, because that's how summer works. And so will Saturday. And then I'm leaving, but it will still be lovely, even though I'll miss you.

It's not really all that organized. It's not controlled by any organizational impulse, but rather an obsessive-compulsive need to have all of my memories on record and easily accessible, which therefore requires that I take huge quantities of photographs and put them in albums and put the albums in a big drawer and pull them out a lot to stare at them.

flavia_sneech July 13 2006, 03:53:31 UTC

there are more fantastic books in the world than I will ever have time in my life to read

That might be one of my least favorite realities of all time. I just finished a pretty good book called Bitter Grounds about coffee plantations in El Salvador from the 30s to the 70s and the families and own and work them. It was worth reading. Not brilliant, but interesting nonetheless.

It's good to have nothing very terrible or harmful happening. ;)

flavia_sneech July 13 2006, 03:54:02 UTC

Um, the little smiley just chose to be winking. I didn't make him that way. We can pretend we have a secret. Shh.

a_spider_danced July 14 2006, 03:05:29 UTC

Sounds interesting :) I think you'd probably like Mountains Beyond Mountains, if you haven't read it.

singlepointe July 13 2006, 16:59:58 UTC

Samsitting? what fun. If it's Eli I'm screaming. I'm about to go tour Smith in a week. Yep. And I've been sequining. A jock strap. I had to learn on something...

a_spider_danced July 14 2006, 03:09:35 UTC

One: Samsitting indeed. He's at least well-behaved most of the time, if he does have a peculiar propensity for boredom.

Two: Say hi to Smith for me! How are you getting there?

Three: Sequining? What fun. ("Have we an internal sequin issue to deal with, Benjamin?") And what, pray tell, is going to become of this jock strap once it has been sequined?

Four: Love!

Emma

singlepointe July 14 2006, 22:43:53 UTC

One: At least it's not a propensity for what his cousin has one for; getting sick of you!!!

Two: Will do. My dad's coming out and taking me around the east coast.

Three: It belongs to one of the counselors. I'm going to bequeeth it to him, and then hope to not know it's fate. I'm guessing display upon a wall or somesuch.

Four: Love! Love, Love!

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singlepointe July 29 2006, 19:57:15 UTC

Nope! It turned out very nicely. Shiny and sparkly like.