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farewell, luscious locks
I donated my hair to Locks of Love this afternoon. I had been worrying about it for a week.
the fretful pre-chop photo:
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can anybody tell me the trick for locking text onto a page in Word? I am creating a recital program for a recital this weekend and I always struggle with the layout, because every time I add/delete something, the layout of my entire program jumps around. In the past I've just muscled through it and tweaked the thing to death, but there HAS TO BE AN ( Read more... ) -
to catch you up
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CSA, week three
does anybody have any good beet recipes? I never ate them growing up and have only have them a handful of times.
more about my CSA so far when I have time to write this weekend.
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escape, angst monster
trapped in one of those days where you feel terrible about something -- or many somethings -- and you cannot escape it, and you don't know how to deal with it, and you wish you could just inhabit somebody else's body for awhile so you could just stop feeling so goddamned heavy. of course it's my only day off till next sunday, and the only reprieve ( Read more... ) -
lists, always on top
1. gustave flaubert: madame bovary
2. michael pollan: the omnivore's dilemma
3. jane smiley: a thousand acres
4. italo calvino: the baron in the trees
5. annie proulx: the shipping news
6. ian mcewan: atonement
7. wallace stegner: angle of repose (p)
8. gregory maguire: wicked: the life and times of the wicked witch of the west(p) = denotes ( Read more... ) -
mid-morning, early march
I mentioned at the start of the year that I had embarked on the 101 goals in 1001 days mission. The truth is, it took me a long time to come up with 101 goals, a predicament that was a little dismaying. Once upon a time, I could have sat down and cranked out a couple hundred in about an hour.
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soft sheets; bare legs; a drawn out delicious morning; the foreign sound of london's brief and low-pitched telephone ring on my call to english national opera; cappuccino & half a baguette; cold hands; the crane outside circling and circling; messy hair; the jarring and comforting unfamiliar scent of someone else's shampoo in my hair; encounters ( Read more... ) -
closing night
things to miss about rodelinda ( Read more... ) -
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"Teddy bears, or stuffed animals in general, were probably the starting point in my problem of ascribing human feelings to inanimate objects. This is a problem, especially since one of my other problems is extreme empathy. Seeing these little guys inside out, in all of their fragile, pathetic, loved or neglected, heroic glory makes it positively ( Read more... )