i managed to get out of the house for an hour or two today, for a drive around town and a trip to the umbrella factory, where i fed some honking geese while the emus kept to themselves in the far sunny corner of their yard. the geese honked at me, and in my best penguin/dick cheney imitation i honked back, and we went back and forth several times ( Read more... )

losing my mind. a little at a time ( Read more... )

Happily the stomach bug disappeared early in the day yesterday, and I toughed it out and kept my hair appointment. School isn't opening till 12 today, hurrah, so I get the whole morning to read or study or whatever. I am *so* hardwired to be a morning person. I didn't even go back to bed once I found out school was delayed ( Read more... )

Dear Food Poisoning,

Why now? I haven't had a visit from you in years, so why today? I was really looking forward to getting my hair cut, and now it seems I cannot make it to even get dressed, never mind leave the house. Damn you.

walked all over hellnback today. all in all very good - drove about half the way to the capitol from our place, parked, walked, walked some more. eventually we found a space kinda on the mall and could hear but not see. the vibe was great - it was very much me & 1 million+ of my friends all hanging out ( Read more... )

Man, what a sight. 89-year-old Pete Seeger, and Bruce Springsteen, standing on a stage I built, at the Lincoln Memorial, singing the first song I ever learned (when I was about 4 or 5), Woody Guthrie's "This Land Is Your Land". I hear HBO is going around YouTube scrubbing all clips of the show because they have exclusive rights to it for 6 months ( Read more... )

I seriously feel like it's Christmas eve. Like I know tomorrow I'm winning a billion-dollar lottery. Maybe this is what it feels like the night before you get released from jail on an 8-year sentence for a crime you didn't commit? Oh I know - I felt like this when one of my ridiculously incompetent bosses got fired ( Read more... )

Happy Martin Luther King Day everyone!

26 hours, 53 minutes.

I can't believe we're into the last 48 hours of Bush's tenure. For such a long time it seemed so.far.away. And now here it is ( Read more... )

Every time I read about this amazing pilot who ditched his plane in the Hudson yesterday, my eyes start to tear in awe ( Read more... )