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Not News
It's quiet here... too quiet. Crickets are chirping. Plants are wilting. Hair is curling. Humidity is humidifying. What lone wanderer will charge through those double glass doors and rescue me?
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4:10 a.m.
Good morning, campers. Today it's going to be 96 degrees, so wear white!
I've been awake for a long time, and biked to work in blessed 73-degree weather after eating alien probiotic cereal with blueberries. It's going to be an empty day at the office. -
Bennett Park
Tomorrow, a manufactured home park in Moorhead, MN, is supposed to become a cooperative. This after two years of hair-tearing legal battles interspersed with wailing and righteous anger. The current owner of the park, Jack, is your basic top-hat-and-twirling-mustache kind of guy--I bet he's tying a woman to some railroad tracks right now. He was ( Read more... ) -
Women Who Run with the Wolves
There's a copy of this on the top shelf at Kate's house, written by a Ph.D. of some kind. There is giggling coming from the kitchen muffled by Fur Elise. I fell asleep this afternoon and had crazy vivid dreams--Nelson Mandela singing, those dream cliffs I can always find by rowboat when I leave Forest Home, serial murderers ( Read more... ) -
As you can see, it is all about me.
The Good Doctor talked me out of adopting one of the nine little cats, for now--mostly I worry that Wax would get some kind of uncared-for cat disease. Plus, this doctor may move into my apartment, someday soon, bringing with him dozens of books, several plants, some wall-hangings, and a bicycle. Any minimalism I had established will be instantly ( Read more... ) -
Urgh.
It's pretty messed up when you can't send a press release without running it by your Executive Director. When she happens to be gone all the time. Murgh. -
Broccoli Soup and Diet Coke and Cats
Oh, and a rice crispy bar for laughs. I'm considering adopting a 3-legged cat or a cute manx from my cat-ridden
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Nuts
I've been reading in my psychology book that "expertise" takes an average of 10 years to accomplish--that's 10 years of 10 to 12-hour days of practice. And that often, really smart people don't reach a level of expertise because they get bored with practicing all the time. Also, one of the biggest cognitive errors that people make is * ( Read more... ) -
Celebrity sightings
Last weekend, with the Good Doctor and J, out in the suburban wunderlands. I don't recall what Miep was wearing, because I was too focused on the crackers and cheese to notice, but she did little dances for us to ABBA songs as her red curls bobbed up and down. She had the creepiest little iPod bear, whose paws lit up red to the baseline. Later, our ( Read more... )
