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My eyelids are made of lead.
So, I'm working in New Delhi until early November, nine and a half hours in the future. It is 1:25 AM, IST, now. The vegetarian curry I had for brunch is making me sleepy, but I am trying to fight sleep because I am trying to stay on my EST schedule. Plus, I have to wait 'til eight EST to take my meds (including the anti-malarial, Malaprone ( Read more... ) -
Hermitsville
I called my doctor who told me two things ( Read more... ) -
Lately
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work-centered
Friday Morning, walking in to work, in the parking lot: A frog the size of my fist wrapped in the opposite hand did not so much greet as startle me as I walked the cement path (bordered on either side by grass, in turn bordered by the lot's copious asphalt) because I expected more robins on sapling branches - not this still and steady-gazing ( Read more... ) -
Undisappearing, Again
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My annual appraisal went as I'd expected, except for the bonus part. I'd expected less than I got, being ata financial company in these times. My manager mused that I picked a bad year to make such a positive turnaround. I did not spend/waste long imagining how much more it could have been ( Read more... ) -
an idea
[pronoun] [verb - past tense] into [article(?)] [place/noun], whisper-soft.
ex: "We stole into the meadow, whisper-soft."
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I awoke with sadness today, and I haven't shaken it.
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"The fullest moon in years," she called it.
I could see the corona through shifting grey.
I'll have to see a fuller moon
Some other clearer day.
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while helping - product placement
She is trying to get me excited about helping her with her Final Project. When I poo-poohed the offer of Miller Lite, she offered Absolut vodka and frozen Minute Maid orange juice.
"I'll call that a butter knife," I say, "because that's a ghetto screw driver." -
(as of now)
Some of you know I was going to Utah for a wedding. I went and witnessed and was happy. To love is a gift and to see one so loved happy is a greater gift ( Read more... ) -
sundrette
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Last Saturday: I enjoy moving. I carry too many boxes, rush up and down stairs and otherwise have a lovely time over-exerting and dehydrating myself. The tension in my neck and shoulders remains as a souvenir. Thanks to blueflamedfire for the invitation to help. The only negative was that I know know dishes to wash afterward ( Read more... )