I'm not complaining, mind you. Still, my day is booked from 9 am to 5:30 today ( Read more... )

JF and I just spent three weeks driving to and around Newfoundland, camping, staying at bed and breakfasts and with friends. I found myself thinking, just like in the days of yore, about the process of travel, about the technology of travel and about the sheer joy of it ( Read more... )

I've been thinking about balance. Mostly because I'm definitely out of it. Working LOTS of hours, sometimes spinning my wheels doing it so that the forward motion feels more like driving a rutted road where I have to swerve right and left just to avoid being bounced into a ditch. Eating the wrong things and then not liking the way my body is ( Read more... )

I want to take notes on the weekend I've just had-- wishing I could spend all morning just writing about it, but not having that luxury. [Update: I ended up having enough time to get the range of my thoughts down here before Time To Go To Work ( Read more... )

So I came here to write about my werid weekend and I ended up getting celebrity distracted. The piece about the Kiwi law students doing a parody of some nasty song about women-- the law students' parody was pulled from YouTube but the celebrity nasty piece stays. Ain't that just the way it is ( Read more... )

Tristesse translates into "sadness" in English, and maybe that can sum up what I'm feeling this morning. The trip was just too short; I left my guy over there when it only makes sense for us to be together; the kitchen--having been occupied by Raf--needed an hour of rehab before I could make coffee; there is admin work that now cannot be put off ( Read more... )

I've been the target of a BUNCH of spam the past week or so-- four or five spam comments a day. So I'm going Friends Only for awhile. I don't much like that option, but this is ridiculous.