Well, maybe not quite yet (she said, tentatively, recalling the famous April Fool's day storm of 1997 ( Read more... )

I find myself living in very interesting times.

That's all for now, but more (somewhere, sometime) as it develops...

(could I possibly be posting *less* frequently? Probably, but honestly -- I'm not going to purposefully try that on for size.)

This Thursday, 6/25, I'm going to the scout house for the dance, which should be gosh darned excellent. If you want to dance with me or in a line with me, now you know where I'll be.

( In contrast, during the past month... )

this weekend, on "wait, wait, don't tell me!", this book was featured as the CORRECT answer to the "bluff the listener" game.

i am very, very, very tempted to buy it for my father, a 30 year high school english teacher, who absolutely adores everything about the original of the book. something tells me that this would be effectively like buying ( Read more... )

something i've been actively pondering for a few weeks, now:

at what point do we stop being a product of our environments, and our environments start to be a product of us?

(i've written up some thoughts on this and i'll post them at some point (soon? :) ) but i'm curious to see what others come up with.)

"With a prompter in every cellar window whispering comebacks, shy people would have the last laugh." -- the narrator

(this is the only quote available on the IMDB's quote page, and i don't have the movie handy to quote directly. it's a bit lacking in context, but the idea is that shy people often don't speak up because the circumstance leaves ( Read more... )

one very frequent theme in the responses to "what should i do in 2009" was dancing: doing more of it (excellent suggestions), inviting the spirit of dance into my life in other ways (a very interesting thought, and not far off some of my now-ancient thoughts about dance from the mid-90s, when i began... i wrote at one point something along the ( Read more... )

i have pics of the recent project to share. hopefully i'll figure out how to get these in here... the one thing i *don't* have is a picture of the whole, completed, finished scarf, correctly blocked, all ends woven in, and looking as it should on a mannequin or something like that. whoops! i'm an amateur. i'll get it right someday ( Read more... )

... by the thoughtfulness that went into people's replies. tears appeared, were shed, and my brain has been activated. thank you, one and all ( Read more... )

i'm never sure these days if anyone is reading my journal. i've dropped to posting very infrequently, and so i wouldn't be surprised if the readership has dropped accordingly ( Read more... )