This is sort of a follow-up to my post from a couple of days ago. I’ve learned that if I state my intention to do a follow-up or a related post, it almost never happens. But if I had stated my intention, it would have gone something like this: “I have more to say about [...]
Monthly Archives: January 2010
reading Rorty
January 25, 2010 – 3:45 pm
I’ve recently pulled out my Richard Rorty books. I first read him in my junior year, with Dr. Hyman (Core 3 part 2… one of the best classes I took), and I quickly fell in love with him. The kind of love where half the time I want to shake him till his teeth rattle, [...]
kind of like the princess and the pea. maybe?
January 24, 2010 – 10:02 pm
Yesterday the plan was to be working in the morning and babysitting at night, with a long afternoon to myself. Got a call first thing in the morning from my manager asking if I could cover the two afternoon birthday parties for my co-worker whose granddad was in the hospital. Of course the answer was [...]
love and teddy bears
January 19, 2010 – 8:45 pm
My teddy bear’s head started to fall off last night.
It’s almost funny, because of the timing. I’ve had stuffed animals fall apart before, but this is the one I’ve had the longest and hugged the closest, and while he’s certainly aged, in 25 years he hasn’t lost so much as a tuft of fur. And [...]
Thursday
January 14, 2010 – 9:07 am
Suffered early-morning insomnia for the second day in the row. I am not pleased with this trend. My mind was spinning both times, but I think it’s a case of thinking-because-I’m-awake rather than awake-because-I’m-thinking. It would be on my two long work days, too.
I never did get the hang of Thursdays. – Arthur Dent
When I [...]
Rock star
January 12, 2010 – 3:28 pm
You guys, you guys! I cleaned the kitchen, and I got a bunch of work done on NU! If I manage to run a load of laundry before bed, I will have accomplished my entire to-do list for today! And that doesn’t really ever happen. (In fact, I’m thinking maybe I should add a couple [...]
Waiting in the void
January 8, 2010 – 3:00 pm
You remember, last post, how I said “I don’t like waiting in the void”? That was, um, an understatement. I really just don’t cope with it. If I can’t see some glimmer of a hint that what I’m waiting for is coming, I can’t believe that it ever will. I usually exercise my over-capable imagination [...]
birds and paper bags
January 5, 2010 – 8:17 pm
So there’s this Fiona Apple song — possibly my favorite of her songs, for how often it seems to accord with my own thoughts. It’s about craving and reaching and not getting and finding that you were reaching for the wrong thing anyway and what the hell? All of which happens to me a lot.
It’s [...]
I am trying to come up with a title that isn’t “planes, trains, and automobiles.” With only partial success.
January 4, 2010 – 12:36 pm
After a lively text-message conversation with a friend of mine who was stranded in New York last night, along with a bajillion other people, I’m thinking again about trains. Trains are such lovely things. My brother and I rode Amtrak home from DC last summer, and oh the space! The big windows! The fun of [...]
How journalling saved my life: also, dropping the other shoe for once
January 3, 2010 – 11:22 pm
So I don’t think it came across too much, but I spent the first 33 hours of 2010 (as well as the last 3 of 2009) feeling pretty rotten. Anxious, moody, depressed, desperate. Blech. There are particular things in my life I was responding to that triggered those feelings, but we don’t need to talk [...]
