Monthly Archives: August 2006
double sigh
I went to bed at 9:30, feeling pooped. Then I tossed and turned for almost two hours before getting back up. Either it’s the coffee, the new job, or the weather. Sometimes I just can’t find the OFF switch for … Continue reading
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Belkins=Bella+Dawkins
Bella is back safe and sound! Chad said, I’ll get off the phone and give you some daughter/mom time. I said, It’s already over. Dawkins is here. Well, we did have a good hour of non-stop conversation, but now her … Continue reading
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anybody have a record player?
I take it back; it’s not a piece of a record, but a very flimsy whole record, the size of a single. And this is no average exhibition catalog, but a monumental historical record of sound in art (organized around … Continue reading
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I Heart Libraries (and librarians)
I.L.L. = Interlibrary Loan. This is a pretty incredible library service I have recently discovered. Libraries within California can actually request books from other participating libraries anywhere (in California, so far as I know) outside of their county. At my … Continue reading
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bizarro egg email I got
ZIPLOC OMELET Have guests write their name on a quart-size Ziploc freezer bag with permanent marker. Crack 2 eggs (large or extra-large) into the bag (not more than 2) shake to combine them. Put out a variety of ingredients such … Continue reading
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Roland Barthes' quote
This is what I am writing about right now: (Like a bad concert hall, affective space contains dead spots where the sound fails to circulate. – The perfect interlocutor, the friend, is he not the one who constructs around you … Continue reading
is there justus?
Only one page further in the thesis – but I pause a moment to give a Justus Motter update, as I see there has been a mild interest in my hi-desert test sites post, since “guest’s” new comment. Jus is … Continue reading
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my resolve
I resolve to stop my namby-pamby complaining. Listening to disc 5 of The Two Towers on my hour run gave me some perspective this morning. Heck, Gandalf survived fighting the Balrog and made his way back from the bowels of … Continue reading
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a poor me post
People all over are doing regular fun things tonight and I am home BATTLING DEMONS. Sad. I feel like I was dragging an elephant along, trying to get three (only three!!) pages written today. I had a popsiscle (=1 point), … Continue reading
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clever girl
Bella and my parents came back from France today, and by all accounts it was a great, very relaxing trip. Sounds like they played some fun games. In one game, everybody had a post-it stickie on his/her head, with the … Continue reading
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