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Yes, I'm back. Had a wonderful, relaxing time. I got more relaxed than I have been in a long time. I don't think I could actually live without cable and broadband like Q does, but the media diet fast was good for me.
I'm really, really bad at remembering to take pictures. I remembered to take the camera with me, but the only time I was moved to take pictures was on the beach, and all I had with me at the time was the camera on my Treo. So here you go.
Sue wrestling with Sebastian while Jeremy and Rowan look on.
Sue and the kids climbing down rocks. Note ocean in background.
Water. Lots of it. Whales live there.
More thoughts on the trip over the weekend.
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Quote of the day
The amount of time spent on this project is disproportionate to how much I care about it, not to mention how much it will impact our... goals.
-rrm
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Can't. Control. Mouth.
I think that this news article in Crain's is by far the most... uh... interesting... that I've seen about the Hundert broo-ha-ha. Bully for Maya R. Payne and Shannon Mortland for getting those quotes from Krauss and Gordon. I particularly like the image of Krauss commenting from the Carribean. (Palm trees swaying the background?) I know, I know, he's there for a workshop. It's still a great image--perhaps better than him in his office easy chair, cardboard Spock and Captain Kirk and inflatible Scream guy backing him up, when WKYC interviewed him about the vote.
Hey. Is this the kind of blog posting that gets people fired?
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Going off...
Yesterday morning, well after my alarm clock failure and first coffee spill on a white sweater... just after the announcement of the latest chapter of the Hundert broo-ha-ha, and just before my second coffee spill on said white sweater... I started to feel the overwhelming need to get out of Cleveland.
I discovered a cheap airfare to Portland, ME, and decided to visit my friend Q. With cursor on the "book" button, a placed a cell phone call to Q, and IMed to my boss. And so I'm off to Maine tomorrow for a few days.
For many years after college, Q and I lived in the same city. There was something comforting about having her near, being able to just show up on her doorstep in tears after a bad date or a bad day.
Being a grownup really sucks in some ways. There's so much busy-ness that I have to schedule dates with my husband. Or maybe the world has just changed. I hear my peers, parents of young children, discussing playdates. I don't remember a lot of playdates. Oh, maybe with cousins who didn't live closeby or friends who had moved. But regular play could be found by running down the street, knocking on a door and asking if so-and-so could come out to play.
Maybe I just miss that spontenaity. In the day to day, there's this predictable, precarious balance of routine obligations, daily stresses, the things I do to unwind--unwind a bit--just enough to maintain equilibrium. In the week to week, there are the shrink sessions, recovery from the shrink sessions, the workdays, the Saturdays partially lost to catching up on sleep. At least in the last month, there's been no shocking news of sick parents. Perhaps that's why I've embraced this wobbly routine.
I feel sort of bad about leaving my hub this weekend. I think he needs a break too. But he'll have spring break in a few weeks. This summer we'll have a vacation together. And maybe this weekend away is just what I need to get into a smoother groove.
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Well, jeez. Had I known, I might have just packed up a kid and joined y'all. I had nothing going on this weekend, really. Ah, well. Next time, perhaps.
Hope it was a hoot.
Sorry, A. It was a last minute thing. Next time we'll give you a call. BTW it was fabulous and I feel waaaay better.
Q (and, of course, Maine) have a knack for that.
Please do give a holler next time you find yourself up there. We're planning on crashing the place sometime this summer. Maybe. If we can find a good time.
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I have subscribed to too many feeds in Bloglines. Way too many feeds. But how to pare them down -- that's the question.
I frequently think of getting rid of BBC -- it doesn't often tell my something I haven't already learned from the NYTimes. But, oh those unique tidbits I get from BBC! Who else is going to tell me that drug smugglers are using puppies as mules, or that US customs found a human voodoo head in luggage inbound from Haiti. Severed human heads are "hazardous material" -- who knew?
Need a reason to take your multivitamins? Fruits, Veggies Not as Nutritious As When Truman Was President
Need a reason to distrust congress more? Congress caught making false entries in Wikipedia. Maybe the solution is to make your congressional representatives responsible for a wiki, since buy[ing] your DRM-loving senator an iPod has been found to reverse thier opionions of DRM.
If this guy ever gets his underwater environment up and running, I think I'd like to visit.
Case recently hosted David Callahan, author of Cheating Culture, to speak for Integrity Week. Plaigery, just one of the many types of cheating that Callahan discussed, is a topic that now has its own academic journal. What a sad sign of the times.
And now for something completely different...
The Dante's Inferno Test has sent you to the First Level of Hell - Limbo!
Here is how you matched up against all the levels:
Take the Dante's Inferno Hell Test
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I am going to limbo (very high)! Reminds me of a George Carlin sketch on his album the seven words you can't say on the radio.
Jon Erik Rocks! with Mozart, Vivaldi, Beethoven, etc.
My husband finally did it!
When he first started as the choir director of Geneva Jr/Sr High, he inherited library full of pop music, which is pretty much what the students and audiences expected from the choirs. Last night, he blew everyone away with a program Renaissance, Baroque and Classical Choral Music from Vienna, accompanied by a professional string quartet, an oboeist, and a Continuo/Piano player.
It was a great way to celebrate the HS choir's first gig in the new school auditorium.
So way to go honey!!
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I *hated* playing pop music in high school. I'm glad someone is trying to broaden the kids' (and parents) taste.
Yeah. It's a worthy battle. The kids, and even many of the parents, lobby for the stuff they know best. When he taught in rural South Carolina, it was gospel. At least there is a great body of spirituals that can bridge that expectation. At Geneva, he's found the best way to handle it is to ask the kids, "do you really want me to teach you Brittany Spears?"
Let's face it. Choral arrangements of pop songs often suck. Musical theatre and stuff like Motown is really the best middle ground with this audience.
Thoughts about my Mind, Part 2
For the last couple weeks, I've had ridiculous pain in my neck and shoulders. It started as a stiff neck, turned into something much worse, and has since subsided into simple sore muscleage.
I was at the psychiatrist and she gave me a muscle relaxant to take at bedtime. Oh. My. God. I can't remember the last time I slept as well as I did last night. I had so much more energy, focus and cheer.
It's easy to think of the mind as a computer, but I recently though of an extension to that analogy. Between the hardware of biochemistry and neurology, and the software that enables us to do all the things we do is the operating system. What I think of as the OS, Jung would have called the personal unconciousness, our personal myths, world view, values, our beliefs about the world and the way we fit into it.
It's sometimes hard to explain therapy to people. Most people don't get why the stuff in my head that doesn't work for me just can't be turned off like a peice of bad freeware. But therapy is more like sorting out a problem with the operating system. Figure out the problem processes. Replace the missing drivers. Uninstall the junk. Reinstall everything else. Dig up those obscure configuration options and tweak them til the damn thing works. Tweak. Reboot. Tweak. Reboot.
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Hommage to Wallace and Gromit
I did the most embarrassing thing the other day. Upon reading that there is a move afoot to build a Wallace and Gromit statue in Bristol, UK, I actually sent a message to the Bristol city government expressing my support for the idea.
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Ball Lightening
The Internet is a weird virtual place.
Recently, I stumbled across a news of the first ball lightening generator.
My fascination with ball lightening, which you can make, derives from the fact that my grandmother was struck by ball lightening. Although so dispute the existence of ball lightening, I tend to belive. After all there were scorch marks on Gram's floor where the ball lightening grounded through her.
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Good for you, glad you had a relaxing time in Maine!
Visual Update
This
is slowly turning into something like this
Shall I wear it when I go here?
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I always suspected that the Dalai Lama is a cat man. After all, he's one cool cat. Now we have proof.
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