| It's about time. |
[Dec. 8th, 2006|09:22 am] |
Thanks to Marianna for the nudge. Has it really been 21 weeks!
Got our first appreciable snow overnight, so I left the house early this morning, expecting all the bad drivers to be amazed at the weather and to have completely forgotten how to drive in the snow, just like they did last year and the year before that. But it looks like they all stayed home, because the roads were nearly empty and I got to work early enough to write this over my first cup of coffee.
Talking about time, is it really so close to Christmas that I feel behind in my preparations. Every year I promise myself to get things mailed to the family in England before December 1st. Never happens, and again I find myself at the post office to find out when is the latest date I can send my parcels.
Christmas has taken on a double-meaning as I get older. It's not so much now about giving presents to the people in my life, although it is that, but now Christmas has become the time of year when I think about all the people who were in my life and now aren't. I always wonder what people like Jo and Louise and Alison and Sharon are doing and who they're doing it with and if they're happy and hoping that they are.
Every New Year's day I start a new book. Not sure what it'll be this year, plus I have to finish the book I'm on now before then, which is hard, because it's thick and boring and I'm only half way done. Maybe Marianna can suggest a book I should read. Guarantee. If she suggests a book, I'll read it, how's that. I once read a book just because I saw a person in the subway reading it, and they seemed so enthralled in it I just had to read it too. Evelyn Waugh, A Handful of Dust. Well worth the read. |
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| Bored at work today |
[Jul. 13th, 2006|02:26 pm] |
Work is very boring today. Is it supposed to be like that? Is that why they call the money they give you "compensation". I'm being compensated for being so bored? I always thought it was compensation for not being somewhere more fun doing something more enjoyable. Work CAN be enjoyable or fun, but not today. No way. |
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