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Maybe they'd have to hold each other when it rose, all organe and full and close. Maybe that's where our romantic notions about the moon first came from. Two people holding each other to keep their hearts from breaking, because everybody they knew was dying in the cold rocks and dust piles a quarter million miles away...
The Brothers K
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tirsdag, september 02, 2003
This is a post of a bunch of short blurbs that I woke up to this morning :)
1. Can anybody explain to me why a song which I don't recognize is stuck in my head? I think it came from Princess Mononoke, because all it is is a chorus of children singing, "Hime hime hime" over and over. I also think I could have composed it in my dreams last night.
2. My bike has a flat tire. Completely, utterly, gone. I filled it up last night because it was flat on the weekend, and it was flat again this morning. So flat that I can literally pull it off the wheel rim without any difficulty whatsoever. Sigh. Guess I have to go buy a new tire. :( Luckily, I'm saved from having to walk anywhere because my roommate (who is in Belgium) left me her bike & car keys. So I'm just using her stuff. But she's about 5 inches shorter than me, so it's a little interesting riding her bike. :)
3. Life without the roommates is bittersweet. I have all this room to myself (yay hanging out and having full reign of the tv and computer stereo!!!), but I trashed it pretty quickly with my stuff. So trashed such that I can no longer find my favorite jacket, my black Old Navy fleece. I know you know the one I'm talking about because I wear it just about everwhere. Sad times for all, I know. But perhaps it was time to invest in a new jacket anyways. Its smell was beginning to take a life of its own.
4. I think the number one thing I love about working at CSLI is the fact that I can get up at 10am, shower and get dressed in a hurry so that I can get to work "on time" (that is, at a reasonable hour), arrive at work...and realize that I'm still the first person there before 11am. Ah, the life of a linguist is a languid one. :)
5. I think Labor Day is one of my absolute favorite holidays. Ranks right up there with Christmas and the 4th of July. Dave & I went to the beach yesterday and while it was not exactly my idea of beach weather at Half Moon Bay (that is, sunny and warm), it was still an extraordinary vacation away from work and school and responsibilities. We even got to see horses! (I've always always wanted to learn to ride and have a horse.) Then we came back and had dinner with the priests, Father Carl, Father Patrick, and Father Parsons. That was utterly amazing. Those guys are really fun to just hang out and chat with. We had superb kabobs and salad and even marshmallow salad (I don't know what the real name for the dish is, but it's that sweet marshmallow thing that has little bits of fruit in it. In Virginia it's pale green, but it seems like everywhere else it's just white plus fruit bit colors). It makes me happy to attend parties like that and feel so welcome in their home.
6. For some reason, I can't just stop writing when I'm done with the meat of my post. Do you guys feel a compulsion to have a closing statement - even just a simple, "Well, that's all for now. I'll write more later!"?? I can't seem to sign off on a post without saying something to that effect. Indeed, it feels so wrong that I'd probably go back and change it later. I think this will suffice as the end of my blurbs. :)
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