*sighs* Don't you guys have your own place for that?

I do more of the, y'know, knitting and coffee....

But just for today, since you're my first visitor and all, we can put football on.

*goes to pop some pocorn*

Okay, my life update, for those of you who I haven't already pestered to death with this stuff:

- Had a complete and total blast in Calgary. Full report (and fun follow-up from friends) here. I'm really looking forward to WFC in Con Jose next year.

- Came home and quit my job. Full report on that fun little bit of jumping off a cliff here.

- Am now sitting on my couch a lot, hanging out here, causing all kinds of trouble.... and when I'm not doing that, I'm working on a book (which is fun, and for once, fun just for the sake of writing, not because I think it will someday rescue me from "real work"), and reading books. I'm re-reading Shadowmarch right now, and did you notice that on his map, Tad made a little abbreviation so it says "S'march castle"? And how he put us in the acknowledgments? I mean, how can you not love Tad? He makes his readers feel so appreciated.

-I still teach at Gold's Gym, but my two BodyFlow classes were just cancelled, so I'm just down to two Yoga classes a week. I do love yoga, but... still stings a bit, and I'll be nursing my wounds there for a while.

- My next job is probably going to be as (my usual fall-back) nanny, which I hope brings a little bit more ease back into my life and allows me to pursue writing a little bit more on the side, and maybe helps me to find a line of work that doesn't completely make me feel like a zombie.

Last edited by Marian (2008-11-15 20:59:56)

*gets out measuring tape*

22 by 16 inches.

You'll have to do your own metric conversions.

Canadian football eh?

And here I was thinking you were a civilised people who play rugby. :P

*pats the cat*

-X

*puts on a pot of coffee*

*picks up her knitting*

*brings a few plants from the 'Gardens to replace the not-so-green-ones*

*sprawls on the floor with a pile of index cards and school notes*

cyan wrote:

Oooh coffee!  *grabs a mug and sips*

Yes. Peets 101. Finest kind.

Thanks, Klynn, good to see you!

I'll note the coffee recommendation for when I'm employed and can splurge on good coffee again.

i'd be willing to send you a pound, next week. you can share it around the living room.

If Teyo plays for Calgary, then the answer is yes Marian.  The Calgary Stampeders will play the Montreal Alouettes at Olympic Stadium in Montreal next Sunday. 


Go Als Go!

Thanks, Sahi. :)

Okay, update!
***

[cross-posted to LJ]

****

No sign of impending employment. I am a little scared, but also resting in my Crazy New-Age Thought for the Day: I feel like universe wants me to clean my apartment, and open my heart to people around me, and then will give me a job.

****

I love Barack Obama. Just because I haven't said that once today, and it felt weird.
****

Twitters annoy the living daylights out of me. I try to avoid saying negative things about things people do who are on my LJ friends list, especially since I hardly hold blogs to terribly high standards, but I've been holding this one back for a few weeks now, and yesterday pushed me over the edge. At first I didn't even notice Twitters, because they just looked like gobbledeegook splattered in a little block, nonsense words. Then a friend mentioned he had Twitter, and described what was happening and how it showed up and I started keeping an eye out for it. Now I hate it... loathe it.

It reminds me of the first time I saw any LiveJournal - and what kept me away from it for years, I might add - the guy had posted, "I just went down to the hot dog stand for lunch, and they were out of mustard," and his next post was, a half-hour later, was, "The hot dog was pretty good, even without mustard." Seriously!

The ability to say something worthwhile in one sentence is beyond 95% of human beings, or at least on the average day. "I am about to go under anesthesia" would be interesting from just about anyone, just as "I am about to eat a hot dog" is boring from just about everyone.

What made me go over the edge, you ask? I was watching CNN at the gym yesterday and they were posting Twitters at the bottom of the screen. Here's one: "Okay, CNN, we get it, homes are burning, we get it."

My first two reactions are, "Why are you watching CNN if you don't want to hear the same news repeated over and over?" and "CNN, what makes you think we care what this moron thinks?"

I hate this new world of technology sometimes. I hope we evolve past this phase. I hope we grow beyond being people who make phone calls just because we can. (One seatmate on my last trip: "Hi, mom, my plane just landed, I'll call you when I'm in the terminal." "Hi, Joey, my plane just landed, how are you?" "Hi, my plane just landed. I said, my plane just landed....") I hope we stop throwing our words out as fast as we can, wherever we can.

*Owen wanders in looks around*
I gotta agree with you many people my age can't wait for anything. Please don't get me started on facebook, one of my friends puts almost all the pictures she takes on it, which is fine with me, except that she takes a lot of me, so I don't know how many pics of me are out there for any one to look at. Scary isn't it.
*Owen curls up in the corner and falls asleep.*