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I had a distant colleague (meaning she works in another part of the organization) leave a voice message that said "Call me immediately!" and slam the phone down.

Yeah, I think that one can wait.

The rest of the day has been pretty good...I feel like I'm getting a lot done without too much stress. I got a new boom box for my kitchen and rented three movies (Beowulf, Darjeeling Express, that movie with Dustin Hoffman and the [dreamy:] Natalie Portman in toy store) at lunch. I teach in seventeen minutes, then again at 4, but I'm prepared and good to go.

I haven't heard anything about the primaries today...almost forgot they were taking place. I'll check the news tonight.

I'm listening to Sparklehorse in my office.

I'm almost finished with "Kitchen Confidential" and I'm liking it a lot.

How's your day going, people? What's on your mind?

I hate the flu. It sucks.

On the bright side, today is the first day in a week that I've been able to smell coffee brewing.

Watched Ratatouille last night. It's so cute. We had the Xbox game which I played over the summer. Then we got the Xbox 360 and it wasn't compatible. So I got a the new 360 Ratatouille game and started playing it this morning. It's different from the other one. So far I like it.

I had enough energy today to do a load of laundry! Yay! Hopefully that is a sign that I'm getting better! I've got a hair cut appointment tomorrow so that means actually putting on makeup and leaving the house for the first time since I got sick. I'm kind of excited. Dare I hope I will have enough energy to make a trip to Target?

I'm becoming disinterested in my book clubs. I used to love them and I still do love the discussions and the insights my friends can make. But I'm getting tired of not being able to read whatever I want because I've got book club reads "due." But I love the people so I hesitate to quit the book clubs.

I just found out that some of my friends went to a party on Saturday that I didn't know about. I was sick so I wouldn't have been able to go anyway, but it would have been nice to be invited. I'm hoping it was a party given by someone I don't know.

Right on Sarah, another girl who plays video games!! I'm a Playstation girl, but never mind that...

The day is going fine, really good actually. I am nearly done with actual work, I have a project but that can be worked on in bits as it isn't due until the 11th.

I'm having fun with my new car, one of my bosses just took it for a test drive and they've been praising me all day for getting a great deal "for a girl"! Ha!

I'm a little hungry though, and my afternoon meeting just cancelled, I may have to try and pick back up that lunch date I turned down.

I'm having a great day, thanks. The morning was filled with very pleasant conversation and fine weather (I think it hit 65 here). The poetry group met today and somehow that always makes me feel good. I'm the most illiterate and unpoetic person there but they pretend not to notice which is nice. At the moment two children are sleeping and two are still enroute from school. This is the soft, calm hour of the day for me. Alison Krauss is singing Let Me Touch You for Awhile and I'm drinking my tea, not thinking about the brochure I'm supposed to have designed and printed by nine tomorrow.

Wow, so many of you are in writing groups...that's really great. Good luck tonight, King. It seems as if you find one or two cool people maybe you can connect and build from there.

Wow, you have two who still nap, J?

I might need a new car soon, too. I have a 95 Saturn with over 150,000 miles on it...but I like not having a car payment, and it's not like I'm worried about looking cool these days.

King, with a story called Tijuana Cockfight you could have fun anywhere!

Yes, two still nap. I'm planning to make them nap till they leave home. The almost four year old MUST nap. Unlike my other sweet natured children she is an evil, vicious creature when tired.

Your flu does suck, Sarah. I hope you're feeling 100% again soon. Now if you'll excuse me I have to go wash my hands.

King... I think I just fell a little bit in love with you. God forbid I should ever see you play music, I'd be certain to be irretrievably smitten.

Writing groups are like a box of chocolates.... wait, that's too cliche... start again...

Writing groups are like getting a mammogram... oh wait... you're a boy... start again...

Writing groups are like juggling cats... sometimes you get your face scratched off and sometimes you come home with a tin cup full of change. Either way, the most important thing to remember is... people who consider themselves expert cat jugglers are still, well, cat jugglers. And you know what they say about taking advice from a cat juggler, right? Uh huh... I think you know what I'm saying.

it's his ever so adorable nervous worry that the new writers won't like him! Twinned with the musical genius and the love of Patches... it's an irresistable combination.

See there King darlin, yer going to have all of us girls with crushes before long...playa

How'd it go last night, King?

I tried to stay up last night to hit a 9:40PM showing of "Juno" but I fell asleep before nine.

You can't handle my rock and roll lifestyle.

I might slack today. 80% chance of slacking.

:::wishing she'd been roaming the streets of Olympia so she could run into King and form an improvisational writing group::::

More like an improvisational...

No, it's too easy. I have standards.

Today has been ok. I worked out to "The Office", worked on some project proposals, decided my mind was useless today, tried to watch "Beowulf" but grew bored, turned on The Mountain Goats and cleaned two of the upstairs bedrooms. Onto the front porch. In forty minutes I need to leave for Costco before I pick up the kids from school.

The Mountain Goats are fantastic, I agree, King. I'm listening to "Heretic Pride" now. That song is from "All Hail West Texas", right?

This morning my oldest son and I hit the coffee shop to read. We order Italian sodas, sit in chairs by a fire, and hang out. Despite the fact I've been bitching about this long, horrible winter a lot, I realized that we're due for a thaw this week and this weekend will probably be the last real winter weekend of the season. Now, I'm not quite going to miss winter but I take a perverse pride in having survived a huge motherf--ker of a nasty stretch. Anyway, while looking out the window, onto the harbor, I saw a woman recollect her dog after getting coffee. She held her coffee while her dog jumped all over her, and she looked so happy. Everything was right in the world. The bright sun hung behind her...she was practicaly in silhouette. My blood pressure dropped about fifty points. Everything was write in the world. There's a poem in there somewhere.

Question: Why are so many girls who work in coffee shops so damn cute? Am I the only one to have noticed this phenomenon?

My daughter and I are going out to run some errands. There may be coffee shops involved. I'll have to report back about the state of cuteness in our local bistros. Somehow I think we have a different phenomenon happening around these parts.

I miss going to coffee shops. I haven't been able to stand the idea of a cappuccino since I got sick and I've still got a lingering ickiness.

I thought coffee shops couldn't open with at least one or two cute girls employed. Isn't it a law?

We have a few coffee shops around here...I get the feeling my sons will be hanging out there as they get older. They'll figure it out.

Anthony, I remember you seeing lots of cute girls in art museums as well!

Thanks, J! Now I feel like a perv:)

And airports, J. Museums, airports, and coffee shops. Hm. All this makes me sound a bit...how shall I put it...overtly observant.:) Now that I'm older, though, I notice these patterns more as phenomena than anything, honestly:) I don't go to aiports, museums, or art museums any more than I did before, although I will recommend them to my sons:)

Well, we must have a much different phenomenon happening here in our town. At our local Peet's Coffee mostly what you find are cranky butch dykes in comfortable shoes and pasty hippie guys looking like they need to eat some protein. I'm filing a complaint with the department of cute girls. Where are they? Certainly not in a Peet's.

Overtly observant - uh-huh.

Oh, I'm just teasing you. Guys who can find and appreciate cuteness in a wide variety of girls wherever they go are much preferred to guys who find very few acceptable.

I'm told the University of Delaware, which is near us, has an overabundance of cute girls. Possibly a higher ratio of cute girls than on any other college campus. Should I have some shipped out for internships at Peet's?

Ok, I'm going to keep my mouth shut about the girls from Delaware...

Today has been decent. I read in the coatroom at church again. It's quite comfy. I also woke in the middle of the night and witnessed the official "daylight savings time" change while watching "Blade Runner: The Final Cut". This afternoon I watched "Beowulf", which got better as it proceeded. I'm tired as hell now. I guess I needed a day where I sat around and watched movies.

You read in the coatroom at church? Maybe you need to find a different church...

maybe God hides in the coatroom too. You never know.

I’m New to Axis Mundi and to GoodReads (waving hi). I’m not a web socialite, I tried mySpace but failed after realizing that the goal of that application is to collect ‘friends’. Oh well. I know a lot of people who are into posting comments and blogging, which has inspired me over the years to try a few different blogs of my own, like – ‘LOL Plants’ and ‘Cheese- that stinky crap’, without success. So, I am going to take a stab at participating in this social environment, please be patient with me, I’m new to this stuff. Also, I got involved in this site because I have had a reading dry spell after I became completely absorbed in “1491: America Before Columbus” but then lost it, and can’t get myself to buy a new copy and can’t find a book to mentally replace it. Oh, and because I am bored. But enough about me and why I am here, now without further ado, I will attempt to answer the latest question posted on this forum.

The question at hand is ‘So how's your day going? What's on your mind?’. My answer, “good, nothing much”…

Yo Derek, welcome to our little piece of the planet. Make yourself to home. Dude... go to the library and get yourself that 1491 book to read. Don't give up! It sounds like an awesome read! And then you can review it for all of us. : )

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now i got to go

Sarah said: You read in the coatroom at church? Maybe you need to find a different church ...

Alas I have never seen my preacher's eyes, for when he prays he closes them and when he preaches mine.

Welcome, Derek! The key to blogging and/or commenting here, in my eyes, is transcending the idea that the mundane doesn't carry meaning. Your post fit perfectly. When Charissa talks about the crap in her yard, for example, you never know where the conversation might lead, what that crap might mean for the rest of us, and what else might bubble to the conversational surface.

Oh, I like my church. I'm a Unitarian Universalist, the best scenario for my family and I, although I've discovered that every congregation has its issues and UU congregations are perhaps a bit more self-congratulatory for their own good. I'll leave that for another post. My kids learn about all religions, articulate their beliefs, etc.

I just don't always like to attend the full-blown services. Today my sons were in their classes and I didn't want to enter the regular service part so I snuck in the coatroom with "Sputnik Sweetheart" and read for forty-five minutes. Heck, that's a pretty good religious experience for a Sunday morning. I'm not complaining.

Your church is pretty high-brow with a coat room! Hmm.

Reading in one is a MUCH better idea than what they're always doing in them in movies and TV shows - ESPECIALLY in a church. Eh-hem.

:D heh.