Monthly Archive: January 2004

The snow appears to be blowing in all directions at once. It’s light out with that sort of diffused whiteness everywhere like it’s all just reflection or smoke and mirrors. If you went outside, the snow would snicker with glee and swoop inside your coat sleeves and under your collar and between the buttons of your coat, in effect telling you “We win! we win!” You’d have to pound it hard and repeatedly with a shovel to make it calm down and get the hell out of your way. If you went outside, it would harry you, blowing in your...

Ozswede and my brother sent me lots of good advice about my work dilemma (among other things), for which I’m very grateful, although the urge to squash my brother is still deviling me. 🙂 Today wasn’t nearly as bad, and work was made better by 2 things. First the girl in charge of our seating plan came and let me know she was more than happy to re-seat me wherever I would feel most comfortable. We talked about it for awhile, and ended up deciding that the 4 of us in the department would wait to pin down our names...

It snowed and snowed and snowed last night, wild whirling white flakes for hours. Already at 10:00 p.m., Anders’ previous shoveling efforts were completely undone and recovered with several inches of perfect powder. This morning the damage looks to be about 5-6 inches. Snow is a constant wonder. Every time it’s equally amazing. Nothing frozen solid, despite the -11 temperature. Both kids took their sleds to school. Martin’s class (and the entire school of classes above him) are going to Krankesjön (or Cranky Lake, as I like to translate it) to iceskate and sled and grill hotdogs this morning. They...

Anders stayed home with Karin this morning as she still had a low-grade fever even though the coughing seems to be done. It was snowing when Martin and I left, and it snowed nearly all morning and into lunchtime. Big white fluffy flakes, good for snowball packing. It stopped a couple of hours ago and as if by magic, the skies cleared to bright blue and the sun came out. Sun shining on snow ought to make for happiness, but I’m at work where the frowny face has taken over and settled like a mask. 🙁 Thank goodness Jes6ica posted...

Mosaic Minds is taking off and we are looking for submissions. If you are interested, here is the list of themes through October. Please consider writing a feature article, a poem or a story or contributing artwork or photography. Look back through your older stuff, maybe you have something that just needs a bit of polishing that will work for one of the upcoming themes! We also highlight blogs and links of the week so if you know of something that might be of interest, please let me know. Deadline for each month’s submission is the 15th of the month...

The amount of time I can spend online just reading other people’s writing is truly mind-boggling. Especially when some of them, and you know who you are, insist on writing stories and essays that are so incredibly wonderful that I have to finish them all before I can turn my attention to other things. Home from work today with Karin the coughing machine, who continues to cough non-stop despite liberal doses of cough medicine and regular applications of children’s Tylenol. Even the chicken noodle soup at lunch didn’t slow the coughing down. I gave her a cough drop at one...

List the good things about the day in bullet points! My Tuesday morning massage which reprieved me from a half hour of the meeting I was stuck in today from 8:30 until 1:30 Planning a dinner date for next week with our friends Emily & Martin Karin’s coughing non-stop and running a low-grade fever, meaning we’re probably staying home tomorrow (not a good thing that she’s sick or that we’ll probably have a bad night, but I can stay home from work with a clear conscience 🙂 A phone call from my mom, during which both kids talked to her...

Last night’s meeting was an energy kick. I went into town right after work and scored two books at the lovely Hamrelius bookstore which has great old-timey bookstore atmosphere and a chimey bell when you open the glass-paned door. Tracey Chevalier’s new one, The Lady and the Unicorn, was out in paperback, and since I’ve been reading all these lists of great novels of the 20th century, etc., that I haven’t read, I picked up Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway as well. 🙂 Then I had sushi (what else?!) and it was soooooooooo gooood. There were several new people at the...

Man, people are such assholes. 🙁 Just saw this on LJ news: Password Scam 2004-01-26 Currently we’re seeing a number of abuse cases that describe accounts being broken into and used to spam communities, after the owners of those accounts entered their username and password in a form that was posted in various journals. The form claims to be a way of customizing your LiveJournal account. It’s not — it’s a password collection script. Please never, ever give your password to anyone for any reason. LiveJournal will never ask you for your password via email, or for any reason other...