Monthly Archive: August 2005

31
Aug
2005

WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOA!

Keep your hands and feet inside the ride! First meeting of the AWC on Tuesday and it was ELECTRIC! 7-8 completely new faces, a great guest speaker, and warm welcomes and greetings all around the room. I am really glad since we lost a lot of active people over the summer. It looks like my plan for shedding some responsibility worked as well, and the editor position is going to be filled by someone else for at least a year. 🙂 First choir practice tonight and I’m flying 🙂 We have THIRTY-SIX songs to learn between now and October 13th....

29
Aug
2005

BOUNCING BACK TO BITE ME

I’m ashamed to tell you where the camera was. We looked around outside this morning and reaffimed that it was nowhere on the deck, in the yard or in the garage. Karin reiterated that she had left it out on the porch table and not taken it anywhere else. We talked at the breakfast table about the 3 friends who were here in the afternoon and whether or not any of them might have taken it to play with or moved it and Martin and Karin were asked to ask them nicely if they remembered having seen it. I worked...

28
Aug
2005

JUST DO IT, AND THEN SOME

There wasn’t going to be a lot of action today…the plan was to sleep in, vegetate, navel contemplation, reading, web surfing. Since we didn’t get to sleep until after 3 a.m., I at least managed the sleeping in part…and reading and web surfing almost always manage to get squeezed in somehow. But before brief_therapy could catch me I had already started a load of laundry and run the dishwasher for the first of 2 times. In addition, the printed version of the AWC newsletter, plus Tuesday’s meeting program and calendar handout are finished, and I had a lesson in creating...

27
Aug
2005

THINGS THAT GO A LONG WAY

Finally having a chance to get caught up on LJ/blogs/emails Getting the AWC website/newsletter finished, put together and sent for proofreading Sleeping in until 9:30 a.m. Going grocery shopping and finding a unexpected huge shelf of American products at a store I rarely patronize Finding a 4-meter trampoline on the internet for 1/2 the price and listening to the shrieks of joy coming from the backyard A blue and white cloud-streaked sky, sunshine, a breeze. Late summer greens, a veritable palette of different shades: sage, olive, beige, avocado, silvery-grey-green, purple-tipped. A vase full of white lilies, pink roses, white strawflowers,...

26
Aug
2005

GANG AFT AGLEY

We were going to go go-carting for our team-building activity this afternoon on the 2nd day of our off-site meeting, but the sun was shining, and Malmö Festival was in full swing, and we were running late, and no one really felt like go-carting, so we ended up deciding to ditch it and go shopping in the late afternoon instead,…except that I went back to the office and worked for 2 hours instead. We were going to take the kids and go down to Malmö Festival tonight to eat festival food and cotton candy and walk around and see the...

25
Aug
2005

SEND TUMS

Interesting but tiring thing about today: All day off-site global marketing meeting (another day full tomorrow) Great thing about today: Surprise fika in the afternoon was 1 quart each of 5 different Ben & Jerry’s ice cream flavors! Mmmmm! Drag thing about today: the shit weather, which my brother DELIBERATELY jinxed us with Pass-it-on nice thing about today: 3 compliments on the purple-lady-triangle brooch that galestorm made for me Sweet thing about today: making it home in time to see my kids before bedtime with their spraypainted hair and giant “just-been-to-the-circus” grins Crud thing about today: the nausea and upset...

23
Aug
2005

HABITUAL, NOT RABBITUAL

You know how life seems to speed up around the second half of the year, as if now that summer is over, it’s picking up speed down the slope, moving gleefully away from those long slow sunny days (oh ho ho ho) and into the stretch? School starts, vacation is over, activities begin again. Festivals and fairs bop and jive, the circus comes to town. In Flyinge, the organizers of the annual giant flea market/auction send out flyers soliciting gently used goods one weekend from all the households, and then cheerfully sell them back to everyone in town but the...

22
Aug
2005

WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN

I thought about writing a big ol ranty rant but, no. I thought about writing a scholarly treatise on a subject about which I know much and you know little, just to enlighten the world a little bit but, no. I thought about writing a zany, knee-slappingly funny anecdote (true story! WAHAHAHA!) but, no. I was going to give you a blow-by-blow account of how my day went from a bad start to a crazy center, gooey like a cream-filled chocolate, only not nearly as good, to movingatthespeedoflight to crisis center action to okay I can’t do anything about this...

21
Aug
2005

CAN YOU CANOE?

If you sit really still and listen, in addition to not causing the canoe to wobble violently, you’ll hear the water life under and around you. That stretching sound is your muscles, pulling and contracting in ways you’d forgotten. That slapping splash and arpeggio of water drops is the paddle dipping in, pushing and displacing, your body the motor that moves the boat forward. Fronds wave slowly and wetly beneath you, you pass so quickly over them, their elongated strands leafily undulating, wetly waving. An army of dragonflies darts madly about, a zipping sound, capering and dancing above the green...

19
Aug
2005

THE PASSION OF THE PAGE, THE HOOK OF THE BOOK

I worked 11 hours today and then I came home and baked a cake. I am officially too tired to think of anything to write. So I leave you with this, which is something someone else wrote but which I could have: “Explaining the moment of connection between a reader and a book to someone who’s never experienced it is like trying to describe sex to a virgin. A friend of mine says that when he meets a book he loves, he starts to shake involuntarily. For me, the feeling comes in a rush: I’m reading along and suddenly a...

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