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| Subject: | Friends Only. |
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Some of my entries are friends-only.
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Tuesday, September 1st, 2009
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Halfway through yesterday I got sick from my kids and by the time I left work I felt like I'd gotten punched in the everything. I'm not used to using sick days for actual sickness, at my old jobs it was usually because I needed to get something else done. I was so determined to not miss any work for at least the first few months of school, if not forever, and then there that went. AND Betsy went and had her wrinkly baby yesterday. But I can't go see because of the sick, see?
Mostly I'm just upset because I put all this work into planting all these gigantic sunflowers and other kinds of things in Knoxville, and when I went back this weekend they had all bloomed and looked magnificent. Which is good, right? But I couldn't take a damn picture of them because I kept on forgetting. Which is bad. I feel out of my head and have many rooms to paint. But maybe after the delirium? Okay!
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Saturday, August 8th, 2009
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I moved to Nashville the other day. I grew up here, but I've been away for eight years, so I keep having these "oh, I didn't know THAT'S where this road went" moments. I'm trying to update my brain maps from the high school ones that only covered three specific, coffee-shop heavy areas of town.
I miss my cat a lot. She will be moving here in t-minus four weeks and counting, though, and we will have a new, old house to scamper around in with our sloppy watercolors and old time radios. I don't put much stock in carpet or cockroaches, but everything else is ok by me.
I start my new job on Monday. It's inservice till Thursday, then Friday I get my fifth graders.
I didn't know how to end this, because my stepsister came in and we started talking about that time our dad bought like $200 worth of seashells from this tourist store in Destin, and now I can't think about anything else.
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I have to catch up on Livejournal someday, somewhere, somehow. Maybe! I've been doing alright, I have my teaching license now, some Moose Tracks ice cream, and you know, whatever else. I do not have the internet anymore, which isn't too bad except now I sometimes wonder about the world and do not have the information at my fingertips. Mostly it's been good, though. Lots more books and bike rides. When I do get on, I get sucked into Facebook and Flickr, so maybe I'll see you fine folks in one of those places?
One thing I seriously do want pretty bad is a set of encyclopedias. Anybody gotta set of encyclopedias that's collecting dust? I will trade you something for them.
Also, anybody living in New Orleans? I might be there later this month (21 - 23?) and I might need a place to stay.
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Monday, February 2nd, 2009
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I spent a big chunk of the snow day today writing jillions of lesson plans. The snowflakes were gigantic, they looked like little white hats falling out of the sky.
gardening.
must record snowfall.
It is funny because I spent the bulk of yesterday walking around sunny downtown, where I rolled up my sleeves and probably my sweater even got a tan. Here's where I say something about Knoxville having such CRAZY weather like a durn roller coaster, and how it's unlike anywhere else in the world. So if anyone was thinking that their town had crazy, unpredictable weather, grab a number. We can't all be unique about weather.
Omelettes, Bloody Marys, and making bread are some of my favorite things lately.
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Tuesday, January 20th, 2009
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Me and my dad, creekwalking, 1984.
Me, my Zadie, and my first camera.
I liked Dr. Lowery's part of the inauguration: “When brown can stick around, when yellow will be mellow, when the red man can get ahead man and when white would embrace what is right.”
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Monday, January 19th, 2009
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Friday, January 9th, 2009
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| Time: | 12:36 pm. |
| Mood: |  confused. |
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I just paid fifteen bones for a whole slew of numbers, pluses, minus, and two neat words: Vertical Phoria. Problem is, my left eye's all screwy. Thanks, Dr. Bizer's Vision World, for such an exotic sounding diagnosis! Now I gotta find me some new glasses.
Yesterday I went hiking and met a mama bear with her three cubs on the trail. Twice. I gasped both times. Later on I took a picture of the sky and some other junk that was less likely to kill me. Observe:
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Wednesday, January 7th, 2009
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I've been working on my old stop motion koala video, but I needed sun to do an outside part today, and it wasn't happening. BUT, I finally got a remote control for my camera today, and I wanted to use it, so I made this crummy stop motion thing instead. A couple hundred photos? I dunno, didn't count them, but all old fashioned style. The quality with youtube is shit, I don't know how to make it not blurry on there. If anyone knows, or can host huge videos, lemme know. It's a silly thing anyway.
That's all, I just needed to type something down here for symmetry's sake. Seriously though, about the low quality thing, I need help with that.
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Saturday, December 27th, 2008
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I stayed at an Econo Lodge a few days ago, and took what I unabashedly consider to be the best picture of me to date. I have cell-phone-sent it to numerous people, most of whom did not seem to care. Usually I hate photographs of me. Behold, my bed head!
If my hair ever looks this awesome again, I'm going to seriously consider marketing my drool as a styling product. Happy almost 2009, everybody!
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Sunday, December 14th, 2008
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Downtown Knoxville in December, as seen by a 27 year old girl on her bike. So far, 27 has sounded much older than it feels.
Lately I've become more interested in spiders. Does anyone know of a good spider book that's not just straight up informational, or Charlotte's Web? Some kind of in between. Does that exist?
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Friday, December 5th, 2008
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I was reading an article today that talked about this scientific study where they found out happiness really is contagious. If you know a lot of happy people, you're good. But everybody's got the damn SAD. They should wear face masks. I like to blame everything in the terrible winter months on SAD, but all this time it's just been everyone else's fault for not being happier.
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Wednesday, November 5th, 2008
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last night was the first time that someone i voted for actually ended up winning, third time being a charm and all.
thanks to the magnificent weather we've been having (70's = Perfect) i have gotten a lot better at riding my bike with no hands, but only on declines.
i brought old grapes and butter to work for lunch the other day.
welp, that's pretty much what's been happening with me.
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Monday, October 13th, 2008
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that is pretty much the way i feel right now, at the risk of sounding completely melodramatic. so, some good things? kissing my cat on the head, trees turning yellow, the privacy of bathrooms, and riding my bike. i'm going to go do that last thing now. i just feel like i'm starting to spill over everywhere and i don't really want to, but i don't know what else to do.
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Monday, September 8th, 2008
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Wednesday, July 30th, 2008
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OK NO, UNEDIT: The airport is screwing up again and saying that the computer is losing touch with it. And iTunes just re-launched itself. What?
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EDIT: Nevermind the computer thing, I unplugged my airport (makes the music come out of living room speakers wirelessly), plugged it back in, re-started, and it's fine. But does anyone else use an airport, and if so, have you had problems like the one below? I don't want it to happen again.
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I have iTunes 7.7, and all of a sudden it is skipping like crazy. Not just regular little skips, but the music will stop for at least 10 - 15 seconds each time it happens, which is probably about 5 times per song, which is probably just about the most obnoxious thing ever. Does anyone have any idea what's going on or how to fix it? I have had my Macbook for about a year and a half and have never had any other significant problems. Technology these days!
Doctor Claw killed a mouse last night. There was blood all over the floor and at first I thought she had cut herself. I realize that she was just doing her job, but it was still very sad. I had some of those humane mouse traps where they get flipped into a little waiting room and then you release them someplace else, but I haven't had mice since I lived in the fort and I gave them all away. I can't really afford to buy more right now, but I don't want the cat to keep munching mice and leaving the carnage strewn about. What's a girl to do? Anybody know of a good way to peacefully evict mice on a shoestring budget?
But especially don't forget about the iTunes question. Music, then mice. Such are my priorities.
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somebody walked into the unitarian church here this morning and shot seven people. this is so fucked up. things like this are not supposed to happen in knoxville. we are not a big city. things like this are not supposed to happen anywhere.
they don't know yet if any of the shots were fatal. i wish there were something that i could DO.
i was taking wedding pictures at that church just a few weeks ago, and i've been to some really good vegetarian potlucks there. those people are so nice, so accepting. i'm at a loss.
http://www.wbir.com/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=61322&catid=2
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Thursday, July 24th, 2008
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the other day as i was leaving my house, some can collectors saw the mess on my front porch and asked if they could have my beer cans. i got a clean porch and less recycling to deal with, they got a crap-ton of cans. symbiosis. i wish they wanted bottles, too. just clap your hands.
i took that over my shoulder while driving across the hall of fame bridge next to downtown the other evening. i like it because it is blurry and dark and light all at once. low quality speaks to me more lately, i think it matches my thoughts.
in general, i'm not too happy with the photos i've been taking. i'm bored stiff with them and they suck, if you want to know the truth.
i'm figuring out a lot right now. the more i figure out, the more i feel like crawling so far under the covers i just disappear.
the phrase "grasping at straws" has been consistently going through my head for the past month or so. i feel like i am having so many sloppy, personal collisions with people in attempts to make some kind of electrical, spill-your-guts connection and i just end up with sleepy, dull headaches. i'm not sure if i'm doing anything right anymore.
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Wednesday, July 9th, 2008
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there are fruit flies drunk on yuengling bouncing off the doors of my kitchen cabinets, probably having the best time of their little lives.
yellow wax beans, edible snapdragons, nashville to knoxville to nashville to knoxville. my life is really little, in the grand scheme of things. what about you?
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