tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-60830890260948496032024-03-26T23:36:33.181-07:00busysmartypantsElisehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03700839759494774567noreply@blogger.comBlogger1393125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6083089026094849603.post-42469073859211112772024-03-20T11:57:00.000-07:002024-03-20T11:57:00.159-07:00book festival musings<p> </p><p align="left" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
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bars would also host a world class literary even</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">t?</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: navy;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">What</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: navy;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"> I</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: navy;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"> experienced</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: navy;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: navy;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">was</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: navy;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"> a</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: navy;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"> definitive</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: navy;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"> outbreak</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: navy;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"> of</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: navy;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"> literary</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: navy;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"> joy:</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: navy;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: navy;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">two-plus days of panels and readings, book signings and
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and a great view (if I wanted it) of three hours of NYT best sellers
talking shop.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
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</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">and</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
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</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">himself</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
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</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">back</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
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</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">female</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">character</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">noticing</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">another’s</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
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</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">bestseller</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
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</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">I</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
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</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">the</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
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</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">M.</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
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</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://bookfest.tulane.edu/schedule/contemporary-crossroads-exploring-art-culture-and-written-word-corey-j-miles-brandan-bmike" target="_blank"><span><span><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span>professor</span></span></span></span></span><span><span><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span>
</span></span></span></span></span><span><span><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span>and</span></span></span></span></span><span><span><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span>
</span></span></span></span></span><span><span><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span>ethnographer</span></span></span></span></span><span><span><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span>
</span></span></span></span></span><span><span><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span>Corey</span></span></span></span></span><span><span><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span>
</span></span></span></span></span><span><span><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span>J.</span></span></span></span></span><span><span><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span>
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</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">preceding</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
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</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">into</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">places</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
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Glaude, Jr. interviewed</span></span></span></span></span><span><span><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span>
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</span></span></span></span></span><span><span><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span>Imani</span></span></span></span></span><span><span><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span>
</span></span></span></span></span><span><span><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span>Perry</span></span></span></span></span><span><span><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span>
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</span></span></span></span></span><span><span><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span>Ward</span></span></span></span></span><span><span><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span>
</span></span></span></span></span><span><span><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span>on</span></span></span></span></span><span><span><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span>
</span></span></span></span></span><span><span><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span>writing</span></span></span></span></span><span><span><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span>
</span></span></span></span></span><span><span><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span>about</span></span></span></span></span><span><span><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span>
</span></span></span></span></span><span><span><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span>the</span></span></span></span></span><span><span><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span>
</span></span></span></span></span><span><span><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span>South</span></span></span></span></span></a><span><span><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span><a href="https://bookfest.tulane.edu/schedule/voices-south-conversation-imani-perry-clint-smith-and-jesmyn-ward-moderated-eddie-s-glaude" target="_blank">.</a></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: navy;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
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spoke</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: navy;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
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</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">the</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
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</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">South</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
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</span></span></span></span></span><span><span><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><i><span>South</span></i></span></span></span><span><span><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><i><span>
</span></i></span></span></span><span><span><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><i><span>to</span></i></span></span></span><span><span><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><i><span>
</span></i></span></span></span><span><span><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><i><span>America</span></i></span></span></span></a><u><span><span><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span>
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</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">thoughtful</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
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</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">Mason-Dixon</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">line.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: navy;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
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</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">introduced</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">Q&A</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">by</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">asking</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: navy;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
wryly</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: navy;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">,</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span><i><span style="color: navy;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="text-decoration: none;">Let</span></span></span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="text-decoration: none;">it</span></span></span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="text-decoration: none;">be</span></span></span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="text-decoration: none;">a</span></span></span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="text-decoration: none;">question,</span></span></span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></i><span style="color: navy;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><i>please</i>.</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">(Spoiler:</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
it</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: navy;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"> wasn</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: navy;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">’t.)</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: navy;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">Every</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">festival</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">is</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">what</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">you</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">make</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">of</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">it,</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">I’m</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">learning,</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">and</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">I</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: navy;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
am</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: navy;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
glad</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: navy;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">to</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">have</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">heard</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">these</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">thinkers</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">and</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"> </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">talented</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: navy;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: navy;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">writers</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">share</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">insights</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">right</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">now,</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">at</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">the</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">height</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">of</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">their</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">skills</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">and</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">power.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
Elisehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03700839759494774567noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6083089026094849603.post-70814411794826704762024-03-17T08:50:00.000-07:002024-03-17T08:51:29.890-07:00pep talk for myself<p>After weeks of nothing but rejections, I finally googled <i>writer+rejection</i> just to feel something other than frustration, anger, fear (am I done for, stale, washed up, a bloviating bore?). </p><p>*<br />A singer friend told me of a rejection they couldn't read for a year. Turns out the rejection came with an offer of mentorship but they discovered this far too late.<br />Life makes no sense sometimes, and others, all too much.<br />Anyway, here's a link to<a href="https://lithub.com/20-famous-writers-on-being-rejected/" target="_blank"> <span style="color: #2b00fe;">20 famous writers on being rejected</span></a><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><u>.</u></span><br />Onward.<br /> </p>Elisehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03700839759494774567noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6083089026094849603.post-63200650313243659442024-03-06T21:24:00.000-08:002024-03-06T21:24:00.144-08:00bayou metairie (city park new orleans)<p> </p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://nolaultimate.com/f/city-park-festival-grounds" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="bayou metairie" border="0" data-original-height="1008" data-original-width="756" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0j1Jv6Lx0jRPkgrywcY4RxPaPRukLb04nuv9ePpVyfAh-rpMH1_5bk-7RC-vgQCnLXqzwIxW3rojJSTG2r-54KUrFEjXn3And5HbVPUN_iahd3xMeDzqsSZE4UNwuF0Cqz_Cr_3qTKZJ8RwOPAH-QsOCEJrVoxAu2txaHR5p7rfA2WwqV5efkZv-MB-Zz/w300-h400/metairie%20bayou%20-%20Copy.jpg" title="bayou metairie" width="300" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><pre class="western"><a href="https://nolaultimate.com/f/city-park-festival-grounds" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">bayou metairie</span></a></pre>
</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p></p>Elisehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03700839759494774567noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6083089026094849603.post-83354148556389414592024-03-03T09:20:00.000-08:002024-03-03T09:23:51.364-08:00it got vicious fast<p class="western" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;">I attended a <a href="https://manuscriptacademy.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Manuscript Academy</span></a> workshop a few weeks ago, dedicated to working on agent queries and synopses. I watched videos and submitted homework and in one of the assignment threads, found an emerging group of memoir writers. We connected over email and agreed to schedule some Zoom get togethers.</span>
<span style="font-size: small;">We shared what we’re working</span><span style="font-size: small;"> on</span><span style="font-size: small;">, sample queries, then first ten pages.</span> </p><p class="western" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;">Two meetings later, it’s over.</span>
<span style="font-size: small;"> </span></p><p class="western" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;">Dunzo.</span>
<span style="font-size: small;"> </span></p><p class="western" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;">The quickest literary crash-and-burn I’ve ever experienced.</span> </p><p class="western" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;">I think it came down to expectations. I suggested at meeting #1 that we talk about <i>how</i></span><i><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></i><span style="font-size: small;">we were going to offer critiques, but no one seemed interested.</span>
<span style="font-size: small;">At meeting #2 several of the writers got real vicious, castigating one particular writer for their memoir topic, sniffing, “It doesn’t need to be written about.”</span>
<span style="font-size: small;">The attacked writer pushed back, followed up with a buh-bye email, and one of the attackers apologized, but the other doubled-down.</span> </p><p class="western" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;">I</span><span style="font-size: small;"> liked</span><span style="font-size: small;"> several</span><span style="font-size: small;"> of</span><span style="font-size: small;"> the</span><span style="font-size: small;"> writers</span><span style="font-size: small;"> a</span><span style="font-size: small;"> lot</span><span style="font-size: small;"> but</span><span style="font-size: small;"> i</span><span style="font-size: small;">t’s</span><span style="font-size: small;"> way</span><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-size: small;"> too many emails and far</span><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-size: small;">too much drama so I’m bowing out.</span>
<span style="font-size: small;">Great subject matter for a short story though.</span> </p><p class="western" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;">Straw into gold!</span></p>
<p></p>Elisehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03700839759494774567noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6083089026094849603.post-25179283430130301872024-02-28T21:13:00.000-08:002024-02-28T21:13:00.169-08:00when to worry<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span face="Lucida Sans Unicode, sans-serif">Anxiety is my
ride-or-die apparently and gosh I wish I could kick her out of the
car.</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face="Lucida Sans Unicode, sans-serif">It’s
been a rough few days.</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face="Lucida Sans Unicode, sans-serif">I’m
tired of feeling gross.</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face="Lucida Sans Unicode, sans-serif">Tired
of not having the kinds of friends here I can confide in. That’s on
me, a little bit. I know a lot of happy gadflies and while they’re
super fun to run around with, they’re not confidantes. </span>
</p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face="Lucida Sans Unicode, sans-serif">Work
is awful, like unwaveringly terrible and awful, I feel overlooked and
undervalued and that’s weighing on me.</span></p><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face="Lucida Sans Unicode, sans-serif">Writing</span><span face="Lucida Sans Unicode, sans-serif"> </span><span face="Lucida Sans Unicode, sans-serif">=</span><span face="Lucida Sans Unicode, sans-serif"> </span><span face="Lucida Sans Unicode, sans-serif">rejection</span><span face="Lucida Sans Unicode, sans-serif"> </span><span face="Lucida Sans Unicode, sans-serif">righ</span><span face="Lucida Sans Unicode, sans-serif">t</span><span face="Lucida Sans Unicode, sans-serif"> </span><span face="Lucida Sans Unicode, sans-serif">now,</span><span face="Lucida Sans Unicode, sans-serif"> over</span><span face="Lucida Sans Unicode, sans-serif"> and</span><span face="Lucida Sans Unicode, sans-serif"> over,</span><span face="Lucida Sans Unicode, sans-serif"> </span><span face="Lucida Sans Unicode, sans-serif">from</span><span face="Lucida Sans Unicode, sans-serif"> </span><span face="Lucida Sans Unicode, sans-serif">journals</span><span face="Lucida Sans Unicode, sans-serif"> </span><span face="Lucida Sans Unicode, sans-serif">and</span><span face="Lucida Sans Unicode, sans-serif"> </span><span face="Lucida Sans Unicode, sans-serif">writer</span><span face="Lucida Sans Unicode, sans-serif"> </span><span face="Lucida Sans Unicode, sans-serif">friends.</span><span face="Lucida Sans Unicode, sans-serif"> </span><span face="Lucida Sans Unicode, sans-serif">Just,</span><span face="Lucida Sans Unicode, sans-serif"> </span><span face="Lucida Sans Unicode, sans-serif">everywhere.</span><span face="Lucida Sans Unicode, sans-serif"> </span><span face="Lucida Sans Unicode, sans-serif"> </span></p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face="Lucida Sans Unicode, sans-serif">Do
I stay or go? On so many fronts, existentially and temporally and
now.</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face="Lucida Sans Unicode, sans-serif">I
just don’t know.</span><span face="Lucida Sans Unicode, sans-serif"> </span></p>
<p></p>Elisehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03700839759494774567noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6083089026094849603.post-50186708520872719102024-02-25T09:12:00.000-08:002024-02-25T09:12:36.808-08:00why does Google think I'm Dutch?<p> </p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmR9A8rGvmh1Lz_goHHGLmHOQtZ8P3OIvuSgTfmaMmED_hFz_YOpQqgKoRLB6Fyhmi4qU-Ujm4Vtlt6VSBIl6b8kc1XVQ_wGCaBmw51Ufwmo52a56Zrq5WYWw2OzsrJH2Y8eQ7WltxCnoem4wnhR2rgmAMS3lATnB65llQpwY2Y6Goafv19WZFx0XOWZmT/s1538/google_HUH.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="screen shot of google in dutch" border="0" data-original-height="689" data-original-width="1538" height="179" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmR9A8rGvmh1Lz_goHHGLmHOQtZ8P3OIvuSgTfmaMmED_hFz_YOpQqgKoRLB6Fyhmi4qU-Ujm4Vtlt6VSBIl6b8kc1XVQ_wGCaBmw51Ufwmo52a56Zrq5WYWw2OzsrJH2Y8eQ7WltxCnoem4wnhR2rgmAMS3lATnB65llQpwY2Y6Goafv19WZFx0XOWZmT/w400-h179/google_HUH.JPG" title="screen shot of google in dutch" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><p class="western" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">must</span></span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">
be the VPN</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p></p>Elisehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03700839759494774567noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6083089026094849603.post-24175438410648627022024-02-20T09:25:00.000-08:002024-02-20T09:25:00.147-08:00despite not being a poet<p><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Despite<span style="color: black;">
not being a poet, </span>I<span style="color: black;"> attended a hybrid
poetry workshop the other day. It was <a href="https://nikkiummel.com/" target="_blank">led by a local poet</a> I admire
and held at a <a href="https://www.baldwinandcobooks.com/" target="_blank">wonderful Black-owned bookstore</a>.</span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: black;">As
the crowd of attendees swelled, folks packing onto velvet settees and
chatting cheerfully, my anxiety increased. </span></span></span>
</p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: black;"><i>Do
I make excuses and flee?</i></span><span style="color: black;"> (the poet
already saw me and said hi)</span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: black;"><i>Take
another CBD mint?</i></span><span style="color: black;"> (hemingway ftw, I
can’t medicate and write)</span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: black;"><i>Or
tough it out?</i></span><span style="color: black;"> (I stayed)</span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: black;">*</span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: black;">My
goal was to force my mind into other fresher lanes. I’ve been
hauling ass down the freeways of short fiction and longer-form CNF
for awhile now. </span></span></span>
</p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: black;">The
poet shared some beautiful writing, including <a href="https://thatsweetcuyahogaglow.wordpress.com/2014/08/25/bad-feminist-how-to-be-friends-with-another-woman/" target="_blank">a piece by Roxane Gay</a>.
I began to understand, dimly, dumbly, how the structure made the
piece more powerful.</span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: black;">Then
we did writing exercises, and I stared at my computer and mostly
failed. It felt stressful and panicky. I don’t know if going was a
good idea, or a successful one but I also don’t think that matters.</span></span></span></p>
Elisehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03700839759494774567noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6083089026094849603.post-14315769167873945422024-02-15T09:36:00.000-08:002024-02-15T09:36:00.138-08:00What I'm reading (winter 2024)<p><span style="font-size: medium;">It's been a mad dash of memoir reading these past months, including a few by celebrities:<br /><br /><b>Kerry's:</b> the magnificent "Scandal" star's memoir <a href="https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/thicker-than-water-kerry-washington/1142989767" target="_blank"><i>Thicker Than Water</i></a> reads like a politician's, to me. Elegant, contained, not too revealing. Much like her, think. <br /><b>Britney's:</b> <i><a href="https://www.britneybook.com/" target="_blank">The Woman in Me</a></i> reminded me why she's a megastar: it's deeply personal, fun, sad, insightful, and full of longing. I'm embarrassed at how terribly we have treated this genuine artist. <br /><b>Jada's:</b> I was interested to learn more about Jada Pinkett Smith, apart from the snark and the mean headlines. In <a href="https://www.harpercollins.com/products/worthy-jada-pinkett-smith" target="_blank"><i>Worthy</i></a>, she writes vividly about her tough Baltimore upbringing, shares rich details about her longtime friendship with Tupac, and generally paints a picture of intellect and accomplishment. It lost me with the woo woo stuff toward the end, though.<br /><br />In a more literary vein, I just reread Ayaan Hirsi Ali's <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/81227.Infidel" target="_blank"><i>Infidel</i></a>. Her story of her determination to live the kind of life she wanted, despite many years of hardships in Somalia and Kenya and Holland, two forced marriages, the loss of a sister and the strictures of men-led religion. Unfortunately now she's leaned into belief in a christian god, but her story is still compelling.<br /><br />And I was reluctant to read Jennette McCurdy's <i><a href="https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Im-Glad-My-Mom-Died/Jennette-McCurdy/9781982185824" target="_blank">I'm Glad My Mom Died</a></i>, mostly due to the title. A thoughtful barista in Memphis urged me to read it nonetheless and I'm glad they did.<br />What a story, of celebrity, anxiety, abuse, lies and love.<br />It ended abruptly and in a way I get why, it's almost too much pain to bear ultimately, but I'll just say I'm amazed at McCurdy's bravery and wish her well.</span></p>Elisehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03700839759494774567noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6083089026094849603.post-33072729029346519422024-02-11T09:04:00.000-08:002024-02-11T09:04:42.330-08:00bear with (plz)<p align="left" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Lots
going on in busysmartypants land. </span></span></span></span>
</p>
<p align="left" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">No
more or less probably than for anyone else but between work, writing,
reading, and enjoying my first carnival season I’m feeling quite
underwater.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">I’ll
keep doing what I’m doing and in the meantime enjoy this Zen
moment.</span></span></span></span></p>
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Elisehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03700839759494774567noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6083089026094849603.post-36491970688389133202024-02-08T07:40:00.000-08:002024-02-08T07:40:00.135-08:00I'm (not) happy for you<p> </p><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiu6y9uSpKMjzPpt0wuGLfCMpbVCF8xf0bJKemnJxzlY-rbVwBrmSsEtTWzWyXAE0OjPsqEArI4d_p_qjOWl0oUskecoFofEEKWWoqW-x6ae4h7H_cutiUHVus-4esbJQy7oeo0crUXceR2z7W21JWK0JD4GhNPVYZ662h38xFAf0f0lElZcWLtSwVFB5H0/s1008/imnothappyforyou%20-%20Copy.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img alt="I’m (not) happy for you" border="0" data-original-height="756" data-original-width="1008" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiu6y9uSpKMjzPpt0wuGLfCMpbVCF8xf0bJKemnJxzlY-rbVwBrmSsEtTWzWyXAE0OjPsqEArI4d_p_qjOWl0oUskecoFofEEKWWoqW-x6ae4h7H_cutiUHVus-4esbJQy7oeo0crUXceR2z7W21JWK0JD4GhNPVYZ662h38xFAf0f0lElZcWLtSwVFB5H0/w400-h300/imnothappyforyou%20-%20Copy.jpg" title="I’m (not) happy for you" width="400" /></a></div><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><br /><p></p>Elisehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03700839759494774567noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6083089026094849603.post-70562352221614942492024-02-04T12:38:00.000-08:002024-02-04T12:38:00.141-08:00c’mon man<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="color: navy;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span><br />
</p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">It’s
wild how much forgiveness is extended to </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">certain</span></span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
segments of society.</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">As
a not-young white woman I know I’m the beneficiary of such largesse<span style="color: navy;"><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
too</span></span></span></span><span lang="en-US">.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Last
week I asked a</span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">man
in his 70’s t</span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">o
please not touch me. </span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">We</span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
were </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">working</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
a parade event and h</span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">e’d
grabbed my elbow,</span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">asking</span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
me to make change for him.</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I</span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">t
was the eighth or tenth time </span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">in</span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
the four times</span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
I’d </span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">been</span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
around him</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
that he’d </span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">grabbed</span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
me. Many of the other volunteers avoid him, switch</span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">ing</span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
shifts </span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">or</span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
coordinating offline</span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">,
because he </span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">always</span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">stands
too close, talks too much about himself, </span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">and</span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
touches touches touches.</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">His
face fell as he registered my </span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">request.</span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
L</span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">iterally
crumpled. Then he bristled. </span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>I
just need change,</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
he snapped.</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Eventually
he went to the bar and got a drink and sat down next to another
volunteer, muttering that he hadn’t meant anything.</span></span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>I</i><span style="color: navy;"><span style="color: black;"><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></i></span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span style="color: black;"><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">know</span></i></span></span><i>
you didn’t,</i> I said evenly. <i>I just asked you not to touch me.
You can talk to me without grabbing me.</i></span></span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Later,
he apologized stiffly, not meeting my eye, </span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">repeating</span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
that</span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
he hadn’t meant anything, and then left. The other volunteer </span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">said</span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">,
</span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>Don’t
you think you were being too hard on him? He really felt bad. He was
almost crying. And he apologized.</i></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Now
I bristled. It felt like I was the one in the wrong. </span></span></span>
</p>
<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Maybe
it’s a generational thing;</span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">t</span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">hey’re
both in their seventies,</span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">but
what kept coming back to me is his insistence that he didn’t mean
anything by touching me. </span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Which
is devastating. </span></span></span></span></span>
</p>
<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Because
that’s it.</span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">T</span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">hat’s
the issue. </span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The</span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
unwanted touch</span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
that makes </span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">me</span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
recoil</span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
and causes all of us </span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">to</span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">trade
knowing looks </span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">and</span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
whispers, </span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">is
</span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">meaningless</span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
to him.</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">*</span></span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Also
last week, </span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I</span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
was in a meeting where </span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">a
male co-worker was abrupt and dismissive </span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">to</span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
a woman co-worker. </span></span></span></span></span>
</p>
<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">((PAUSE</span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
to digest shock and reaction.))</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: navy;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">(((OK
just kidding. We all know this happens on the regular.)))</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: navy;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">*</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">E</span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">very
time </span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">the</span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">woman</span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
offered her expert recommendation, </span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">male</span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">co-worker</span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
responded with a curt, one-sentence answer. </span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Later</span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
I messaged a</span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">nother</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">(male)</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">colleague
and Colleague responded: </span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>oh
he (Co-worker) is a great guy, our kids grew up together. Maybe he</i></span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></i></span></span></span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">just</span></i></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>
a bad day.</i></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Thus</span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
dismissed, </span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I
mentioned my discomfort to the project leader</span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">but</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
s</span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">he
too demurred. </span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>Co-worker
has a great reputation, </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">she
said. </span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>And
</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>he</i></span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></i></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>keeps
offering to help with our project. </i></span></span></span></span></span>
</p>
<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: navy;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">*</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Flash-forward
to this week and Colleague asked to chat with me. </span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">T</span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">he
expert woman </span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">had</span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">told</span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">him</span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">privately</span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">how
dismissed she’d felt</span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">in
</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">the</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
meeting, i</span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">gnored,</span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">d</span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">isrespected.
Colleague was calling to apologize and figure out how he could listen
better.</span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">I
completely missed it</span></i></span></span></span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">,
he said humbly.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">So,
validation, I guess. </span></span></span>
</p>
<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">To
trust my instincts. </span></span></span>
</p>
<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">And</span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
a reminder</span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
to be a better ally and amplify women's voices.</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">*</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Also,</span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
c’mon man! Guys, do better, so we don’t have to.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p></p>Elisehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03700839759494774567noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6083089026094849603.post-89993688172544653992024-01-31T07:38:00.000-08:002024-01-31T07:38:00.132-08:00pick up aqui<p> </p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhairQYLxLAsTdnlj9y9zFLWWKSIFPUrqkCIbmZOQFyuhqPBJzI4INupUi10xL2YWjj98nFfVfsPjkyviWdP3G_-c_giQgmS0xpbSCWGg0nL0Wk-JjW-obZVnRM_e2drNVbdPHiE7nwzSS8PMGE8yQwE8INQ_gqkxPhR0vgD_O-bSrAY-zD4vXkcx_K5uYs/s1008/pick%20up%20aqui%20-%20Copy.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="pick up aqui sign" border="0" data-original-height="1008" data-original-width="756" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhairQYLxLAsTdnlj9y9zFLWWKSIFPUrqkCIbmZOQFyuhqPBJzI4INupUi10xL2YWjj98nFfVfsPjkyviWdP3G_-c_giQgmS0xpbSCWGg0nL0Wk-JjW-obZVnRM_e2drNVbdPHiE7nwzSS8PMGE8yQwE8INQ_gqkxPhR0vgD_O-bSrAY-zD4vXkcx_K5uYs/w300-h400/pick%20up%20aqui%20-%20Copy.jpg" title="pick up aqui" width="300" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.leoncoffeehouse.com/" target="_blank">Leon</a><p class="western" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<a href="https://www.leoncoffeehouse.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;"> </span></a>
</p><a href="https://www.leoncoffeehouse.com/" target="_blank">Coffee</a><p class="western" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<a href="https://www.leoncoffeehouse.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;"> </span></a>
</p><a href="https://www.leoncoffeehouse.com/" target="_blank">House</a></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p></p>Elisehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03700839759494774567noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6083089026094849603.post-22922104756400986282024-01-28T18:59:00.000-08:002024-01-28T18:59:00.131-08:00bonkers creative <span face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="color: black;">This was a
two-parade weekend and as my pal and I watched paraders and </span><span style="color: black;">brass</span><span style="color: black;">
</span><span style="color: black;">bands</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">and</span><span style="color: black;">
floats go by, they remarked that it was all happening too fast, we
needed more time to </span><span style="color: black;">really</span><span style="color: black;">
</span><span style="color: black;">see</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">and</span><span style="color: black;">
</span><span style="color: black;">take</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">in</span><span style="color: black;">
the floats, the puns, the glorious explosion of creativity and
hilarity and </span><span style="color: black;">fun</span><span style="color: black;">.</span></span>
<p align="left" class="western" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="color: black;">Yes.</span></span></p>
<p align="left" class="western" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="color: black;">Yes yes yes.</span></span></p>
<p align="left" class="western" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="color: black;">I participated
in a 3-day writing workshop last week exploring queries and
submissions with agents and about 300 other participants. It felt
overwhelming most days, because my actual paid j.o.b. went from great
to demanding and frustrating and unrewarding, and I want to dwell in
creative world and then putting myself in editing world felt icky and
frustrating. But I hung in there, watched the videos, submitted my
homework, and met some possible new collaborators.</span></span></p>
<p align="left" class="western" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="color: black;">It’s
important to remind myself that creativity isn’t comfortable
sometimes (MOST times!) and a lesson from the weekend is that I love
simply beautiful moments, like the float with a dancer behind sheer
mesh, clad in green glitter and moving so beautifully to trance-like cello</span></span><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="color: black;">
music</span></span><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="color: black;">. It was a moment that passed too quickly but maybe the quickness
and the fleetingness was what made it so supremely wonderful.</span></span>
<iframe width="480" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/R2VUXcC-Il8?si=53rVCVI5ZyntmKrg&start=2199" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe>
</p><p align="left" class="western" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="color: black;"> </span></span></p>
<p align="left" class="western" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="color: black;">Beauty simply
for the sake of beauty is Yes.</span></span></p>
Elisehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03700839759494774567noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6083089026094849603.post-81405895576152875062024-01-24T09:50:00.000-08:002024-01-24T09:50:00.138-08:00if only it were possible<p> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZOTK5_9u8uOQDBnaG2nZ4gwokwtXH056YXiKphYBOFNOXLQHMutXyP8XeIG0IMU2d1VoUPvrYH2-U4lRTSEZisoK_GoemmXO83i2IwvO6ANxcOJuPWwq8mURxx738knNgBadHNpsuA5dWNHTV_NcJIHEBAsZosglyhWSgnQHeRUPeV7r-RW9H_TtA1KCR/s1008/recycle_billion.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="recycle billionairs" border="0" data-original-height="1008" data-original-width="756" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZOTK5_9u8uOQDBnaG2nZ4gwokwtXH056YXiKphYBOFNOXLQHMutXyP8XeIG0IMU2d1VoUPvrYH2-U4lRTSEZisoK_GoemmXO83i2IwvO6ANxcOJuPWwq8mURxx738knNgBadHNpsuA5dWNHTV_NcJIHEBAsZosglyhWSgnQHeRUPeV7r-RW9H_TtA1KCR/w300-h400/recycle_billion.jpg" title="recycle billionairs" width="300" /></a><br /></p>Elisehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03700839759494774567noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6083089026094849603.post-18226581528220654922024-01-21T09:47:00.000-08:002024-01-21T09:54:27.024-08:00the shrink who called me<p><span style="color: black;"><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;">A
former shrink called me this week. Now that’s a feeling, the phone
ringing, a former shrink’s name onscreen, a person I parted ways
with years ago pretty abruptly. I was curious, but wary, so I let it
go to voicemail.</span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: black;">All
therapists in my experience make it difficult to end the
relationship. I dislike ghosting and won’t lie, but what options do
I have when it just isn’t working anymore and they refuse to hear
it? One shrink I really liked (not this one) just could not keep
appointments. He completely forgot our second or third session and I
forgave him after he apologized but the next week I again sat in his
waiting room well past my appointment time, wondering where he was.
He hurried through the waiting room, saw me, yelled he was coming
right back, he just had to get to the medical marijuana place two
floors down. I said nothing, just packed up my stuff and took the
stairs down to the street and ignored his phone calls pleading with
me to come back. We’d been discussing boundaries and I guess I
learned that lesson.</span></span></span></p><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: black;">* <br /></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: black;">Anyway.
The calling shrink. </span><span style="color: black;"><i>I’m retiring</i></span><span style="color: black;">,
she said, and thought a nice way to close her practice would be to
call her clients. </span><span style="color: black;"><i>You and I, we had a
few conversations</i></span><span style="color: black;">, she added, to
encapsulate</span></span></span><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: black;"> </span></span></span><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: black;">a relationship that had lasted for several years. </span></span></span>
</p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: black;">She
helped me with a few things but I ended it after I realized she was
never going to try to learn more about a </span><span style="color: black;">neurological
</span><span style="color: black;">condition that has caused me huge
amounts of pain and grief and shame. When I mentioned the shame, in
particular, </span><span style="color: black;">and how I struggled with it,
</span><span style="color: black;">she </span><span style="color: black;">said</span><span style="color: black;">
</span><span style="color: black;">well </span><span style="color: black;">she
didn’t want me to feel shame. <i>Neither do I</i>, I </span><span style="color: black;">replied</span><span style="color: black;">
tartly, but that </span><span style="color: black;">wasn’t </span><span style="color: black;">really
the point. The point was, in my mind, I DID feel shame. <i>But I don’t
want you to feel shame</i>, she said again. </span><span style="color: black;">We
went around and around. </span><span style="color: black;">I left her
office weeping with frustration.</span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: black;">I
called her a few days later and left a voicemail cancelling</span><span style="color: black;"> my upcoming sessions, </span><span style="color: black;">and
</span><span style="color: black;">telling her I </span><span style="color: black;">needed
to take a break</span><span style="color: black;">. She called me</span></span></span><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: black;"> to</span></span></span><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: black;"> ask</span></span></span><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: black;"> me</span></span></span><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: black;"> to</span></span></span><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: black;"> come</span></span></span><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: black;"> back</span></span></span><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: black;"> a</span></span></span><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: black;"> few</span></span></span><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: black;"> more</span></span></span><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: black;"> times</span></span></span><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: black;">, but</span></span></span><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: black;"> </span></span></span><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: black;">I didn’t pick</span></span></span><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: black;"> up</span></span></span><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: black;">,</span></span></span><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: black;"> but</span></span></span><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: black;"> wrote her a card reiterating that I was done.</span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: black;">And I</span></span></span><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: black;"> was</span></span></span><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: black;">, until the other day.</span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: black;">Her
call brought back all those feelings of</span></span></span><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: black;"> frustration</span></span></span><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: black;"> and</span></span></span><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: black;"> anger</span></span></span><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: black;">.
At first I was inclined to call her back,</span></span></span><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: black;"> to</span></span></span><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: black;"> be</span></span></span><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: black;"> honest</span></span></span><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: black;"> about</span></span></span><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: black;"> how</span></span></span><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: black;"> it</span></span></span><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: black;"> ended,</span></span></span><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: black;"> but now I wonder what good
it would do. Is</span></span></span><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: black;"> she</span></span></span><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: black;"> looking</span></span></span><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: black;"> for</span></span></span><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: black;"> absolution?</span></span></span><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: black;"> Closure?</span></span></span><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: black;"> Well,</span></span></span><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: black;"> join</span></span></span><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: black;"> the</span></span></span><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: black;"> club.</span></span></span><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: black;"> I</span></span></span><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: black;"> feel</span></span></span><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: black;"> m</span></span></span><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: black;">y choice</span></span></span><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: black;"> is</span></span></span><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: black;"> binary,</span></span></span><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: black;"> either</span></span></span><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: black;"> to lie, thank her for her service and
blithely wish her well, or be a meanie and tell her I’m still
battling the thing she wouldn’t help me with.</span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: black;">Neither
feels good. So I’m just going to leave it. The way, maybe, she
left me.</span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
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rejoice! </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br /></p>
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<span style="color: navy;"><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-variant: normal;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: transparent;">I
gifted myself a day off to spend as</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-variant: normal;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: transparent;"> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-variant: normal;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: transparent;">I pleased, which included:</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="left" class="western" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: navy;"><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-variant: normal;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: transparent;"></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2KL6ge25TIBAzweK4fVM5HJjcHH14FXAKYDRYel0Dcho9XrAQUUHfw3EDEQLUgqnBm0A8erHBIJ-iJEfaaaPFbWsWl_PiQE9wm6Vu7GMzc1aTH00O1ITqfqBJVof6zw-hVPHFs_DeA0Yp0kXffG9ufymao1zOcM9tgifPDIq55zW_-fZm5uIEUEcGgiWD/s1008/saturn2024%20-%20Copy.jpg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Saturn 2024 it's chaos be kind" border="0" data-original-height="1008" data-original-width="756" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2KL6ge25TIBAzweK4fVM5HJjcHH14FXAKYDRYel0Dcho9XrAQUUHfw3EDEQLUgqnBm0A8erHBIJ-iJEfaaaPFbWsWl_PiQE9wm6Vu7GMzc1aTH00O1ITqfqBJVof6zw-hVPHFs_DeA0Yp0kXffG9ufymao1zOcM9tgifPDIq55zW_-fZm5uIEUEcGgiWD/w150-h200/saturn2024%20-%20Copy.jpg" title="Saturn 2024 it's chaos be kind" width="150" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Saturn 2024 it's chaos be kind</td></tr></tbody></table><span style="color: navy;"><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-variant: normal;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: transparent;">--A
jazz performance featuring the charismatic <a href="https://www.facebook.com/merv.campbell.39" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Merv Campbell</a> (briefly and
oddly interrupted with a guest appearance by Mr. Peanut)</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><p></p>
<p align="left" class="western" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: navy;"><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-variant: normal;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: transparent;">--Spending
the morning with the wonderful women of <a href="https://neworleans.dressforsuccess.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Dress for Success</a></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="left" class="western" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: navy;"><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-variant: normal;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: transparent;">--Coffee
and an egg-and-pimiento-cheese biscuit from <a href="https://frenchtruckcoffee.com/" target="_blank">French Truck Coffee</a></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="left" class="western" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: navy;"><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-variant: normal;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: transparent;">--<a href="https://www.facebook.com/p/Adrians-Bakery-100063570131857/" target="_blank">Kingcake! from Adrian’s</a>, courtesy of the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/ShopTHNOC/" target="_blank">The</a></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/ShopTHNOC/" target="_blank"><span style="color: navy;"><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-variant: normal;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: transparent;"> Shop</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-variant: normal;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: transparent;"> at</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-variant: normal;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: transparent;"> the</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-variant: normal;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: transparent;"> Collectio</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: navy;"><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-variant: normal;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: transparent;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/ShopTHNOC/" target="_blank">n</a> on Royal</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="left" class="western" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: navy;"><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-variant: normal;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: transparent;">--A
stop at the museum to see <a href="https://www.facebook.com/naydja.cojoe" target="_blank">Naydja CoJoe and her amazing band TheLagniappes </a></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>
</p>
<p align="left" class="western" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: navy;"><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-variant: normal;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: transparent;">--Dinner
and tequila with my partner</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="left" class="western" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: navy;"><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-variant: normal;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: transparent;">--</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-variant: normal;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: transparent;">A
family Zoom complete with weird cat video and birthday quiz, </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-variant: normal;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: transparent;">and</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-variant: normal;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: transparent;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-variant: normal;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: transparent;">the</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-variant: normal;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: transparent;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-variant: normal;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: transparent;">gift</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-variant: normal;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: transparent;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-variant: normal;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: transparent;">of</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-variant: normal;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: transparent;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-variant: normal;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: transparent;">bubbly</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-variant: normal;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: transparent;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-variant: normal;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: transparent;">from</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-variant: normal;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: transparent;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-variant: normal;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: transparent;">beautiful</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-variant: normal;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: transparent;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-variant: normal;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: transparent;">friends</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="left" class="western" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: navy;"><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-variant: normal;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: transparent;">--A
king cake cookie from <a href="https://www.nolacookieco.com/" target="_blank">NOLA Cookie</a></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="left" class="western" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: navy;"><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-variant: normal;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: transparent;">--AND
then joyful,</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-variant: normal;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: transparent;"> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-variant: normal;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: transparent;">mind-bending jazz at</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-variant: normal;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: transparent;"> <a href="https://www.facebook.com/thesaturnbar/" target="_blank">Saturn</a></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/thesaturnbar/" target="_blank"><span style="color: navy;"><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-variant: normal;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: transparent;"> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: navy;"><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-variant: normal;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: transparent;">from <a href="https://www.instagram.com/zscmusic/" target="_blank">the ZSC Collective</a></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p align="left" class="western" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: navy;"><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-variant: normal;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: transparent;">* <br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="left" class="western" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: navy;"><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-variant: normal;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: transparent;">I
went to bed tired and happy, grateful for family and friends and
music and cake.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
Elisehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03700839759494774567noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6083089026094849603.post-48373186045426904032024-01-09T10:09:00.000-08:002024-01-09T10:09:00.247-08:00a very bsp holiday recap<p><span face="Trebuchet MS, sans-serif">BSP<span style="color: black;">
thoroughly enjoyed the December holidays and despite Amtrak’s
horrific performance (“we don’t consider a 2.5 hour delay to be
severe” lol) I managed to get to mostly everything planned (no Ben
and Esther’s Reuben, RIP) and then some.</span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
</p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face="Trebuchet MS, sans-serif"><span style="color: black;">BSP+partner
caught an early Xmas</span></span><span face="Trebuchet MS, sans-serif"><span style="color: black;"> Eve</span></span><span face="Trebuchet MS, sans-serif"><span style="color: black;"> </span></span><span face="Trebuchet MS, sans-serif"><span style="color: black;">flight, landed early, grabbed coffee, dropped bags at
a hotel and hopped on light rail to meet friends for brunch at<u>
<a href="https://www.geraldinescounter.com/" target="_blank">Geraldine</a>’</u>s. We met another pal for the wondrous <a href="https://dinamartina.com/" target="_blank">Dina Martina’sfinal Christmas show</a>, then headed to <a href="https://theoctopusbar.com/venue/the-octopus-bar/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Octopus </a>for a fun,</span></span><span face="Trebuchet MS, sans-serif"><span style="color: black;"> chaotic</span></span><span face="Trebuchet MS, sans-serif"><span style="color: black;">
friendy-friend gathering over cocktails and tater tots.</span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
</p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face="Trebuchet MS, sans-serif"><span style="color: black;">Xmas
Day we drove a couple hours south to hang with a sister, niece and
b-in-law, pet an anxious puppy and enjoy delicious brunch strata.
Then back to Seattle to board Amtrak for a very late arrival across
the border in Vancouver. Sister + b-in-law met us with snacks,
drinks, and a ride to our Chinatown airbnb.</span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
</p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face="Trebuchet MS, sans-serif"><span style="color: black;">Banks,
stores and venues were closed for Boxing Day so we went for an early
walk, hit a grocery store for instant coffee (the airbnb provided a
scant teaspoon for our 3 night stay), then hung out with the fam,
looking through an old recipe box and enjoying amazing </span><span style="color: black;">cookies
and treats</span><span style="color: black;">. </span><span style="color: black;">For
dinner we had Chinese food -- spicy green beans, fluffy tofu -- and
croissant bread pudding, a family favorite and gut-buster.</span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
</p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face="Trebuchet MS, sans-serif"><span style="color: black;">The
next morning we took another early walk, to the bank, Tim Horton’s
for coffee, and Salvation Army for deals. Errands complete, we hung
out with the fam again, enjoying BC coffee and tea and a movie; then
a family dinner, all the Mediterranean mezze we could eat at
<a href="https://www.ilovechickpea.ca/" target="_blank">Chickpea</a><u>,</u> one of my favorite vegetarian restaurants anywhere. Then
drinks with my niece and her partner, and a pleasant walk along Main
Street home.</span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
</p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face="Trebuchet MS, sans-serif"><span style="color: black;">I
worked some our last day in Vancouver, worried about an impending
re-org. My sis made an amazing vegetarian pie for lunch, we watched a
movie and then hustled to catch Amtrak back to the US. It was an
arduous trip, with 2+ hour delays, not enough seats, and a dining car
that ran out of food. Disappointing but not surprising. We grabbed
light rail VERY late in Seattle, checked into a hotel, then fled to
<a href="https://www.thebluemoonseattle.com/" target="_blank">Blue Moon</a><u> </u>for restorative drinks.</span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
</p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face="Trebuchet MS, sans-serif"><span style="color: black;">Friday</span><span style="color: black;">
-- </span><span style="color: black;">too</span><span style="color: black;">
</span><span style="color: black;">early</span><span style="color: black;"> -- </span><span style="color: black;">I</span><span style="color: black;">
light-railed</span></span><span face="Trebuchet MS, sans-serif"><span style="color: black;">
</span><span style="color: black;">to</span></span><span face="Trebuchet MS, sans-serif"><span style="color: black;">
</span><span style="color: black;">Othello,</span></span><span face="Trebuchet MS, sans-serif"><span style="color: black;">
</span></span><span face="Trebuchet MS, sans-serif"><span style="color: black;">grabbed</span></span><span face="Trebuchet MS, sans-serif"><span style="color: black;"> ube</span></span><span face="Trebuchet MS, sans-serif"><span style="color: black;">
</span><span style="color: black;">mochi</span></span><span face="Trebuchet MS, sans-serif"><span style="color: black;">
</span><span style="color: black;">at</span></span><span face="Trebuchet MS, sans-serif"><span style="color: black;"> </span><u><span style="color: black;">L</span><a href="https://www.yelp.com/biz/les-deli-and-bakery-seattle-2" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">e's</span></a></u></span><a href="https://www.yelp.com/biz/les-deli-and-bakery-seattle-2" target="_blank"><span face="Trebuchet MS, sans-serif"><span style="color: black;"> </span></span></a><u><span face="Trebuchet MS, sans-serif"><a href="https://www.yelp.com/biz/les-deli-and-bakery-seattle-2" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">Bakery</span></a></span></u><span face="Trebuchet MS, sans-serif"><span style="color: black;">,</span></span><span face="Trebuchet MS, sans-serif"><span style="color: black;">
</span><span style="color: black;">then</span></span><span face="Trebuchet MS, sans-serif"><span style="color: black;">
</span></span><span face="Trebuchet MS, sans-serif"><span style="color: black;">met</span></span><span face="Trebuchet MS, sans-serif"><span style="color: black;">
</span><span style="color: black;">a</span></span><span face="Trebuchet MS, sans-serif"><span style="color: black;">
</span><span style="color: black;">good</span></span><span face="Trebuchet MS, sans-serif"><span style="color: black;">
</span><span style="color: black;">pal</span></span><span face="Trebuchet MS, sans-serif"><span style="color: black;">
</span></span><span face="Trebuchet MS, sans-serif"><span style="color: black;">who</span><span style="color: black;">
</span><span style="color: black;">agreed</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">to</span><span style="color: black;">
</span><span style="color: black;">drive</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">me</span><span style="color: black;">
</span><span style="color: black;">out</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">to</span><span style="color: black;">
</span><span style="color: black;">my</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">cabin</span><span style="color: black;">
</span><span style="color: black;">to</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">check</span><span style="color: black;">
</span><span style="color: black;">on</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">things.</span><span style="color: black;">
</span><span style="color: black;">We</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">had</span><span style="color: black;">
</span><span style="color: black;">a</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">relaxed</span><span style="color: black;">
</span><span style="color: black;">day</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">of</span><span style="color: black;">
</span><span style="color: black;">coffee,</span><span style="color: black;">
</span><span style="color: black;">catching</span><span style="color: black;">
</span><span style="color: black;">up,</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">some</span><span style="color: black;">
</span><span style="color: black;">outdoor</span><span style="color: black;">
</span><span style="color: black;">time</span><span style="color: black;">
</span><span style="color: black;">cleaning</span><span style="color: black;">
</span><span style="color: black;">gutters,</span><span style="color: black;">
</span><span style="color: black;">then</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">veggie</span><span style="color: black;">
</span><span style="color: black;">burgers</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">and</span><span style="color: black;">
</span><span style="color: black;">cider</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">by</span><span style="color: black;">
</span><span style="color: black;">the</span><span style="color: black;">
</span><span style="color: black;">waterfront.</span><span style="color: black;">
</span><span style="color: black;">I</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">got</span><span style="color: black;">
</span><span style="color: black;">back</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">to</span><span style="color: black;">
</span><span style="color: black;">Seattle</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">in</span><span style="color: black;">
</span><span style="color: black;">time</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">to</span><span style="color: black;">
</span><span style="color: black;">change</span><span style="color: black;">
</span><span style="color: black;">shoes</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">and</span><span style="color: black;">
</span><span style="color: black;">meet</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">a</span><span style="color: black;">
</span><span style="color: black;">friend</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">for</span><span style="color: black;">
</span><span style="color: black;">some</span><span style="color: black;">
</span><span style="color: black;">Goodwill</span><span style="color: black;">
</span><span style="color: black;">runs</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">and</span><span style="color: black;">
</span><span style="color: black;">a</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">late</span><span style="color: black;">
</span><span style="color: black;">dinner</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">at</span><span style="color: black;">
</span><a href="https://www.uptown-china.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">Uptown</span><span style="color: black;">
</span></a><u><span style="color: black;"><a href="https://www.uptown-china.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">China</a>.</span></u></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
</p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face="Trebuchet MS, sans-serif"><span style="color: black;">My</span><span style="color: black;">
</span><span style="color: black;">partner</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">was</span><span style="color: black;">
</span><span style="color: black;">headed</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">back</span><span style="color: black;">
</span><span style="color: black;">the</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">next</span><span style="color: black;">
</span><span style="color: black;">day</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">so</span><span style="color: black;">
</span><span style="color: black;">we</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">took</span><span style="color: black;">
</span><span style="color: black;">it</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">somewhat</span><span style="color: black;">
</span><span style="color: black;">easy,</span><span style="color: black;">
</span><span style="color: black;">getting</span><span style="color: black;">
</span><span style="color: black;">coffee</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">at</span><span style="color: black;">
</span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/ETGcoffee/" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">ETG</span><span style="color: black;"> </span></a><span style="color: black;">and</span><span style="color: black;">
</span><span style="color: black;">chatting</span><span style="color: black;">
</span><span style="color: black;">with</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">the</span><span style="color: black;">
</span><span style="color: black;">owner,</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">who</span><span style="color: black;">
</span><span style="color: black;">gave</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">us</span><span style="color: black;">
</span><span style="color: black;">a</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">ride</span><span style="color: black;">
</span><span style="color: black;">up</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">to</span><span style="color: black;">
</span><span style="color: black;">the</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">Hill.</span><span style="color: black;">
</span><span style="color: black;">I’d</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">hoped</span><span style="color: black;">
</span><span style="color: black;">to</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">get</span><span style="color: black;">
</span><span style="color: black;">one</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">last</span><span style="color: black;">
</span><span style="color: black;">Reuben</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">from</span><span style="color: black;">
</span><span style="color: black;">Ben</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">and</span><span style="color: black;">
</span><span style="color: black;">Esther’s</span><span style="color: black;">
</span><span style="color: black;">but</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">alas,</span><span style="color: black;">
</span><span style="color: black;">they</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">were</span><span style="color: black;">
</span><span style="color: black;">closed,</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">so</span><span style="color: black;">
</span><span style="color: black;">we</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">said</span><span style="color: black;">
</span><span style="color: black;">goodbye</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">and</span><span style="color: black;">
</span><span style="color: black;">walked</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">up</span><span style="color: black;">
</span><span style="color: black;">to</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><a href="https://doughjoydonuts.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">Dough</span><span style="color: black;">
</span><span style="color: black;">Joy</span></a><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">for</span><span style="color: black;">
</span><span style="color: black;">vegan</span><span style="color: black;">
</span><span style="color: black;">donuts.</span><span style="color: black;">
</span><span style="color: black;">Then</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">an</span><span style="color: black;">
</span><span style="color: black;">easy</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">walk</span><span style="color: black;">
</span><span style="color: black;">back</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">to</span><span style="color: black;">
</span><span style="color: black;">the</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">hotel</span><span style="color: black;">
</span><span style="color: black;">in</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">the</span><span style="color: black;">
</span><span style="color: black;">mist,</span><span style="color: black;">
</span><span style="color: black;">dinner</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">at</span><u><span style="color: black;">
</span></u><a href="https://littlethaiseattle.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">Little</span><span style="color: black;">
</span></a><span style="color: black;"><a href="https://littlethaiseattle.com/" target="_blank">Thai</a></span><u><span style="color: black;">,</span></u><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">a</span><span style="color: black;">
</span><span style="color: black;">brief</span><span style="color: black;">
</span><span style="color: black;">friend</span><span style="color: black;">
</span><span style="color: black;">hangout,</span><span style="color: black;">
</span><span style="color: black;">and</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">light</span><span style="color: black;">
</span><span style="color: black;">rail</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">to</span><span style="color: black;">
</span><span style="color: black;">the</span><span style="color: black;">
</span><span style="color: black;">airport.</span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
</p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face="Trebuchet MS, sans-serif"><span style="color: black;">New</span><span style="color: black;">
</span><span style="color: black;">Year’s</span><span style="color: black;">
</span><span style="color: black;">Eve!</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">I</span><span style="color: black;">
</span><span style="color: black;">worked</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">a</span><span style="color: black;">
</span><span style="color: black;">little,</span><span style="color: black;">
</span><span style="color: black;">watched</span><span style="color: black;">
</span><span style="color: black;">dumb</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">TV</span><span style="color: black;">
</span><span style="color: black;">and</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">then</span><span style="color: black;">
</span><a href="https://busysmartypants.blogspot.com/2024/01/hny.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">met</span><span style="color: black;"> my</span></a></span><a href="https://busysmartypants.blogspot.com/2024/01/hny.html" target="_blank"><span face="Trebuchet MS, sans-serif"><span style="color: black;"></span><span style="color: black;"> Friday</span></span></a><span face="Trebuchet MS, sans-serif"><a href="https://busysmartypants.blogspot.com/2024/01/hny.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">
</span></a><span style="color: black;"><a href="https://busysmartypants.blogspot.com/2024/01/hny.html" target="_blank">friend</a></span></span><a href="https://busysmartypants.blogspot.com/2024/01/hny.html" target="_blank"><span face="Trebuchet MS, sans-serif"><span style="color: black;"> for</span></span><span face="Trebuchet MS, sans-serif"><span style="color: black;"> an</span></span><span face="Trebuchet MS, sans-serif"><span style="color: black;"> epic</span></span><span face="Trebuchet MS, sans-serif"><span style="color: black;"> night</span></span></a><span face="Trebuchet MS, sans-serif"><span style="color: black;">.</span><span style="color: black;"> </span></span>
</p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
</p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face="Trebuchet MS, sans-serif"><span style="color: black;">W</span><span style="color: black;">elcome</span><span style="color: black;">
</span><span style="color: black;">2024</span><span style="color: black;">
</span><span style="color: black;">(written</span><span style="color: black;">
</span><span style="color: black;">with</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">utmost</span><span style="color: black;">
</span><span style="color: black;">caution).</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">I</span><span style="color: black;">
</span><span style="color: black;">met</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">a</span><span style="color: black;">
</span><span style="color: black;">friend</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">for</span><span style="color: black;">
</span><span style="color: black;">coffee</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">on</span><span style="color: black;">
</span><span style="color: black;">the</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">hill,</span><span style="color: black;">
</span><span style="color: black;">heard</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">about</span><span style="color: black;">
</span><span style="color: black;">her</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">plans</span><span style="color: black;">
</span><span style="color: black;">for</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">grad</span><span style="color: black;">
</span><span style="color: black;">school</span><span style="color: black;">
</span><span style="color: black;">overseas,</span><span style="color: black;">
</span><span style="color: black;">then</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">met</span><span style="color: black;">
</span><span style="color: black;">sister+niece+b-in-law</span><span style="color: black;">
</span><span style="color: black;">for</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><a href="https://www.oasisteazone.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">bubble</span><span style="color: black;">
</span><span style="color: black;">tea</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">in</span><span style="color: black;">
</span><span style="color: black;">the</span><span style="color: black;"> </span></a><span style="color: black;"><a href="https://www.oasisteazone.com/" target="_blank">ID</a>.</span><span style="color: black;">
</span><span style="color: black;">I</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">made</span><span style="color: black;">
</span><span style="color: black;">my</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">way</span><span style="color: black;">
</span><span style="color: black;">via</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">bus</span><span style="color: black;">
</span><span style="color: black;">back</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">to</span><span style="color: black;">
</span><span style="color: black;">my</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">hotel,</span><span style="color: black;">
</span><span style="color: black;">light</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">rail</span><span style="color: black;">
</span><span style="color: black;">packed</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">with</span><span style="color: black;">
</span><span style="color: black;">Kraken</span><span style="color: black;">
</span><span style="color: black;">fans,</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">then</span><span style="color: black;">
</span><span style="color: black;">had</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">a</span><span style="color: black;">
</span><span style="color: black;">quiet</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">night</span><span style="color: black;">
</span><span style="color: black;">preparing</span><span style="color: black;">
</span><span style="color: black;">for</span><span style="color: black;">
</span><span style="color: black;">in-office</span><span style="color: black;">
</span><span style="color: black;">work.</span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
</p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face="Trebuchet MS, sans-serif"><span style="color: black;">Tuesday</span><span style="color: black;">
</span><span style="color: black;">after</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">work</span><span style="color: black;">
</span><span style="color: black;">I</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">met</span><span style="color: black;">
</span><span style="color: black;">friends</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">at</span><a href="https://www.thecollegeinnpub.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">
</span><span style="color: black;">College</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">Inn</span><span style="color: black;">
</span></a><u><span style="color: black;"><a href="https://www.thecollegeinnpub.com/" target="_blank">Pub</a>,</span></u><span style="color: black;">
</span><span style="color: black;">grateful</span><span style="color: black;">
</span><span style="color: black;">it’s</span><span style="color: black;">
</span><span style="color: black;">still</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">there</span><span style="color: black;">
</span><span style="color: black;">even</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">though</span><span style="color: black;">
</span><span style="color: black;">the</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">nachos</span><span style="color: black;">
</span><span style="color: black;">weren’t</span><span style="color: black;">
</span><span style="color: black;">good.</span><span style="color: black;">
</span><span style="color: black;">Wednesday</span><span style="color: black;">
</span><span style="color: black;">was</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">another</span><span style="color: black;">
</span><span style="color: black;">Blue</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">Moon</span><span style="color: black;">
</span><span style="color: black;">hangout</span><span style="color: black;">
</span><span style="color: black;">with</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">a</span><span style="color: black;">
</span><span style="color: black;">pal,</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">and</span><span style="color: black;">
</span><span style="color: black;">Thursday</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">I</span><span style="color: black;">
</span><span style="color: black;">packed</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">up</span><span style="color: black;">,
</span><span style="color: black;">endured</span><span style="color: black;">
</span><span style="color: black;">some</span><span style="color: black;">
</span><span style="color: black;">painful</span><span style="color: black;">
</span><span style="color: black;">work</span><span style="color: black;">
</span><span style="color: black;">meetings,</span><span style="color: black;">
</span><span style="color: black;">then</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">hopped</span><span style="color: black;">
</span><span style="color: black;">light</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">rail</span><span style="color: black;">
</span><span style="color: black;">to</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">meet</span><span style="color: black;">
</span><span style="color: black;">a</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">friend</span><span style="color: black;">
</span><span style="color: black;">for</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">one</span><span style="color: black;">
</span><span style="color: black;">more</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">Thai</span><span style="color: black;">
</span><span style="color: black;">dinner</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">at</span><span style="color: black;">
</span><a href="https://www.mangoseattle.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">Mango</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">Thai</span></a><span style="color: black;">
</span><span style="color: black;">before</span><span style="color: black;">
</span><span style="color: black;">heading</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">to</span><span style="color: black;">
</span><span style="color: black;">the</span><span style="color: black;">
</span><span style="color: black;">airport.</span><span style="color: black;">
</span><span style="color: black;">Just</span><span style="color: black;">
</span><span style="color: black;">grateful</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">I</span><span style="color: black;">
</span><span style="color: black;">got</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">home</span><span style="color: black;">
</span><span style="color: black;">before</span><span style="color: black;">
</span><a href="https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/08/us/alaska-airlines-plug-door-found-investigation-monday/index.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">Alaska</span><span style="color: black;">
</span><span style="color: black;">Airlines</span><span style="color: black;">
</span><span style="color: black;">literally</span><span style="color: black;">
</span></a><u><span style="color: black;"><a href="https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/08/us/alaska-airlines-plug-door-found-investigation-monday/index.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">imploded</a>.</span></u></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
</p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face="Trebuchet MS, sans-serif"><span style="color: black;">My</span><span style="color: black;">
</span><span style="color: black;">heart</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">is</span><span style="color: black;">
</span><span style="color: black;">full,</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">my</span><span style="color: black;">
</span><span style="color: black;">wallet</span><span style="color: black;">
</span><span style="color: black;">light.</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">So</span><span style="color: black;">
</span><span style="color: black;">much</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">love</span><span style="color: black;">
</span><span style="color: black;">and</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">family</span><span style="color: black;">
</span><span style="color: black;">and</span><span style="color: black;">
</span><span style="color: black;">friends.</span><span style="color: black;">
</span><span style="color: black;">I’m</span><span style="color: black;">
</span><span style="color: black;">grateful.</span></span></p>
Elisehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03700839759494774567noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6083089026094849603.post-2662383546679162262024-01-05T09:44:00.000-08:002024-01-05T09:44:40.764-08:00HNY<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIILNFON8T268D3Ovp6lumt_4QT4qM6FqpWc6sWjXMzfEFWDle-Q6CBE6DqyAsRy4wwogwkGHTDQjNqt4ZLiyxLuFDEok5ki6Rd89dPxoLZEFp7opjwSGoA4CTyQwaIqHZ3h2X0SsccEV-Hlxp6EY0ne38gE0zc0eB3nuQwmFCfnXMBEAqJFZ85T5OY2xM/s1008/HNY.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="happy new year lights" border="0" data-original-height="1008" data-original-width="756" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIILNFON8T268D3Ovp6lumt_4QT4qM6FqpWc6sWjXMzfEFWDle-Q6CBE6DqyAsRy4wwogwkGHTDQjNqt4ZLiyxLuFDEok5ki6Rd89dPxoLZEFp7opjwSGoA4CTyQwaIqHZ3h2X0SsccEV-Hlxp6EY0ne38gE0zc0eB3nuQwmFCfnXMBEAqJFZ85T5OY2xM/w240-h320/HNY.jpg" title="happy new year lights" width="240" /></a></div><p><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">HNY from
busysmartypants.</span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">I
enjoyed some new experiences this NYE. Less planned, and without my
partner. I went out with pal who also was also flying solo and we
enjoyed tequila drinks at <a href="https://www.instagram.com/hazlewoodbar/?hl=en" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Hazlewood</a>, then sneaked into a nearby punk
show to ring in 2024.</span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">Except...the
band stopped playing at 11.50pm.</span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">We
drifted out to the listless streets and did our own countdown with
some reluctant sidewalk smokers.</span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">Our
efforts to find restorative pizza also failed, so we hopped in the
car, got stuck in post-fireworks-and-Heart-concert traffic jams,
abandoned the car, and eventually found quesadillas and a reggaeton
dance party at a Belltown taco truck.</span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">Welcome,
2024.</span></span></p>
Elisehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03700839759494774567noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6083089026094849603.post-71223602929433689862023-12-21T09:21:00.000-08:002023-12-21T09:21:00.137-08:00today's secret word<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;">In<span style="color: black;">
case you need a dose of holiday weirdness, Pee-Wee’s iconic
Christmas special is available on YouTube. Mekka lekka ho-ho-ho.</span></span></span></p><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: black;"> <br /></span></span></span></p>
<div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/NRvtOGLzpvE?si=9KQiZYJ6EASbcwRq" title="YouTube video player" width="480"></iframe></div>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: black;">And
remember:</span></span></span></p><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: black;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: black;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZeATcompErsGSNr4vRv-gQ4eDTb7tI8llb6up_ALx-3qtqD35xq28zyOVab91hn08Pde1aGMwtU2D5p1veyiOg_Z9IlJmhsyxNHk92fkPYH5U-OfuyiTMXsUb8fukcVL__5WEmC02HdOj2BvsS2GT1wOjHfd3l4oAGiwp0ZJmwFv02jjHd26LRSQTNA3p/s700/Screenshot%202023-12-16%20at%2010-24-01%20Memewhore.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="image: anything is a pinata if you hit it hard enough" border="0" data-original-height="700" data-original-width="511" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZeATcompErsGSNr4vRv-gQ4eDTb7tI8llb6up_ALx-3qtqD35xq28zyOVab91hn08Pde1aGMwtU2D5p1veyiOg_Z9IlJmhsyxNHk92fkPYH5U-OfuyiTMXsUb8fukcVL__5WEmC02HdOj2BvsS2GT1wOjHfd3l4oAGiwp0ZJmwFv02jjHd26LRSQTNA3p/w293-h400/Screenshot%202023-12-16%20at%2010-24-01%20Memewhore.png" title="image: anything is a pinata if you hit it hard enough" width="293" /></a></span></span></span></div><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: black;"><br /> </span></span></span><p></p>
<p></p>Elisehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03700839759494774567noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6083089026094849603.post-32362999494159068802023-12-17T08:18:00.000-08:002023-12-17T08:20:48.302-08:00 scam SCAM scam<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Gosh I thought I had a pretty good scam detector. I'm a lifelong cynic and so private I've been nicknamed The Vault.<br />And then I got this text from a strange number the other day.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEir8LDcim2Sq4BdyU9aK3r6GEAgZoc6l3Hq3JlKks7CQGs2WRy3NHYUW6IK9w-0Sc9LC3_7tGXW1KWhc48XNSVF2J0rFtDZ-xPtFpL5DHMtH2Sqh-CKVafT61nFOsfAc-ZKftfxB6WaR-uUBWjvwXGLpug5T1WHOyT2LPBzuJUm796WUdbk5zLo0BWu_PoF/s1200/SCAM1%20-%20Copy.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="stranger danger text" border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="568" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEir8LDcim2Sq4BdyU9aK3r6GEAgZoc6l3Hq3JlKks7CQGs2WRy3NHYUW6IK9w-0Sc9LC3_7tGXW1KWhc48XNSVF2J0rFtDZ-xPtFpL5DHMtH2Sqh-CKVafT61nFOsfAc-ZKftfxB6WaR-uUBWjvwXGLpug5T1WHOyT2LPBzuJUm796WUdbk5zLo0BWu_PoF/w189-h400/SCAM1%20-%20Copy.jpg" title="stranger danger text" width="189" /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /><br />Kind of a red flag, right? But I read it and thought about the guy who wrong-texted a woman a few years back and <a href="https://abc7chicago.com/thanksgiving-grandma-text-message-accident/13957705/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span style="color: #3d85c6;">now they all have Thanksgiving dinner together every year</span></a>. So I texted back. It only took one more reply to realize it was a scam.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFKdjW3eTQciCyjZ4Drx5bEw7GNoyX1C3Gd7mjzGxCI-MoxE77SNSxwhEuYR60PnXK75uLpRI8f2n-eQTndXW6RIPtPgOvaAq00I71xPXyJyRQlPou-av7kufaun6wCZJQoWbbAC6xDrtOxYC9q94Ih_ngG8gw0mmX_44TeAO9uWH1RFPXFbsxa7zWqdgC/s1200/SCAM%20-%20Copy.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="stranger danger text" border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="568" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFKdjW3eTQciCyjZ4Drx5bEw7GNoyX1C3Gd7mjzGxCI-MoxE77SNSxwhEuYR60PnXK75uLpRI8f2n-eQTndXW6RIPtPgOvaAq00I71xPXyJyRQlPou-av7kufaun6wCZJQoWbbAC6xDrtOxYC9q94Ih_ngG8gw0mmX_44TeAO9uWH1RFPXFbsxa7zWqdgC/w189-h400/SCAM%20-%20Copy.jpg" title="stranger danger text" width="189" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Blocked.<br />No new internet friends for me, I guess.</span></div><br />Elisehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03700839759494774567noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6083089026094849603.post-15678656493723078452023-12-10T08:27:00.000-08:002023-12-10T08:28:37.925-08:00sometimes I just want to<p>Time to laugh. Peace and love.
</p><blockquote cite="https://www.tiktok.com/@bobthedragqueen/video/7294617635315076398" class="tiktok-embed" data-video-id="7294617635315076398" style="max-width: 605px; min-width: 325px;"> <section> <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@bobthedragqueen?refer=embed" target="_blank" title="@bobthedragqueen">@bobthedragqueen</a> <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/tag/stitch?refer=embed" target="_blank" title="stitch">#stitch</a> with @Tony Finley <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/music/original-sound-7294617657423301419?refer=embed" target="_blank" title="♬ original sound - Bob The Drag Queen">♬ original sound - Bob The Drag Queen</a> </section> </blockquote> <script async="" src="https://www.tiktok.com/embed.js"></script>
<blockquote cite="https://www.tiktok.com/@boyjr.69/video/7299586757736058155" class="tiktok-embed" data-video-id="7299586757736058155" style="max-width: 605px; min-width: 325px;"> <section> <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@boyjr.69?refer=embed" target="_blank" title="@boyjr.69">@boyjr.69</a> Replying to @Lime what else isn’t in the bible?! This song is not in the bible but it will be on streaming 11.17 📕 <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/tag/notinthebible?refer=embed" target="_blank" title="notinthebible">#notinthebible</a> <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/tag/oatmilkisnotinthebible?refer=embed" target="_blank" title="oatmilkisnotinthebible">#oatmilkisnotinthebible</a> <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/tag/oatmilk?refer=embed" target="_blank" title="oatmilk">#oatmilk</a> <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/tag/nickadamsalphamale?refer=embed" target="_blank" title="nickadamsalphamale">#nickadamsalphamale</a> <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/tag/greenscreensticker?refer=embed" target="_blank" title="greenscreensticker">#greenscreensticker</a> <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/tag/clonesquad?refer=embed" target="_blank" title="clonesquad">#clonesquad</a> <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/music/Not-In-The-Bible-OUT-1110-7297714364327512874?refer=embed" target="_blank" title="♬ Not In The Bible OUT 11.10 - Boy Jr.">♬ Not In The Bible OUT 11.10 - Boy Jr.</a> </section> </blockquote><p> <script async="" src="https://www.tiktok.com/embed.js"></script>
<a href="https://moss-on-a-rock.tumblr.com/post/735262885140381696/that-catholic-shinobi-jaehaerys1"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">https://moss-on-a-rock.tumblr.com/post/735262885140381696/that-catholic-shinobi-jaehaerys1</span></b></a></p><p>[Video: a construction worker shoveling dirt as children on the other side of the fence yell “YAY!” every time dirt is moved.]
</p>Elisehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03700839759494774567noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6083089026094849603.post-23515728621905444732023-12-02T10:22:00.000-08:002023-12-02T10:22:51.896-08:00big kid friendship<p>Ahoy and hello.<br />The colonialist holiday got the best of me last week so I laid low and worked on some writing projects.<br /><a href="https://getpocket.com/explore/item/so-how-do-adults-make-new-friends?utm_source=pocket-newtab-en-us" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><b>Check out this article about making friends as an adult</b></a>.<br />As a work-from-home newcomer in a place grounded in centuries-old traditions and generational relationships, it's been hard to develop new friendships.<br />One of the first things I did here (as per the article) was reach out to acquaintances.<br />Lol.<br />One ignored me, one strung me along, then ghosted. The third met for coffee once and then disappeared, only to pop up here and there to ask how my holidays were (<i>rude, I'm alone, duh</i>) or when I'm moving back to the PNW (<i>ok bye</i>).<br />So, I pivoted to new friendships. Those have been tough, too but I've been patient and finally met some transplants and a local writer or two.<br />Had to weed out the religious because they just want to convert me but otherwise I'm keeping expectations low and flexibility high.<br />It feels unnatural to this Capricorn! But I don't know what else to do.</p>Elisehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03700839759494774567noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6083089026094849603.post-80900477532028347302023-11-19T06:00:00.000-08:002023-11-19T06:56:50.740-08:00public-private (emphasis on private)<p align="left" class="western" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
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<span style="color: navy;"><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-variant: normal;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: transparent;">And</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-variant: normal;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: transparent;">
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</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-variant: normal;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: transparent;">decency</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-variant: normal;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: transparent;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-variant: normal;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: transparent;">and</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-variant: normal;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: transparent;">
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