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30 July 2010 with no comments
At 4:30 this morning I woke unexpectedly, thinking I’d heard a crash. I was in the midst of some terribly complex and intriguing dream which involved some sort of epic scavenger hunt, undertaken by aliens and hobbits and lightning bug/human hybrids and geeks. I think the crash was actually within my dream, not from the depths of my apartment. (At least, so I hoped.)
“This would make a fantastic movie,” I thought, “if only I were more well versed in science fiction, I could get it right!” Apparently in my sleep I am familiar with the sorts of otherworldly beings that populate science fiction novels and movies. My waking self? Not so much. Our heroes were a hopeless bunch of geeks, with determination on their side. Totally a cliche.
I should write this down, I knew. I could turn on the light, and jot it all down in my journal. But, no. I could pick up the phone beside my head, type it all furiously out. But then that would cancel my amazing sleep cycle app, currently on night #99, charting my every fitful sleeping spell, every out-like-a-log night.
Instead I laid there, attempting to commit every detail to memory before wafting off into sleep again. I failed. All I’m left with is the bizarre imagery of a faintly Tinkerbell-looking creature, floating between pine trees. I really should try and dream more often.
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6 June 2010 with 1 comment
2010’s been a year of habits. I’ve been breaking them, making them, and plotting out more to tackle. It’s both exhilarating and scary – as much as I crave change, I’m a fairly cautious person.
In January, when everyone was making their resolutions and then forgetting about them a few days later, I jotted down a list of Things To Do. I knew I wasn’t going to accomplish them all this year, or even be able to start some of them. It was just thrilling to take all those half-thought plans that had been milling around my head for months and just let them spill onto paper, unguarded and hopeful.
Now I think I’d like to make a Life List, which I think is a more daunting version of my New Year’s Day wee-hours furious scribbling. Yet, I think I’d like the challenge.
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6 June 2010 with no comments
Apparently I..switched to Wordpress. It’s been awhile since I poked around a new blogging platform. Let’s see how this goes.
I will say that installing Wordpress was ridiculously easy, compared to the hours and days of head-scratching that Movable Type inspired.
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20 March 2010 with 1 comment
When spring starts, and it’s suddenly in the 30s and snowy after nice weather, well, then it’s time to clean out the ol’ inbox. I have a habit of emailing myself things that I need to remember, or to check on later. Only sometimes I can’t remember what it was I needed to remember. I’m awful at deleting/archiving said emails, because I’m certain that one day I will remember the hidden meaning, so they languish in the depths of my inbox.
6/1/07: Sometimes I miss the old school Internet days, when it was perfectly acceptable to use blinking text.
6/6/07: The email was only this link to the Mason-Dixon knitting blog. That was the day I decided to knit that blanket for Yvette and Wade’s wedding.
1/23/08: Wisconsinmade cheese curds
6/23/08: check things online, sigg??, pic to shame Andy
5/19/09: this link to an AV Club Madison article about the website Beards from Below. (I like beards, but I forgot to go to this site before.)
6/21/09: W. Just the letter W.
11/19/09: test test 12:02pm
12/29/09: A link to this Madison Magazine article with a list of 62 things every Madisonian should do in 2010. I thought it might be a really interesting list of things I hadn’t heard of, yet rolled my eyes when I saw that the Frosiball was #1. I’ve done 15 of the first 45, and on the “official” Madisonian checklist for items #46-62, I’ve done all but two, so eh.
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1 January 2010 with no comments
Well, damn. Yesterday was the final day of 2009, and I finished up my Project 365. Although I was most uninspired at times – seriously, when it gets dark at four and you leave work at six, how inspired can you be? – but I actually finished my lone goal of 2009, as put into words here.
I just haven’t, you know, edited photos from the last ten days. Also, I haven’t gotten around to updating my flickr pro, so you can’t see them all. BUT THEY’RE THERE. I TOOK (at least!) ONE PHOTO A DAY FOR A YEAR. The satisfaction from completing such a task is immense. Even if I did just take photo after photo of snow for a spell.
(Now I kind of want to giddily leave my camera at home for a week straight. That thing is heavy to lug around. Which was a wholly unanticipated side effect.)
Actually finishing a stated New Year’s goal has my mind all abuzz, so I’m sure over the course of the day I will come up with about thirty ideas for 2010. So far, I’ve only come up with ones with less of a day-to-day commitment.
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13 December 2009 with no comments
Not a Christmas list. Instead, I’m making a slew of half-finished lists of plans, dreams, goals for the next year. I just need to get them all down on paper, instead of bouncing around my skull. But I have ideas, things that I most certainly want to accomplish.
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13 November 2009 with no comments
The weather turned crisp, the heat kicked in, and I made borscht for the first time of the season. (It was delicious.)
A ridiculously ostentatious rainbow hung around outside my window at work, and I lusted after an assortment of yarn.
There were more football games, including one chilly game back in our old seats in the upper deck. Bittersweet, but a delicious bloody mary afterwards was most helpful.
A trip to Olbrich to catch some autumn foliage was thwarted by the fact that, well, none of the leaves had quite turned yet. The visit was saved by the glorious late-afternoon light….
…and a sudden fixation on pathways.
A trip the following weekend was more helpful in terms of autumn color, but less so in perfect lighting. Alas.
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5 November 2009 with no comments
I finally finished knitting myself a pair of socks, and they fit perfectly. Later that week I wore them in public.
The days started getting noticeably shorter. Coincidentally, football season began and I had to get used to sitting on the “wrong” side of the field.
I plucked cupfuls of basil from my garden, and finally made pesto. Shortly after completing the task I kicked myself for not doing so earlier.
Forward Music Fest flew by far too quickly. I saw some amazing bands – ones I’d heard of, ones I hadn’t; ones I’ve seen before and ones I’ve been waiting eons to see.
And I went to Chicago again, almost a month after the previous visit. This time for a multi-day conference wherein I got to stay in a fancypants hotel on the river.
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3 November 2009 with no comments
My first name is very common, and my full name is somewhat common. Years ago I was picking through stacks of family photo albums and my partially filled in baby book, and came across my parents’ list of potential names for me. It was a bizarre moment to realize that I could have been saddled with a completely different name, and I wish I still had that list.
I am kind of excited for the day when I meet someone with my name – it’s bound to happen sometime. Every now and then I search my name, out of curiosity. Are the other “me”s doing anything interesting? Have I popped up on more hits, or have I slipped down? Any new historical information about people with my name from the 1800s?
And then tonight, I decide to search myself on pipl where you can search by username in addition to full name. I assume that I make up a majority of the hits but, holy crap, there’s still a lot of others sprinkled in. Perhaps I’ll find some long-forgotten account on an equally long-forgotten website.
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2 November 2009 with no comments
So what have I been doing in the last three months? Well…
I went to see the Roadside Graves & the Rural Alberta Advantage. The concert was outside at the Memorial Union which meant that it was free, and I could watch from behind the stage. I was captivated by the stage lights hitting the grass; it looked like stained glass.
Later on, I went to Chicago, where I waited for over an hour for a pair of amazing hot dogs at Hot Doug’s…
…saw Nine Inch Nails at the Aragon ballroom….
…and had drinks at Hopleaf. Only one drink & a taste of Sarasola for me.
I also tried out the new (and only) cupcake shop in town. One to go, off to visit my grandmother who wiggled her bright red toenails at me from her bed in hospice.
And then later that week my grandmother died. At her funeral, I had her favorite drink in her honor. Shown with my fingernails painted red.
