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- author sandra tsing loh is divorcing and wrote this article about it. interesting article, many truisms (i think, speaking as a never married) but ultimately too bleak.
- city of virginia beach FAIL: i noticed a change at the little park just across the street from where i live. about 2 weeks ago, there was lots of tree cutting and trimming activity. i am one that would normally support fairly vigorous pruning as i walk my dog alot and will have memorized which streets or trails have lots of low hanging tree branches that threaten to gouge out my eyes on my walks with the magpie. however, they did appear to be planning to deforest the landscape, which i had commented to my guy when i noticed it. in any event, sometime last week, i noticed that the benches were different. instead of just a regular, metal bench that was there – and not that old or weathered in appearance – i started noticing benches with a little armrest in the middle. like dividing a bench into two sections of two seats. so how does that relate to the compassion fail? well, those types of benches, specifically recently placed benches, are devised at least in part to render lieing on or sleeping on benches impossible. it harkens back to debates in my hometown (san francisco!!) in the 80’s (maybe they still debate it, despite SF’s reputation as completely socialist). i just saw on this mornings news that a homeless shelter has been built about 2 blocks in the other direction, so i realized there is definitely a connection there. i find it disappointing. i mean, i have noticed a particular kind of asian appearing man on a 10 speed with really old school radio headphones that did seem to be stationed on one of those benches napping alot since i’ve been here, and i have noticed the wafting scent of pot drifting from individuals sitting for a long while in that area… but i also feel for the folks who don’t have a place to go during the day – and may not feel safe at night sleeping in a new and clean shelter with strangers in a room. i’m conflicted. i don’t want to encourage loitering or unsafe areas by any means (the landscaping changes do make for more visible areas which i actually now think is an improvement and make it more likely that i might strol around the block there at dusk), but i also think switching out new and perfectly good benches for most likely lieing down inhibition is kind of paranoid.
- in regards to using FAIL above, slate posted a great article about the epic rise of fail
- i am enjoying twitter so much – i’ve so been on it for a few years - i do approve my “followers”, after the epic fail of having them as a widget on my blog last year and the ensuing nightmare – and i really do keep in touch on a daily basis with quite a few really cool people i know who live far away. wish i could get my brother and grandparents to tweet!
- i <3 my boyfriend! he is completely wonderful and awesome and smart and cute! i aim to get so we are able to spend any and every moment we want together, but for obvious reasons, i can’t really put all of that out there on the blog.
- maggie is barking at the open window. incessantly.
but i started tivo-ing jon & kate plus 8 about 3 months ago, and was interested in seeing what was going to happen next after watching their bizarrely awkward finale of their last “season” (when they still actually spoke to each other face to face), but, for the record, i loved and still like watching the kids run around and say funny kid things to each other and the camera people.
okay, he may be an underachieving, non-assertive tool (i know of an “unhappily” married person or two whom i would describe the same way?? absolutely), but honestly, i am watching this “big announcement” show and it only confirms what a self-centered, ego driven, obnoxious martyr that biotch is!!!!!! OMG!!!!
i had hoped NEVER to tweet and/or blog about the waste of airspace that their 15 minutes of fame is, but she is soooooooo RIDICULOUS on this “very special episode”. i mean, forget anything anyone else ever has ever done for the good of humankind anywhere EVER, because, by gum, that kate gosselin!! boy! how does she go on!!!!
she is obnoxious to every one else in the show in lieu of or in referring to the husband she is not speaking to and vice versa, and clearly she is the ONLY person ever to merely think of her children’s safety (on camera), she’s the only person who she says in regards to her impending divorce that she let herself have half a day to cry and sob and hyperventilate (wow. 10 years and your first love, she wants to SAY out loud that a half day and she must move on for the happiness of her family and PS she will struggle to go on and be there for her family no matter how she has to!!! ie on TV), i mean HOW DOES SHE LIVE????? probably the new playhouses, one for each kid, with thecrookedhouse.com stenciled on the front of each, with appropriate camera time might explain some of that. and kate saying80 million times how these product placement items are making memories her kids will recall sooooo many years from now (hey aiden? remember when we got those crooked playhouses the day our folks told the world they were getting divorce? yah! those were good times!)… oh, and their could probably be more “peace for the kids” although, yes, not as much money, had you perhaps even ended this debacle when hubby sat beside you on camera and and essentially said he didn’t want to do the show anymore. STOP TALKING OBNOXIOUS CONTROL FREAK LADY!!!!! andour new cleavage looks fabulous, btw. i do wonder why she didn’t televise that, or wasn’t that gratis?
again, nobody knows what all happened there, maybe jon is a freaky wife beater and unrepentant compulsive gambler… and she seems truly obnoxious in about every way, but jesus, probably you could have actually stopped this trainwreck and/or spoken the fuck up before now, but man, this dude should just lie back and let her continue to display her inappropriate self centered-ness to the world. oh, and start the kids in therapy now. i mean they are paying for it, right? literally and figuratively… anyway, he seems at list in touch with his issues unlike the hopefully-for-him-soon-to-be-ex-missus.
but seriously dude, diamond earrings? seriously? next he will be getting highlights….
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what seems best today, often…not so much in retrospect….
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actually i dig the stainless steel. but every time i see the ubiquitous finish on every single decorating show, magazine, home, store…… even while i am admiring it, i am thinking “is stainless steel the avocado green of the “oughts”?”
and then i thought about how true my title is in regards to life, right? what are all those things you thought you loved, had to have had to do, go to, see, be with etc…. and what…. all avocado green frigidaires.
so, i know there are zillions of folks that work nights regularly (the key phrase there would be REGULARLY), but i haven’t for a long long time. in fact, after i finished anesthesia school and got onto a more day time schedule (despite occasional call), i slept better and my frequent migraines all but disappeared.
i worked last night 7p-7a and will work this weekend nights as well. 3 lousy shifts. i get some unknown to me at the present amount of shift differentail and all that and we all have to do our share. but (in the words of our new president) let me be clear – I HATE WORKING NIGHTS.
i hate being up all night. i hate not being able to sleep during the day. i hate having a head ache and scratchy red eyes. i hate eating 3 times the amount i would normally eat in a 3 day period. i hate working – which i might just say here that i can function just fine – when i routinely lose the ability to articulate anything of meaning between the hours of 2am and 5am to another human being without visual aides and a round of charades. i hate wandering round the house after not being able to get comfortable and not being able to pay much attention to anything. and i hate that it will screw up my very sad sleep schedule for the next month and half.
glass half full, anyone?
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