Every year Bearpawly on LiveJournal asks his friends to post a picture of themselves in a Santa hat on the 15th of December. Here’s my contribution this year. Tags: daily photo, santa hat, self portrait, subway… Continue Reading
Monthly Archives: December 2009
Professional Opportunity..
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Dinner with Gregg…
It was a convoluted weekend, but almost every minute of it was spent in the company of interesting people. Yesterday afternoon, I dragged my soaked self into Veselka to have a dinner and conversation with my friend Gregg. Even though our paths have crossed many times over the past twenty years, it was the first… Continue Reading
Am I obsessed or accomplishing something?
I’ve spent about 9 hours out of the last 24 trying to sort out the mess of my contact list. Some of it goes all the way back to my Rolodex – which I haven’t used for a good ten years, but which is where many of these contacts got their start before they were… Continue Reading
After work is never after work…
Last night’s sky. Supposedly the work day is wrapping up and with it the work week, but that just isn’t the case these days: there’s always another report to be written, or meeting to be had. I don’t have a conventional job, and for that I’m glad: working in education gives me the leeway to… Continue Reading
Say your prayers, villain!
Shoulders aching. It’s been a bumbling weekend. A little sketching got done. Things interrupted other things. Saturday’s weather was simply wretched: sloppy not snow not rain, falling so slowly that it didn’t count as sleet either. But its damp and cold penetrated everywhere, especially for under-dressed me. I finished up reading The Year’s Best Science… Continue Reading
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Mystic Secrets revealed!
I learned a great truth today: Socks, when their Karma is properly aligned, can be reincarnated as Bay leaves. Nothing else would explain the facts that every time I put ten socks in the dryer, I get seven back, and for every two Bay leaves I add to my stew, I pick out five. Let… Continue Reading
The dregs…
Another rollercoaster meeting day, and now my fourth cup of coffee for the day is an iced double espresso. Am I being foolish? I did oversleep this morning, tumbling through the sixty degree warmth and the shreds of agreeable dreams. But once I got going it was meet meet meet. Problems on every side, and… Continue Reading