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February 1st, 2012
09:35 am
This morning I saw a robin! I was on the treadmill at the gym and it was walking around on the lawn outside. Spring is actually coming; it's been hard to believe.
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January 23rd, 2012
12:47 pm - Amazing foodie dinner
We just got back from a trip to Hawaii with our friends S and D and two other couples and one of the things we did was a very fancy and expensive chef-cooked dinner. As a confirmed non-foodie I felt almost guilty about taking up space there, but I made up my mind to keep and open mind and try everything. It was an amazing experience and here's my report.
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October 30th, 2011
06:26 pm
Pat is asking me for Halloween costumes for work and I suggested he use these instructions to make a Ninja hood, and wear black cloths. He told me that he doesn't have any black clothes. How can this be?? Black is the new black!
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October 10th, 2011
09:49 am
On Saturday we got up at 6:00 and drove for three hours to go to the Big Sur Jade Festival. I hadn't been in a few years because the drive is such a pain, but this year I wanted to go because Peter Schilling was going to be there. I've been collecting his work for several years and it was exciting to finally meet him. I took pictures of the pieces I bought yesterday and posted them here. I'll be adding photos of other Schilling jades in my collection.
His work is really outstanding, so elegant and simple.
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September 30th, 2011
10:50 am
Am I curious enough about the San Benito County Fair, south of Hollister, to drive an hour and 15 minutes to get there? Probably not.
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September 8th, 2011
August 17th, 2011
01:48 pm
Yesterday I went to the track at the local community center to run, for the first time. I liked it - all the different types running or walking, the soft track, and the snatches of conversation as I ran past:
"...not my place to say anything, but that boy really is obese...."
"...realize I should have thinned. I saw Jack out there thinning and I though, I should do that, but I didn't. Now my wild onions are all crowded..."
"...get it on the toasted bread, the thin bread - with peppercinis...."
"...says the level of lack of education in the doctorate program is really staggering..."
I need to figure out pacing, though. On the treadmill it's easy, but elsewhere I have a hard time figuring out how fast to go. Yesterday I started off too fast and soon was breathless and coughing. I slowed down, but my asthma really kicked up till I got in the car and used my inhaler. Also I ran a bit more than two miles and the time was way off (shorter) than I would have expected. I'm going to go back today, though.
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July 17th, 2011
07:36 pm
Yesterday I had lunch in Berkeley with a friend at a restaurant on 4th Street and we sat outside next to the sidewalk. The couple next to us had with them their utterly adorable French Bulldog, Zorro, and I swear every other person stopped to exclaim over him and pet him. He ate up the attention, of course. We talked to his people and they said sometimes it's exhausting to take him for a walk because he gets so much attention.
Although I'm not a dog person it made me, once again, desperately want a French Bulldog of my own. Luckily cooler heads will prevail.
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June 22nd, 2011
10:07 am - Book review: The Boy in the Moon, Ian Brown
It's hard to review this book. It was well written, it was interesting. I suppose I'd recommend it. But I found it disturbing and depressing. It's about the author's profoundly retarded and disabled son, his rare genetic disease, and other children like him. Walker, Brown's son, was born with cardiofaciocutaneous (CFC) syndrome, an extremely rare genetic mutation that results in unusual facial appearance, the inability to speak, and a compulsion to hit himself constantly. At age thirteen, he's mentally and developmentally between one and three years old and will need constant care for the rest of his life.
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June 21st, 2011
03:59 pm - Book review: The Storm at the Door: A Novel, Stefan Merrill Block
I got a review copy from LibraryThing.
It’s a fictionalized account of how his grandfather was committed to a mental hospital by his grandmother, given shock treatment, etc. I hated it. It's written in a wordy, dramatic style, with lots of heavy foreshadowing. Yes, the events in it are tragic, but it's just boring. Skimmed and got rid of it.
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