Time feels compressed to me. Saturday felt like Sunday all day. Thankfully it wasn’t; I still have time to prepare. I’m leaving to fly east — to Syracuse, New York — the day after tomorrow. It’s not that I have immense work to do… just packing and watering the gardens really well. But I’m volunteering on Monday, and then suddenly it will be Tuesday, and I’ll have to catch a noon flight. Get this: I’ll land at midnight. Of course, there’s a three-hour time shift in there, but still, it will be a long journey. I’ll be there one week, so posting will be spotty, if at all.
However, I plan to take lots of pictures, so I’ll have some new material to share.
I spent this evening culling about three dozen books, mostly fiction, from my bookshelves. They’ve been very tight and getting more so. Since I rarely re-read fiction, I targeted those. I’ve emailed close friends and family to offer free reads. I’ll post whatever titles they don’t want so that other readers have a chance. Kat did this awhile back, and I benefited!
That cup of coffee I had at Barnes & Noble this evening after dinner probably wasn’t a wise decision. I’m wide awake now. But I didn’t buy any books (yay self- discipline!). I’ve enough in queue to last me awhile.
Below are a couple of memes I did for fun. One is the Friday Random Ten (a couple of days late, ah well) where you set your music player to “shuffle” then list the last ten songs you heard. The other is a cooking quiz that I found in my blog meanders — can’t remember where.
Master and Servant – Depeche Mode, The Singles 81-85
Crucify – Tori Amos, Little Earthquakes
Tremo E T’Amo – Andrea Bocelli, Sogno
The Secret, the Candle, and Love – Andreas Vollenweider, Down to the Moon
Book of Days – Enya, Shepherd Moons
Bitter Pill – Annie Lennox, Bare
Dreams – The Cranberries, Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can’t We?
Dissolved Girl – Massive Attack, Mezzanine
Out There – Jimmie Vaughn, Out There
Only the Good Die Young – Billy Joel, The Stranger
Which Food Network chef are you?
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ooooooo . . . you are coming to my neck of the woods . . . let me know if you’d like to meet up for lunch/talk/tea . . . you’ll be abut two hours from me . . . if you are game, perhaps we could do a halfway thing? 🙂 K
Oh man… that IS discipline. No way I can walk out of a bookstore without some sort of paper with writing on it… 🙂
K — I would love to meet you; the challenge is coordination. This visit I’m heading to my mother’s hometown for a couple of nights — Olean, which is south of Buffalo. I won’t have my own wheels, either, so any visit would require you coming all the way to Syracuse on a weekday, and that won’t work for you with school. However… if I am not pregnant fit to bust next May, I’ll be heading to Saratoga Springs for a friend’s wedding, and if you’re still in Albany, let’s meet!