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little mee

2008-07-04T04:01:01-06:00

so today i:

2008-06-05T13:56:01-06:00

cleaned: started robbie on the bedroom and changed over the linen for summer. didseveral laundry and curtain- and bedding-flumpimg loads.
organized: charged up red, who arrived today!
refurbished:
arted:
knit: worked on princess ann back some. went to the shop and did some more; and in the evening.
played piano:
read:
studied for exams:
got on track with food: started with breakfast on tracker. ate three meals, pretty well balanced! does soy count as dairy?
exercised:

day one

2008-06-05T13:29:00-06:00

first day of the summer break: two whole months with no commitments other than a luncheon today in ybor, a 3-day tech class next week, and a seated certification exam all day (2 exams,actually) on July 26! i slept in a whole hour this morning.
things to do this summer (in no particular order because probably all at once):
clean--this house, the studio, the car, everything!
oupgrrganize--ditto. throw out stuff. lotsa stuff, so i casn reveal other, long buried stuff and throw that out, too. i want the studio room bare but for the the flors, thechandelier and theshelving…
refurbish--slipcovers, stick tiles down, finish the kitchen from a decade back…
art--painting and more 3d
knit--entirely from stash, i have so many wips, i can go for a year, i think!
play piano--this idea came on me again the other day. haven’t touched it in years and there it sits.
read--i am determined to regain enough concentration to again read books. with my eyes. i can’t stand not being a voracious reader anymore, andit’sgoneon now for years!
study for exams--of course. all i have to do is pass theprofessional practices and the rt exam and i’m in. it will all bedone before we go bck, unless i blow it. i have the study guides.
get on track with food again- again again. starting recordning on the usda tracker again. found a csa providing farm right here, but it doesn’t opeate in summer, of course.still, i think there’s a farmer’s market there on sundays, at least i hope that’s still there in summer. that could get me broken in.
exercise--i’ve been paying for the place since last august when i joined and never went once all school year. things got too odd too soon. i need to go back right now and decide this summer if i plan to use it, or quit it in august when the renewal is up. i NEED to use it!

i continue in my quest to establish some sort of very simple discipline that i can just do. minimal purchasing, minimal eating, minimal upkeep, etc. so that, once again,come august and school i can just effortlessly flow. effortlessly. flow. right.

today: the luncheon for the school. I took this last morning off as a personal day, since i didn’t have anything to do there and didn’t need to drive all the way there just to drive back to tampa for the luncheon. unclear whether i will be made to eat or not, since i seem to have missed the payment deadline; perhaps i can just go and not eat? anyway, that’s at 11:30, and then we’re all done. I was thinking i could maybe catch the exercise...?

i am wondering whether bake and i are suffering from a similar malady: we have come through, all is well, we just don’t believe it yet.

floodgates

2008-06-04T23:48:00-06:00

10:25, 4 Jun 08
Keith: I was reminded, however, that I used to often buy books from Vintage Contemporaries sometimes just because of the cover art
10:28, 4 Jun 08
Bakerina: Oh, Vintage Contemporaries had great art. Terrific graphic design.
10:28, 4 Jun 08
Bakerina: And I still have a soft spot for Dell Yearling paperbacks.
10:28, 4 Jun 08
Bakerina: I often wish someone would bring the old cover art back. The new Yearlings are spiffy, but I miss the old format.
10:31, 4 Jun 08
Keith: Okay, I need to go hunt down some late breakfast.
10:33, 4 Jun 08
Bakerina: What a coincidence. I have to hunt down some late lunch.
10:33, 4 Jun 08
Bakerina: Enjoy yours, sir. Will see you ‘round the campus, I’m sure.
10:33, 4 Jun 08
Bakerina: Later, Br.
13:52, 4 Jun 08
e: ah. that’s what happened to my publishing caree, too, a couple of careers back
13:53, 4 Jun 08
e: alberto something or other, head of bantam when they were merged with us, only had eyes for tom wolfe
13:54, 4 Jun 08
e: but when i mentioned maumauing the flak catchers, he looked at me as if i had two heads. i went freelance within a year or so then, eventually, left new york…
13:55, 4 Jun 08
e: and that was the end of publishing
15:27, 4 Jun 08
Bakerina: Ahhh, I think I remember that guy, e. I keep wanting to say Alberto Manguel, but I know that can’t be right.
15:27, 4 Jun 08
Bakerina: Alberto Manguel wrote A History of Reading, and I’m positive he knows all about Maumauing the Flak Catchers.
15:27, 4 Jun 08
Bakerina: But I can’t wrap my mind around the BDD guy’s last name.
15:59, 4 Jun 08
e: alberto..alberto..do es it start with a g?
16:03, 4 Jun 08
e: no, here you go:
16:03, 4 Jun 08
e: “‘I WAS sitting around one Friday afternoon with our president, Alberto Vitale, discussing this hard-cover venture we had just embarked upon,’’ Stuart Applebaum, Bantam Books’ vice president for publicity, reminisced. ‘’It was a summer afternoon; nothing was going on. I observed that business books seemed to sell well in hard cover ...”
16:04, 4 Jun 08
Bakerina: Vitale! That’s it! Sorry, do continue.
16:04, 4 Jun 08
e: alberto vitale, illiterate marketer, THAT was the book that sold our 100 year old publishing firm…
16:21, 4 Jun 08
e: after the merger the switchboard was moved from our park ave digs (inexplicably undocumented chrysler bldg spire right outside my window) to the bantam bldg further north
16:22, 4 Jun 08
e: ony day i called it to see how it would henceforth be answered, this telephone to the new BDD
16:23, 4 Jun 08
e: and i swore she said “bubblety bubblety bell...”
16:24, 4 Jun 08
e: (ah, the stories, the stories!)
16:24, 4 Jun 08
e: there was the time i narrowly avoided informing isaac asimov that the space shuttle exploded...(i already told that one; i recently,online, ran into my fellow asst.ed. from then, his young editor then, now gaiman’s at another house...)
16:26, 4 Jun 08
e: the time i expressed concern that, as it seemed everybody was suddenly and en masse turning republican, that jackie, surely,couldn’ t be? (which somehow was received with the utmost distaste....
16:31, 4 Jun 08
e: the time my eccentric art director swept into the employees’ full dining room--not the exec one, the one like in the devil wore prada--and announced “what SHALL we do with poor booth?” (meaning tarkington, whom she apparently figured was due for a revival, no doubt with one of her all-type jacket designs…
16:40, 4 Jun 08
e: the time i filed a contract card for the latest shari lewis tome right after the one for elmer gantry (as far as i know, bubblety bubbelty bell pulped all those old contract cards, which i, and others, used reverently to peruse for their wealth of association, imagining ourselves a future link in the lineage: helen keller advanced $25 in the early part of the last century, etc....
16:45, 4 Jun 08
e: going to (and you’ll recognize this annual pilgrimage from the other side) Sales Conference at corporate headquarters, which was privately held, and, as we descended the train at the Garden City Station into what looked like Dolly Levi’s yonkers, my (jewish) boss calling out “here come the jews!” (after dinner we danced hedonistically to born in the usa, while outside the news was of chernobyl…
16:46, 4 Jun 08
e: im outdoing orionoir here, recording all this on scrinechat…

go to hell, kavam

2008-05-13T23:31:00-06:00

you won’t find anything here. you’re what stopped me posting alltogether.

why i don’t blog anymore

2008-05-05T23:34:01-06:00

I give you the last dozen hits i gots, not unlike the dozen before them (bots):
1 Unknown 2 Unknown 3 United States Tempe, Arizona 4 United States Tempe, Arizona 5 United States Tempe, Arizona 6 Unknown 7 United States Tempe, Arizona 8 United States Tempe, Arizona 9 Unknown 10 Unknown 11 United States Tempe, Arizona 12 Unknown…

2 novels and an ipod

2008-04-07T17:49:00-06:00

loading up for spring break. does the road call, or is it just trying to drown out the studio?

nine whole days!

2008-04-04T21:47:00-06:00

YAAAAAYY!!!

unchurched

2008-03-23T15:22:00-06:00

it is easter sunday and i am sad. i would have liked to go to church, but i don’t do that anymore. i would have liked to, but i feel profoundly unwelcome at my church. a fish out of water. i am not unwelcome in any way, of course, i know that. when i went back there one sunday a few months ago i was almost chased away with the welcoming, even after years, and i have not since returned. the fact remains that i feel unwelcome, anyway, and it’s me, not them. a few years ago an interim they had railed at the c&e’s and, although i was not one of them, of coursse, i was so terribly distressed that very soon i stopped going altogether. and i would be a c&e if i went today, and i very much feel like one whenever i should attempt to resume, c or e or tuesday. i feel wrong, all wrong. and then last summer, that sunday i attempted to return, i got the hours of the service wrong somehow, and arrived when it was almost over, and was all wrong, and everyone so surprised and happy to see me and i couldn’t wait to get away:all i had wanted was the service and all i got was the rubber chicken. and now here it is e and i still feel like i’ve nowhere to go. i want somewhere to go, but i don’ feel comfortable there. i don’t know what it’s about. i feel all wrong and alone, more there than just sitting here alone. it’s excruciating. not unlike the philosophy department, actually, all that psychic energy expended by me, and so futilely. i’m all wrong. perhaps i should go sit on a pillar.

is it safe yet?

2008-03-20T12:43:00-06:00