Red Cedar
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in the home stretch
i am feeling wretchedly ill from the painkillers these past couple of days…. unable to do much except lie about and read and do the occasional stitching between naps… here is the latest installment on the rug… i’m in the home stretch now.
random notes for the day
the T3s and the pain have caused some disjoint in my logic processes and i seem unable to post a coherent entry – so instead here are some notes from my day….
it seems an odd thing to do – to add a memorial blog to your “people” list – but today i did just that for bob everton’s memorial website. as people are continuing to add to it, and i was informed today of a get together on monday to discuss potential memorial projects to remember and commemorate the life of our friend – it seems that his memory will persist in our work, and thus he hasn’t ceased in all ways, just some that are important to our mind’s understanding of “person”.
there is snow predicted for thursday night, friday and saturday – and very cold temperatures on the horizon (that is – cold for here – being -8). my mother is supposed to be visiting on friday but i am not sure with the weather if that will happen since the roads on both her and my end will likely be shot. they do plow the highway up here, but not always the side roads.
margot is coming on thursday and this will hopefully occasion us to work on two new/old blog projects… security.resist.ca being converted to blog form (easier to upkeep) and the old tao-van cookbook being turned into a community recipe blog (which may eventually become a print-cookbook as previously planned).
i have also been turning over in my head the need to actually get writing the book i was talking about a year ago – “the little sister’s guide to fighting big brother” which i did draft an outline and start writing for and then bailed on due to lack of motivation. i decided over the holidays (and at the behest of many people recently) that this project is still relevant and i am a very likely person to write it…. i just think i have to structure my time better – but at the same time it is hard to have so many divided attentions and writing a book takes a lot more focus than i have at the moment…….
i have gotten very little real work done today as my head is a bit fuzzy – though i managed to get some study-work done for an upcoming exam (and also had a quiz returned to me today with 97% marked on it! I am currently maintaining an A in both of my Psych courses….) i do however, have to get this ecopsych paper written this week just to get it out of the way so i’m hoping to find time to do that as well as the union writing on my schedule. see what i mean about divided attentions?
how come i can’t do everything?
need to buy ram – suggestions
i need to upgrade the ram in this laptop (ibook – came with 256 meg standard) – preferably by ordering online to a place that ships to canada. any suggestions on reputable dealers? macstation doesn’t seem to have ram chips over 64 megs in their catalogue, compusmart doesn’t deal in ibook ram, and the online apple store sucks rocks for finding anything that isn’t a whole system or ipod related….
so help? i can’t remember the last place i ordered from and i’m not googling it sufficiently fast enough for my frustrated painful state.
more room, less teeth
i now have extra room in the back of my mouth – sans wisdom teeth. david drove me home from the surgeon’s and all in all i’m feeling okay (though i can only eat soft things for the next week, and i’m sure without the T3s i would be gibbering at the moment). i have posession of two of the teeth that came out (apparently the third was smashed beyond saving) – i am going to add them to my collection of other things that have come out of me in the last couple of years (including the titanium pin from my ankle and a couple of fillings that fell out) – clearly this is ample material for voodoo art of some kind.
anyhow – i am at home for the next week, working and recuperating, so if you were looking to catch up with me, this would be a fine opportunity to do it.
nightfall
nightfall and my house is very quiet after a weekend of lovely houseguests. this was a good new year’s gathering, and tomorrow i go to get my wisdom teeth pulled out and then another week of lying about my house trying to simultaneously heal, do the union work i was supposed to be doing the week bob died, and prepare for a final psych exam….. urgh to all of it.
i snapped this picture off my front porch, and it makes me really want a tripod for night shots. i had to stack a bunch of books up on the porch railing to get the camera still enough, and there is still some motion blur in it… but the sky tonight was gorgeous as the sun set between the trees – it’s cold and clear, unusual for this time of year.
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