Author: Elaine

Now here’s Chad:

This is in a stubble phase, which we are currently in. (I love Chad’s facial hair. I know it’s weird, but I totally envy his ability to change appearance whenever.)

I took a long (1 & 1/2 hour) nap, while he went off biking. Makes me feel horribly lazy.

This is me as if I were a web cartoon character, courtesy of stor. Not that I’d ever wear a midrif-baring shirt….

did I have a sign on my back that said, “ask me about my Handspring Visor“? 4 people (2 on the way up, 2 on the way back) asked me about my PDA yesterday. then again, I love babbling on about the damn thing.

okay, now there’s a weird thing – the rest of my page, with the exception of the last post, and the day/time of the post before that, are just gone.

sigh. haven’t written anything today. haven’t done much surfing either. but hey, that’s why they call it work.

hoping that the sun will last long enough for me to get in a walk….

yes, many, many meetings. but in the back of my mind, poetry. I am reading The Tale of Murasaki, which has lots of waka (am I remembering that correctly?). she uses the waka as a kind of barometer of her life. I’m finding that remarkably inspirational, and have written several nature-y poems over the last 2 days.

hmmm. I sorta wish this had been around when I was going to write that paper in college about women’s writing in Japanese literature – I had such a hard time finding anything on that topic that I ended up writing about the puppet theater instead. of course, it would have been nice to have the WWW too, but that was still in its infancy. (which is a topic for another day, I think)

as an ending note, here’s what I wrote on my way back from lunch:

a bright cloud
blows over our heads
gathers rain
and hides the sun
we are cast into shadow

so many meetings….

feeling really good this morning. relaxed and already hard at work! and I’m writing poetry again, which feels mentally nourishing.

“there is still one form of bigotry that is accepted in america – bigotry against the successful” just heard of the repub legislators say that on NPR. sheesh. as if. this is the country that invented fawning over celebrities. what a lame-ass excuse for giving a tax cut to the rich!