Sad news

The Bad Man was not voted out. Instead, a pawn was medevacced. I hope they don't have to amputate his leg or anything.


Today's earrings: monkeys, alligators

Bedtime reading: Howl's Moving Castle, Diana Wynn Jones

Tomorrow's to-do list

- Call landlord about the dead bird outside my window
- Clean house
- Collect dry cleaning
- Do half a day's work
- Chip at the weekend a little and see if an agenda emerges, like a lion from marble
- Watch Survivor; hopehopehope that The Bad Man gets voted out; discuss with b2

I feel like I'm forgetting something.


Today's earrings: owls, estrogen molecules

Bedtime reading: Howl's Moving Castle, Diana Wynne Jones

So, Friday

Tentative plan is lunch w/ b2, then get scooped up into the family hovercraft and flit north. I hope that works for everyone.

I'm looking forward to seeing Tiger, too. :)


p.s. Watch this: http://vimeo.com/3514904


Today's earrings: flowers, other flowers

Bedtime reading: Howl's Moving Castle, Diana Wynne Jones

The fiscal year is waning

and the folks at the head office are most eager that we should use all our vacation days before June 1. So! Half-days for the rest of the week, taking Monday off, and then I have to devise more leisure. Perhaps I could go east. I should definitely have lunch with sisters...


Today's earrings: rockets, men

Bedtime reading: Howl's Moving Castle, Diana Wynne Jones

Meeting of the Planning Committee

...delayed slightly, d/t my failure to set my alarm. We finally convened at noon at the Dancing Square. It was an extremely productive meeting. The Lead Designer produced two working plans (one with a big wide stretch of window, one with a big wide stretch of counter) to be presented to the prospective contractor for costing. The meeting broke up around two.

On the way home, I said, "It's a really nice day. We should go look at the ocean." So we did.

There were kites.



Today's earrings: squirrels, coins

Bedtime reading: Howl's Moving Castle, Diana Wynne Jones

tis Friday

rejoice in your weekend, my friends. I'm taking Monday off, too. :)


Today's earrings: spiders, estrogen molecules

Bedtime reading: Howl's Moving Castle, Diana Wynne Jones

Places to go

I fell in behind a guy with a beard going up the stairs at Embarcadero Station. We both got on the cable car.

The cable car conductor told me I was sitting there so peaceful, he wondered... He said he didn't think I was just getting off work, and I wasn't coming from the bars, and he knew I wasn't a tourist [I used a fast pass], so he wondered. I told him I'd come from my brother-in-law's birthday dinner, which we'd capped off with a game of Scrabble. "I knew it was something nice," he said. I don't know that I'm comfortable being so patently respectable.

I got off at the market, and I found myself following the same guy with the beard across the street and into the store. He grabbed a basket; I grabbed a basket. We were both heading for the produce section when he suddenly, with a backward glance, peeled off at the bakery counter. I think he thought I was following him. Maybe I'm not so patently respectable after all. :)


Today's earrings: compasses

Bedtime reading: Howl's Moving Castle, Diana Wynn Jones

Missing Audrey II

The original plan for today was to go see a rare bloom. Instead, we got some Chinese, and then we took a straw poll, which resulted in a change of plan. A&I went went shopping for dinner, and the rest of the crew headed for the steam trains.

I made my debut at the Berkeley Bowl today. There were many people there. Many, many people. And vegetables. Lots of vegetables. Then we went to Trader Joe's. Fewer people, fewer vegetables.

We got back to M's, and found a Scrabble game in progress. Turns out D had fallen asleep on the way to the trains, so they'd gone for root beer float makings. We gave them chocolate. :)

A started cooking while I got in on the next round of Scrabble. I won. Sorta. My big play was an 80-point bingo that M found for me.

T&S turned up, and we had a lovely evening. Good food. Fun people. T&S invited us all for Thanksgiving this year. I had pretty much planned on going east.

A brought me home. Thanks, A!


Today's earrings: flies, dragonflies

Bedtime reading: Howl's Moving Castle, Diana Wynn Jones