lovely post on maps and territories

http://www.thinkbuddha.org/article/401/mountains-what-mountains

Householding

The blog Cheap, Healthy and Good pointed me to this article by Harriet Housenfest about the fine art of householding.

To quote:

I’m a mother and wife, but not because I’m afraid to be otherwise. I am making a case for revisionist gender politics as it relates to homemaking. Some are good at it and some are not, and it has nothing to do with what’s under your skirt (as it were).

Now that I’ve made that clear, I want to connect the dots, or revise the dots:

1. Householding is not a gender-specific act
2. Householding seeks to revise small-scale systems of home economics
3. Householding eschews fast food, fancy packaging, and marketing hype
4. Householding requires a connection with natural systems
5. Householding sees value in the domestic
6. Householding eschews “economies of scale” as maligned system

Even though I was Betty Crocker homemaker of the year for Jamaica Consolidated High School for 1973 I have never been much of a housekeeper. If I put something away I can't find it and following a recipe takes coorination, in much the same way playing volleyball takes coordination...and I just don't have it.

However, I've been thinking about space and comfort alot...I want to be comfortable in my shell and I'm generally not...this article inspires me to have a more positive point of view.

whedon vs. wheaton...

http://www.paulandstorm.com/archives/geek-madness-final-battle-whedon-vs-wheaton/

I had hoped it wouldn't come down to this...

After sleeping for 14 hours and catching up on my soap I had managed to postpone my lurking nervous breakdown...and now, I must choose....

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a day in the life....my most recent LJ posting

...it's been a strange one. My university library is closing libraries (excuse me...reducing service points) and the librarians in my division are trying to produce a document to satisfy the University Librarian and the AUL so we can get ON with it...well, so I can get on with the work...I have moved collections 3 times in the last 20 years...most recently last summer...and we are gonna do it again. In any case, I had to be at work an hour early because I am the staff rep and I have to keep reminding the capital L's that us small l's need to have input as well.

Got a phone call from a person I haven't seen in over 20 years. He was a med student when I worked at the med school library. We had a "thing" for awhile (before I was living poly) but totally lost touch. He just got on facebook, which is how we connected. [I don't have time at the moment to talk about my feelings about facebook and whether it is good or evil.

Stayed late at work (even though I got here early), went home, watched "All My Children" while eating cottage cheese topped with walnuts and chopped dates (not a bad combination, but it lacked something) and most of a package of cookies (bad idea). Took a nap (just long enough to make my environment very surreal), got up and went back to work (I was late because Steak and Shake was packed with people who were headed to a show at the Assembly Hall.)

Did a little work in between screwing around on the net with a break to call Slash early in the evening (I don't...usually. And he tends to call me when it's inconvenient. And our friendship was strained for awhile. Talking to Dr. Q made me want to talk to Slash because he's good for a girl's ego.

TC and Marcey are at a Pure Romance convention in Vegas this week. Tomorrow TC is going to meet up with an old girlfriend from high school. He says she's marriage material.

It's wet and warm tonight but it is going to be wet and cold tomorrow.

A friend was talking about the quality of being invisible and how valuable it is...I agree. At the same time I really love being part of a web of people.

kittencon 2009

http://www.kittencon.org/

We're gonna party like it's 1929. Low key and simple this year. No, this is not a birthday party for kitten (aka "me"). If you are coming, let us know. I'm looking forward to seeing everyone who shows up.

....it's march

At least February is over...Elliot may have believed that April is cruel, but February flat out sucks.

My March depression gets less severe the older I get, but it hasn't gone away. I have basically done no real work for a week or better (although The Dishes finally got washed). It's too freakin' cold to have much ambition, although I saw a rondel of robins by the parking garage. Managed a twenty minute walk.

I freaked out when I realized that it has been 37 years tomorrow since my accident. Talked to Bill about it a bit, and about loneliness vs. solitude and about feeling cut off. He's one of my oldest friends and I think he understands me. And I am older than some of my student's parents.

I've been splurging on ebooks. Not spending much money, but it's not like I have time to read.

Looking at this, I find that I haven't learned much about writing gracefully. It's still just lists. Oh, to be a poet...

Watchmen opens on my birthday.