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it feels like being born night driving; the moon hangs a dangerous height
I have missed bicycling! Last night, coming home from work, the sky was very strange and beautiful, with pale low clouds like smoke with the thinnest promise of flame. To look up from the road and see that -- !
Recent job adventures include: running a little bit late and taking the wrong short-cut, which made me very very late, and cross; having a customer come in to reserve the newest Dresden Files, which is out on the seventh of April (we kind of squee'd at each other... or I squee'd, and he was manly and reserved); having a forty-percent-off coupon, which means that I now own all three of the Eva Ibbotson novels that have appeared at the store (and Jim told me that the coupon could also be used for a boxed set -- we have this freakishly expensive Twilight boxed set that he was trying to get people to buy -- and I am so sad that we no longer have the Time Quartet boxed set with the lovely new watercolour covers and Madeleine L'Engle's Newbury acceptance speech, which is beautiful); and finding out that I am scheduled for three days this week, rather than the two I;ve been working for a while. Hurrah!
Yesterday I attended one of Heidi's basketball games, but the games before hers were taking so long, and I was extremely bored and sore from the wooden bleachers, so Leandra and I went to the playground behind the school, and she went down the slides, and I pushed her on the swings, and she climed everything in sight (I think her favourite thing about the playground might very well be that she can climb anything she sees and no-one is going to yell at her), and then we listened to Benny Goodman (she turns to me sometimes and says, "Nini, BENNY," in pleading yet forceful tones) and the Rupa and the April Fishes song she refers to as "La-laine". And then it was time for Heidi's game, so we went inside. I must confess I had quite a lot of fun. (And Heidi's team won. It was a good afternoon.)
(And then Mum dropped me off at Goodwill, because they were having a fifty-percent-off sale, and Heidi tagged along, and I acquired two pretty dresses, a lovely soft white summer blouse, a striped hat, blue pinstriped trousers, and the first pair of shorts I have owned in a decade. They are knee-length -- I think what Stacy and Clinton refer to as 'walking shorts'? -- and quite sophisticaed, unlike most shorts.)
And this evening I am riding over to Sarah and Hannah's to spend the night and watch films and see NEW TINY KITTENS and things. But first this cake has to finish baking.
Recent job adventures include: running a little bit late and taking the wrong short-cut, which made me very very late, and cross; having a customer come in to reserve the newest Dresden Files, which is out on the seventh of April (we kind of squee'd at each other... or I squee'd, and he was manly and reserved); having a forty-percent-off coupon, which means that I now own all three of the Eva Ibbotson novels that have appeared at the store (and Jim told me that the coupon could also be used for a boxed set -- we have this freakishly expensive Twilight boxed set that he was trying to get people to buy -- and I am so sad that we no longer have the Time Quartet boxed set with the lovely new watercolour covers and Madeleine L'Engle's Newbury acceptance speech, which is beautiful); and finding out that I am scheduled for three days this week, rather than the two I;ve been working for a while. Hurrah!
Yesterday I attended one of Heidi's basketball games, but the games before hers were taking so long, and I was extremely bored and sore from the wooden bleachers, so Leandra and I went to the playground behind the school, and she went down the slides, and I pushed her on the swings, and she climed everything in sight (I think her favourite thing about the playground might very well be that she can climb anything she sees and no-one is going to yell at her), and then we listened to Benny Goodman (she turns to me sometimes and says, "Nini, BENNY," in pleading yet forceful tones) and the Rupa and the April Fishes song she refers to as "La-laine". And then it was time for Heidi's game, so we went inside. I must confess I had quite a lot of fun. (And Heidi's team won. It was a good afternoon.)
(And then Mum dropped me off at Goodwill, because they were having a fifty-percent-off sale, and Heidi tagged along, and I acquired two pretty dresses, a lovely soft white summer blouse, a striped hat, blue pinstriped trousers, and the first pair of shorts I have owned in a decade. They are knee-length -- I think what Stacy and Clinton refer to as 'walking shorts'? -- and quite sophisticaed, unlike most shorts.)
And this evening I am riding over to Sarah and Hannah's to spend the night and watch films and see NEW TINY KITTENS and things. But first this cake has to finish baking.
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She did! Heee.
I'm sorry, but that took me by surprise. What Not to Wear is good fun to watch, but I never thought you would be someone to be familiar with it.
Also, kittens are ♥. Oh, I want a kitten so badly; alas that I'll be off to college in a year where I won't be able to have one.