Eleanor Arnason's Blog, page 122

A Picture Is Worth 1,000 Words

This is from Yves Smith's wonderful economics blog Naked Capitalism. Most economists put in charts, when they want visuals. Yves intersperses economic news (often dire, these days) with enchanting animal photos.[image error]

Dream

Patrick has much better dreams than I do. This is one of his.

He had a deep blue plastic card with a hole, so he could wear it on a key chain.

If he took it off the key chain and laid it on a flat surface, it became the ocean.

If he set laid it on one side, he was standing on a rocky shore with the ocean in front of him.

If he turned it over and laid in on the other side, it became a harbor town.

Then he could pick it up, and it was a plastic card again, and he could put it back on his key chain.[image error]

Daily Report

I had an appointment over in Minneapolis this morning. On the way back, I stopped at the downtown Barnes & Noble and bought the new novel in C.J. Cherryh's Foreigner series, also a copy of Poetry magazine.
It's a sunny day. The trees are leafing out nicely. Lawns are green. I've seen dandelions, crocuses and some flowering trees. Most years, there are a couple of perfect weeks in the Twin Cities, when the sky is blue and clear and the lilacs are blooming. We are not there yet, but we are getting

Sunday

When I got home last night, I had a message on my home phone from the Executive Director of the job I'm really interested in. He wanted to talk about the job and left a number.

It was eight at night on a Saturday, which didn't seem to me like a time to talk business. But Patrick through I should call back immediately. So I did and left a message saying I'd home all day Sunday, and otherwise I'd call on Monday.

I was startled because the person I had talked to previously said they weren't going to

Duluth

The James Barker, a thousand foot lake boat, was due in Duluth early this afternoon. Patrick and I went up to watch it come in through the shipping canal.

The day began sunny and then became partly cloudy as we got close to Duluth. The trees around the Twin Cities are leafing out. When we got about seventy miles north, there were buds but no leaves.

It's a drive I always like, even when we take the Interstate, as we did today. The highway comes over a hill, and all at once you can see lake Superi

Pete Seegar

I began to wonder about the Pete Seegar story, when I realized that Seegar was 20 in 1939, something very simple math could have told me. I checked his biography in Wikipedia. He was politically active as a young man in the late 1930s. However, per Wikipedia, he met Guthrie in 1940.

Maybe the story took place in the 1940s, though Seegar was in the Pacific during the war.

Maybe the story took place in the later 1940s.[image error]

May Day

Because it is May Day, the traditional workers holiday, and because there is a big concert in New York this weekend in celebration of Pete Seegar's 90th birthday, I will tell my favorite Pete Seegar story.

It seems that Seegar and Woodie Guthrie were doing some union organizing in Minnesota's North Woods in the 30s; and they were doing a show for a bunch of Scandinavian American loggers in a logging camp.

They played some music and told some jokes; and the loggers just sat there with stony faces.

Looking for Work

I just got a call from the one job that looked really good. They are going to interview me.

This is cheering news.[image error]

Thanks

For the suggestions on networking in comments to the previous post. I will follow up on all suggestions.

My mood is jumping around a lot, up one moment and down the next. This evening I have been feeling down. The suggestions cheered me up.[image error]

Dentist

Our car is with Patrick in Fargo. I had a medical appointment in Minneapolis yesterday, which took 20 minutes, but 3+ hours travel time on mass transit. Today I have a dental appointment in Minneapolis, which will take as long or longer.

However, this post is actually about Face Book. I signed up for Face Book a year ago and could not figure out its appeal. Now I have. It is great if you are out of work and feeling socially isolated. I can start every day with little comments from people I know