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Sadly, I really want to do almost nothing this weekend, but my weekends are chock-a-block full. And this one maybe more so than others as there is a Mozart mass in town with the brilliant soprano Karina Gauvin. What an amazing singer. Speaking of aural dreams, TPBM prefers Karina Gauvin to Isabel Barakdarian.
Never heard of them before, sorry.TPBM is feeling unusually motivated today. I'm thinking that I'll get my word count in for the day then maybe write a paper...? Maybe? We shall see.
They're okay.TPBM's wrist hurts from all the typing they've been doing today.
No...TPBM hopes Stephanie's wrist gets better soon!!!
Well, lots to do, and I want to do it, but the day has too few hours.TPBM is waiting with excitement about getting an important phone call.
Actually, I'm not, since I am not expecting any calls of any sort from anyone about anything.TPBM enjoys Homeland, the series.
LoL! Yes, my whole life. And that is to decode why the answer to the meaning of life is 42.TPBM had a peanut butter and banana sandwich for lunch, today.
LoL! That is so funny, because I have a clean shaven head, and a furry face.TPBM has started writing a story for WSS week 144.
True, but we had a very late lunch, so supper will be an ad hoc thing - unplanned.TPBM's will be listening Canadian indie music tonight to help with writing.
I have never heard of this, let alone tried it. But, now that you've mentioned it, I will see if I can find it.TPBM has never heard the song 'American Woman' by The Guess Who.
Seriously no! Ham sandwich and then a croissant and coffee for desert.TPBM will be having pork chops for supper tonight.
Still a work in process. I am just about to get up and throw a couple of grain fed and humanely raised chickens into the oven. Perhaps cauliflower and mashed potatoes as the accompaniment. TPBM is going try watching Once Upon a Time tonight and find it surprisingly complex and entertaining.
I raise some so yes.TPBM has seen the Avengers?
No. It seems to have been overproduced, and nothing I've seen/read has convinced me that it is worth watching.TPBM was surprised at the complexity and sophisticated historical commentary of the movie The Watchmen.
sadly no, for once I have both, which is pretty rare for me :DTPBM is going to try to get to bed before midnight?
Yes, I am going to try, but will likely fail.TPBM is listening to rain heavy rain falling on the roof while writing something funny.
No. The sun is shining but my sense of humor wears a dull patina of contrariness.TPBM was surprised recently by a message in a fortune cookie.
Nope.TPBM has birds flying outside their window.
Finishing dinner at the Kon-Tiki Restaurant one night, I broke open a fortune cookie and read the message: “Your problem lies not in lack of ability but in lack of ambition.” There it was, the story of my life. I carried that little strip of paper in my wallet for years, knowing that, whatever abilities I might possess, I had no ambition to make use of them. So I became a photographer.TPBM loves to take pictures!
Actually, I can. I am struggling a little to stay awake. And, I take it, that you are not flexible? Or that you are but no one around you will admire it?
TPBM has managed to avoid reading The Giver, perhaps the single most overrated book ever written.
Oh, no. I never believe anything M says.TPBM is going to sleep well tonight and have pleasant dreams.
No, not really. It's okay.Yes, I missed the connection between flexibility and vacuuming. Doh! It seemed I posted at the same time as M.
And I hope for Al to have pleasant dreams tonight — and I will deconstruct the dream she sent me.
TPBM is open to trusting a Chinese fortune cookie provided in a restaurant named after a ocean going raft made of balsa wood.
I'm not too sure of that one. Sounds quite interesting though. TPBM feels good about himself/herself today.
Yes, I did struggle to wake up this morning. What with fire crackers bursting all over the place. Today, it's Diwali in India: the festival of lights! TPBM is listening to his/her favorite sound track right now.
Nope, watching Blues Clues with my younger sibs.TPBM got paid today?
Yup.TPBM is just finished reading a very well written book that was a gift from a good friend.
Yes, he does. And that made me laugh. And I just finished watching a silly movie that helped lift my spirits. But now I am hitting the kip.TPBM stumbled into a new song that made them glad to be alive.
Yes!!! That, and a new book. It's hard to get much better than that.TPBM is happily reading away the hours before school.
No, although that would have been an excellent choice. It was some weird graphic novel movie transcription with Ron Pearlman, Demi Moore, Woody Harrelson and Josh Hartnett. Lots of cartoon violence and the triumph of good over evil.Sadly, no, unless reading WSS counts as reading.
TPBM was oddly disappointed with the last book they read.
Yes, but it is pretty much cold now. Getting time to brew tea.
I will.TPBM is now drinking imaginary tea with thanks to someone else and is finding it far less satisfying than drinking real tea.
Very!!! And now we get to have breakfast for dinner, which just doubled the awesomeness of my day.TPBM thinks breakfast for dinner is probably one of her favorite dinner meals.
Nope!TPBM is wide-eyed and bushy-tailed. XD
No. My tail’s dragging and toothpicks are holding my eyelids up.TPBM is in the mood to read something her mother had better not find out about.
Guy wrote: "No, although that would have been an excellent choice. It was some weird graphic novel movie transcription with Ron Pearlman, Demi Moore, Woody Harrelson and Josh Hartnett. Lots of cartoon violence..."Oh. I have seen that DVD in a store once!!! I forget what it is called. . .
YES!!TPBM is beginning to worry about what to buy for Christmas.
Actually, I'd love a hug, but don't really need one.TPBM would love to give someone who needs a hug a hug.
And right back at you. I hope you managed to get the nice warm bath and jasmine tea and the time to meditate.As to the good book, sort of. I am reading an interesting summary of Jung's ideas. The author, Anthony Stevens, is the first person I have read that made the same observation I did about Jung and Chomsky: that Chomsky's language engine and Jung's collective unconscious are really nearly identical conceptualizations of the birth of consciousness/language.
TPBM would like to find some of Guy's weird asides interesting, but instead finds them mostly boring or, even worse, silly and irrelevant.
No I like them very much.TPBM is already thinking of what to do during the month of December.
LoL! Thank you CJ and Al! That was a very nice hug! I'll pay it back to Al who needs one right now.No. My wife does all the thinking of Christmas for me.
And I am writing here in WSS instead of writing my latest book review.
TPBM has already begun Christmas decorating.
LoL! ML has already got most of the living decorations up, and the lights went up on the balcony on Friday.Of course, our Thanksgiving was over a month ago. Oh, when I say 'the lights went up' what I am really saying is that I put them up.And yes, one holiday at a time is even too many.
TPBM wishes that holidays had less to do with buying stuff than spending quiet time with friends and family.
nope, can't stand the stuff.TPBM has need of a hair cut?
No, but I’m dreaming about it!TPBM has too many books for the number of bookcases he or she has.
Yup. Pretty much the story of this week.TPBM wants to sleep but is unable to.
Nope. Well, not in the near future!TPBM is already a parent :P
Lol. Yes, I just knew the answer already! :) Yup. Dying to watch a good movie. Any suggestions?
TPBM is really in need of some inspiration. (I am.)
Thanks, Alex. I'l try to watch that one. I haven't watched it as yet. Hmm, not sure. I've had a pretty exhausting day. I should be sleeping actually, having travelled more than 300 miles. But unable to. But I've got a lot of fodder for writing (visited an ancient temple which had 1000 pillars!)
TPBM has a kind heart but doesn't put up with unreasonable people.
Yup. Pretty cold day, today. I've gulped down anything and everything available. That sort of a day. Here's the link, a short bio on the temple: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thousand...
TPBM is looking forward to this weekend!
Yes and no. I tend to be alive in the immediate moment, and when the weekend arrives it does so as a pleasant surprise.TPBM wonders if temples have more to do with human egos then metaphysical entities.
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TPBM just had a wonderful lunch :D