Gray Sunday
Oct. 17th, 2004 12:17 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jlhWow, I'm really spammy this weekend. The weather is gray and dreary and cold and the tree outside my window is starting to turn and it all makes me homesick for Maine and the beautiful bleak time when fall turns to winter, when there are no leaves left on the trees but snow hasn't fallen yet (or at least, hasn't stuck) and there are brown leaves underfoot everywhere. The best time is that time after the summer people, between leaf peepers and skiers, when the people from away have left us to our rural solitude. The ocean is getting darker and darker blue as the weather gets colder and it crashes on the rocks. It's as though the entire landscape is shouting, "How do you like me now, when I'm ugly and forbidding?" and I can only answer, "I love you, because you are beautiful and you are my home." So there's a big clue to my psychology, if you want it.
Speaking of which, I did the handwriting thing but it wasn't that interesting. I suppose this is because I have fairly neat cursive; I only write cursive when I am doing something that takes time, like writing in my journal. If I'm taking notes in a meeting or writing fiction, where voices (external or in my head) are moving faster than my hand, I print. (This is one reason I prefer to write on the computer; I can type pretty much as fast as I can think but I certainly can't print that fast.) So my cursive has stayed neat, and printing is always neat anyway. Therefore my analysis came out with a lot of "Clio is moderate" blah blah blah. Whatever.
I'm finding that it is taking a long time to recover from this latest trip, physically and emotionally. I think I'm going to lay low today and maybe cook some chili later. Maybe do some writing, which will likely make me feel better, or at least more myself.
By the way, for those of you that saw![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
pegkerr's post on the subject, yes, the Bush campaign has been keeping lots of people out of their rallies; NPR's Nina Totenberg (who has the legal beat, does probably the best reporting on the Supreme Court, and broke the Anita Hill story) covered the issue on Morning Edition last week.
Veda is still recovering too, I think. She's exceptionally clingy this weekend. I'm going to take her to the vet next weekend, and hopefully they can make her a little bit more palatable to strangers. We'll see. She really is a good cat even if everyone else hates her.
Speaking of which, I did the handwriting thing but it wasn't that interesting. I suppose this is because I have fairly neat cursive; I only write cursive when I am doing something that takes time, like writing in my journal. If I'm taking notes in a meeting or writing fiction, where voices (external or in my head) are moving faster than my hand, I print. (This is one reason I prefer to write on the computer; I can type pretty much as fast as I can think but I certainly can't print that fast.) So my cursive has stayed neat, and printing is always neat anyway. Therefore my analysis came out with a lot of "Clio is moderate" blah blah blah. Whatever.
I'm finding that it is taking a long time to recover from this latest trip, physically and emotionally. I think I'm going to lay low today and maybe cook some chili later. Maybe do some writing, which will likely make me feel better, or at least more myself.
By the way, for those of you that saw
pegkerr's post on the subject, yes, the Bush campaign has been keeping lots of people out of their rallies; NPR's Nina Totenberg (who has the legal beat, does probably the best reporting on the Supreme Court, and broke the Anita Hill story) covered the issue on Morning Edition last week.Veda is still recovering too, I think. She's exceptionally clingy this weekend. I'm going to take her to the vet next weekend, and hopefully they can make her a little bit more palatable to strangers. We'll see. She really is a good cat even if everyone else hates her.
