• plansplansplans

    August 12, 2004
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    so, i applied for an opening in the HR dept here at ‘nova. it’s a grade lower than my present position, but that’s fine by me as long as i can retain my present salary (which i think i can as long as i’m not earning more than the salary range for the lower grade). i’m also planning on sending in a resume for a position in our karate school. i’m sure that one will be a much lower salary, but at this point, i’ll do anything to get out of this library.

    feeling kinda yucky ’bout the whole thing. not yucky about leaving the library…this place has gone to the dogs. i refuse to sit through another staff meeting being castigated by joe. almost every person i know who isn’t in his very small inner circle is either looking for a job elsewhere or is actively disassociating themselves emotionally. it’s really all you can do in a situation like this. can’t complain to anyone and expect anything to be done. that’s not the villanova way. no, i’m feeling yucky because i’ll be leaving some decent people out on a lurch…but, in a way, that’s rather satisfying…a bunch of people will finally find out what a bear running this dept. really is. heh. gee…i don’t think i feel yucky about leaving at all now. an evil sort of giddiness is bubbling up.

    so…i hope something comes of the resumes. worse comes to worse, i’ll get a job baggin groceries at whole foods. actually, that sounds rather nice. go to work…hang out w/people into organics, yoga, and alternative lifestyles. no responsibility beyond the job. lots more time for art and gardening.

    yeah…sounds better all the time.

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  • wisdom

    August 6, 2004
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    sitting in easy pose on the couch, laptop appropriately on the lap, putting off trudging upstairs to install oodles more memory in my mac (memory brni so sweetly bought for me. graci baby!).

    jess had his impacted wisdom teeth removed today. he only had three. his surgeon told him to thank me for that. barely half an hour after the doctor took him he was done. they called me into the recovery cubby to sit with him for another half hour.

    jess was stoned. definitely stoned. i was jealous. he saw me and said, “hey, mama! do i have holes in my head?” i told him he did and he said, “when are they going to take my teeth out?” i told him they already did. he was done. he said, “i’m done? heeeeyyyyy…they only took a second!”

    he went on and on talking, laughing and philosophizing about teeth. he explained to me how he was only using 30% of his right, front tooth, 10% of his upper lip, 50% of his lower lip and 90% of his tongue, but 0% of his jaw to talk. he then decided that they should put a video camera in the recovery cubbies to tape people after surgery, “because 9 out of 10…no, 3 out of 20 people are really funny. they could tape them and then sell the tapes on the market and make a fortune!” i laughed so hard i wheezed. what my loved ones refer to as my “muttly laugh.”

    finally, it was time to go.

    and his temper turned.

    he wanted to go to the gryphon for coffee. he didn’t care that he wasn’t allowed to drink coffee or talk a lot or that people might be put off by the guy with the gauze in his mouth dribbling blood-tinged saliva. i told him i couldn’t, in good conscience, drop him off at the gryphon but if he left to go there later, that was his choice.

    he railed and ranted for several hours about leaving, etc. i managed to distract him with ibuprofen, vicadin, ice packs, yogurt w/molasses and a reiki session until the anesthesia and novocaine wore off. by 3:30 his was still loaded but at least not totally fucked up, so i took him to whole foods to buy soft foods and then drove him home.

    my hands are empty. i hope he’s ok.

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  • good friends

    August 4, 2004
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    it’s always nice to see good friends. johnC and his wife of 3 months dropped by on their way from louisiana to a family gathering in nova scotia. we hadn’t seen john since brni and i went to new orleans some years ago. we first met john *in person* in 94 when brni, jess and i took a road trip out to new mexico. on that trip we hooked up with a lot of people from the politics list, plus family and friends. in between people stops, we did the tent camping thing. great way to see everything and sleep on the cheap. john was one of our politics people.

    i took off a half day from work yesterday to clean up the house and prepare food for their arrival. it was a great excuse to fix up my office/spare bedroom since jess had been staying with us the past couple months. i just need to do a little more to the room to get it the way i want it…efficient and peaceful for me to do my work but cozy for guests.

    their expected arrival was 5pm and they were right on time. i hardly ever get where i’m hoping to end up at the expected time. i wonder why that is?

    anyway…

    we had a tasty dinner of blackened tuna, fiesta salad (a concoction i made up that is sort of a tangy gazpacho w/out the soup), tossed green salad and tomatoe slices with basil and olive oil. we watched bubba hotep before they retired around 10:45. they intended to get an early, 5am start in order to hit the maine/cananda border by nightfall. brni set his alarm for 4am to make them a parting pot of coffee, but they had snuck out sometime before that. owell…intentions were good.

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  • brni’s heroic feets

    August 2, 2004
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    brni’s bro, lennie, had a birthday party yesterday for sarah. it was a nice mix of people, young and old, and dogs. though loki was the smallest of the three, her speed, agility and general fearlessness put her firmly in the alpha position. until the stray entered the mix.

    all three dogs had followed sarah over to the front of the house. sarah was either trying to herd her niece in through the front door or away from it…i never got that part clear in my head. anyway, the dogs had all gathered in a rather tight pack when the stray came up to them. meanwhile, brni had followed the dogs to make sure they didn’t end up in the street.

    somehow, the toddler found herself in the middle of the now very tense group of snarling dogs. brni said, “i’m going to pick you up now” and the baby said, “ok.” he had just gotten her out of the line of pricked ears and bared teeth when he realized loki was trapped. the stray managed to flip her over on her back and was trying to get to her throat. brni started kicking the dog while still holding the toddler above the fray. a feat of feets, one might say. the dog took off after the third kick.

    loki was bit in the face. we washed her off with soap and water, treated her with antibacterial ointment and figured everything was ok since she didn’t seem to be feeling any pain.

    the next morning we saw that she her eye was red and swollen…a dog version of a black eye.

    o….and the cur gave her fleas.
    😦

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  • the future is now

    August 2, 2004
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    went over to charlie & kim’s for peach cobbler after sushi on saturday. conversation wound around to tarot cards and the i ching. kim retrieved her book of i ching and since i’d never done it before, i threw the pennies to find out about my life. things did not go as i’d hoped.

    i have never indulged in getting my palm read, going to an astrologer or fortune teller. there was a reason for this.

    so i toss the pennies down six times while kim records them to build my hexagram.

    she said, hmmmm. you’re stuck.
    i’m stuck?
    you’re stuck.
    charlie said, that’s the present. what’s her future?
    kim said, she doesn’t have a future. she’s stuck.

    which is precisely why i’ve never gone to a fortune teller.
    *sigh*

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  • thunder moon

    July 31, 2004
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    after days and nights of heavy rains, a clear but muggy night to honor the thunder moon. loki celebrated by ripping apart a rather soggy spider plant that was wedged next to the banana plants. she came in happy and thickly covered with swampy black dirt.
    the ensuing bath with baby shampoo was not quite the reaction she was going for, though she did seem to enjoy the warm dryer.

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