Fall and fallout

[hrj]

My morning reflexes are always one step behind the seasons. When the Santa Ana hit, I was still wearing turtlenecks and scarves for a couple days, and now that the fog has moved back in I found myself shivering in a polo shirt yesterday. (This is not counting the shivering I do every day at my desk when the bleeping air handling system decides it's time for us to freeze.) Can I please settle down into my winter wardrobe now? It's so much easier not to have to think at 7am. Bad enough I have to figure out what I'm going to wear to my co-worker's wedding tomorrow. (Monterey. Outdoor ceremony. Nothing tailored fits me properly at the moment and I'm not starting in on the alterations until next year. Heavens, I might actually wear a dress.)

If the morning paper hadn't mentioned it, I don't know that I would have attributed my sinus headache and congestion to smoke drifted up from down south. Makes sense, but it could be some local late bloomer after all.

Evenings have been a near-total wash for the last couple weeks. Nothing much in the way of projects accomplished, although a certain amount of running around has been done. I've been thinking that maybe I should try shifting the dinner-and-internet session to the dining room so I don't get the sucked-down-into-the-recliner effect. On the other hand, half the problem is that I don't finish all the errands and chores and get to the dinner-and-internet session until after 8pm in the first place. Well, ok, I have actually started doing a little teensy bit of writing. (But I'm not going to talk about it -- it's much more in the line of "getting back into a habit" than anything that I think is going to go somewhere.)

Comments

[klwilliams.livejournal.com]

I need to get back in the habit of writing, too. And get everything else done, too. Sigh.

[hrj.livejournal.com]

It sounds like you've started on some useful "Life Cleaning" projects, though.

I can relate

[nancytoday.livejournal.com]

That Sucked-down-into-the-recliner state gets me, too! I've taken to sitting in other places now. or just never sitting down!

Lying in a hammock is much better! grin!

Re: I can relate

[hrj.livejournal.com]

Would you be willing to indulge my curiosity and tell me how you came across my journal? I poked around a little on your journal and other than the one person we have in common on our reading lists, I can't figure out where our universes might have intersected. (It's not a problem -- I don't have any objections to people reading my journal -- I'm just curious.)

What a beautiful photo!

[nancytoday.livejournal.com]

Do you really look like that? Wow! someone chopped off all my hair last evening and now I look...well, today I'll have to find a drape to put over the mirror! I friended you, klwilliams.

ah ha!

[nancytoday.livejournal.com]

Well, I decided that I wanted to know who reads my journal...this is a long story, are you ready for this?

So I put a counter on it. I realized two people read it like five times a day each. some others drop in from the sky and leave.

So I thought I'd find out if there are other people out there in the universe that I'd like to ...whatever.

So I did an interests search. After trying to find out who had friended me, which was practically impossible to figure out where that info was!

I realized that toe sucking person had friended me. I wanted to know why, so I read a bit and then is that where I found you?

You looked interesting. Intelligent. Funny. down to earth. My kind of person actually except you are into all sorts of stuff that I wouldn't have thought of being into.

It sounds like your a prof. too. I dunno, I'm just a researcher. I shoulda done a phd so I coudl have funding to find out all my stuff, but instead I do my own reasearch...

for instance...I assume I still have your undivided attention. Maybe not.

So I found this rotting deer and watched the maggots for awhile. strange creatures. Then I did the unthinkable. I captured some in a jar and took them home and watched them.

I fed them a bit. Then i fed them a bit more. So I'm researching them.

I researched monarchs last summer and ended up raising 155 of them from eggs I gathered from milkweed plants.

I dunno, midevil stuff? I can't even spell it! But then my sis is a bigwig researcher at UCSF who's doing genetics stuff. I'm not really into that but I like my sister.

So...it's possible I'll like you, too.

There. Did that answer your question.

And by the by, I was looking at my statscounter and seeing someone from SF opened my page three times and wondered who it was. Now I can put HRJ beside it!

Re: ah ha!

[hrj.livejournal.com]

Ok, so that would be "random interests search". (I do that sometimes when I'm bored and want to see who else listed certain interests. I sometimes wish you could search on logical strings: Interest A and Interest B but not Interest C.)

I'm always curious about trails of connections. My first thought when I looked at your info page and saw that our reading lists overlapped on maestrateresa was that you might be a friend or relative of hers, but that theory fell apart when I looked at your late-September/early-October entries and failed to see ... hmm, this is awkward since I don't know whether you picked it up from reading comments on her last entry ... maestrateresa died just short of a month ago. So since it hadn't come up in your journal at the time, I concluded that my original theory of friend/family was wrong. That seemed to leave random chance, which apparently was correct.