Quiet day Sunday. I read two books, watched two Highlander episodes (one of which was *amazingly* bad), and went to the gym. Biked for 10 minutes (2 or 3 miles?) but couldn’t take it anymore because the news channel in the cardio room kept coming back to the Columbia, and every time I looked up there was something about it on. Even without sound, I just couldn’t stand it. I don’t want to see the mourning families, I don’t want to see re-plays of the explosion, and I _really_ don’t…
in news that’s not tragedy
Very pleasant evening had at the Murphy/Lee household tonight. Mom & Dad came over for dinner and we watched the extended version of Fellowship of the Rings, which definitely had some good bits that shoulda been in the movie. Also, it had an intermission, which also shoulda been in the movie. :) Moving backwards through the day, we went to The Music Man, which was the guitar shop I was told did rent-to-owns. Well, that’s true, but they don’t do it for the kind of guitar I was told to…
I’ve trod the high untrespassed sanctity of space…
Columbia explosion. I’m having a hard time saying or writing those words, because my fingers, my mouth, my brain, all know the words. “Challenger explosion”, and having to put a new word, a new shuttle, into that space makes me stutter and break. Several years ago, my dad asked me if there was anything in my generation, a defining moment that we all remembered, like his generation remembered the Kennedy assassination. It took no thought at all to answer, “The Challenger.” My friends, the people I know, the people I’ve…
goals: year to date
This is the only thing I meant to post this morning. I wish it was the only thing there was to post. Goals: year to date Words written anticipated: 34,100 actual: 35,000 Miles biked anticipated: 0 actual: 9.25 Miles swum anticipated: 10 actual: 5.5 Drawings drawn anticipated: 10 actual: 2 Books read anticipated: 10 actual: 10 Pounds lost anticipated: 2.5 actual: +1
shuttle disaster, mark 2
oh, god. no. not again. just a couple of days ago i was watching a ‘remember the challenger’ special blort on cnn. and remembering like i always do, the shock and disbelief i felt. And remembering the drawing that an ElfQuest fan did in rememberence, a picture of Skywise standing in front of a television with an expression of incredible sorrow on his face, head lowered and fingertips on the top of the tv, and below it written the date. To me, because I’m a great ElfQuest fan, that image…