Years ago, maybe in Shape magazine, I read an article about a woman in LA who happened to go to the same gym as Jamie Lee Curtis. This gym had a track of its own, and one day JLC went running by this woman without acknowledging her, and the woman had a high school flashback, like JLC was one of the popular cheerleaders who’d never had the time of day for anybody who wasn’t as gorgeous as she was, and it really pissed the woman off, so she went and…
ghost of fish chowders past
i had big plans for today. i was gonna get up and swim, then come home and write, and maybe go for a walk this afternoon. instead, at 2 or so in the morning, the Ghost of Fish Chowders Past came to visit, and the next several hours were something of a pyrotechnic nightmare. at least, i think it was the GoFCP; it’s about the only thing in the last couple days i’ve eaten that ted hasn’t, and it may’ve had scallops or something in it. it was Very Fishy…
still not dead!
Ted and I have been having Adventures! :) Yesterday we drove down to Kinsale, which is in fact very pretty. It reminds me a great deal of Homer, Alaska, except without the mountains. Still, it’s got that Cosmic Hamlet By The Sea feeling to it. We actually mostly only walked down along the shore, rather than exploring the town any, because by the time we got back from walking down the shore it was starting to rain and I was all tired out from the wind and chill. :) I…
floating alien dandelion
Here’s the dandelion I was so pleased with. (The original photo is here, for comparison.)
I’m back!
Did you miss me? My uncle Packy is in Ireland for a couple weeks, so he and my parents came down Tuesday afternoon and hung out for the evening. Packy took off for Places Unknown on Wednesday morning, and Mom and Dad stayed to visit a little longer. Wednesday I trundled in to the fair trade shop, where work was considerably more entertaining than it was last week, mostly because two other volunteer/worker people were also there. One’s Irish and her paying job is web design and she thought she…