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My 49th Birthday
Nov. 12th, 2005 01:18 amI am up trying to finish homework for a class that is scheduled to run from 9am to 3pm or so today. The work is going slowly when it is going at all. The best part of it has been watching Dark Star for the first time in more than a decade.
As I shifted from living room to bedroom, ostensibly to keep writing my papers, I brought with me my first birthday presents of the day. Jondy sent me two wonderful gifts, one of which I should have expected as she told me she would send it (but I had forgotten, as is my wont) and the other a surprise. The Ladyhawke dvd is a treat - a movie I will happily watch many times over. The book she sent is Bloom's Bouquet of Imaginary Words. It is filled with words that ought to exist and don't (yet)! It is a compact book, just right for in a pccket or reading with one hand. It is very full for such a slim volume.
My second set of presents was two books from Susan with a very sweet note inside on a card that matched the bag they were all in. "I always look up the word e.gre.gious" is the first book - a vocabulary book or people who do not need vocabulary books, says the top of the front cover. Lincoln's Melancholy: How Depression Challenged a President and Fueled His Greatness is the other title.
I know a bit about some of the other things that are in the mail already. I suspect I have some surprises, as well. Certainly one really big surprise that I already have part of.
Ah well, back to 'work.'
As I shifted from living room to bedroom, ostensibly to keep writing my papers, I brought with me my first birthday presents of the day. Jondy sent me two wonderful gifts, one of which I should have expected as she told me she would send it (but I had forgotten, as is my wont) and the other a surprise. The Ladyhawke dvd is a treat - a movie I will happily watch many times over. The book she sent is Bloom's Bouquet of Imaginary Words. It is filled with words that ought to exist and don't (yet)! It is a compact book, just right for in a pccket or reading with one hand. It is very full for such a slim volume.
My second set of presents was two books from Susan with a very sweet note inside on a card that matched the bag they were all in. "I always look up the word e.gre.gious" is the first book - a vocabulary book or people who do not need vocabulary books, says the top of the front cover. Lincoln's Melancholy: How Depression Challenged a President and Fueled His Greatness is the other title.
I know a bit about some of the other things that are in the mail already. I suspect I have some surprises, as well. Certainly one really big surprise that I already have part of.
Ah well, back to 'work.'
