Tuesday, December 26, 2006

Playing

Since I'm the only one who will sit still long enough for me to mess with the unfamiliar settings on my new toy...

Monday, December 25, 2006

I do love Christmas Morning

Tuesday, December 19, 2006

In spite of appearances...

... finishing my degree will not amount to finishing my blog. Certainly, it's highly debatable whether or not a thing such as a blog could ever be finished. Anyway, I just didn't have much to say for a while.

We had snow flurries here today. And I attempted to accomplish a lot of Christmas shopping online but succeeded only in wasting a lot of time. Then I watched a very long movie I had already seen more than once. A good day. The kind of day that only comes along with a certain lack of stress.

Oh yes, and I got a new phone. It's a flip phone - black and silver like my road bike. I did not pick it out, or have anything to do with acquiring it. It was literally just handed to me. To be fair, it's not a cool phone. It's merely new.

Then I went through and moved all my contacts from my old phone to my new phone. I did not transfer a lot of them. And I still have eighty-two entries in my new phone. Who are these people? I certainly don't have eighty-two people I call on a regular basis. But there they are, in my phone. Important enough that I fear if I delete their number I might one day want to call them again.

Wednesday, December 13, 2006

Finished

That's what I finally did today. Finished my degrees. It's an odd thing, to know I'll only ever go to school again if I get into grad school.

Immediately after I submitted my last art history test, I cleaned my room. It feels good to sit in space that's not in total disarray.

Jesse arrives in a few hours. Friday I go to Flagstaff again, briefly. Saturday, Meryl and I come back. Two weeks from tomorrow, Brian will arrive. A week or two after that, we'll drive back to Iowa.

In the meantime, I intend to relax.

Wednesday, December 06, 2006

Most of My Stuff is On it's Way to Iowa

Life seems bent on making me absurd lately. I doubt too many people in their mid-twenties prepare for the movers to come by hauling various bins and pieces of furniture across a wash using a very much rusted out little red wagon. Perhaps the pinnacle of my day was when I was transporting Peanut on top of a set of folding shelves. Going down the slope behind my house, the wagon gained a little too much momentum. I tried to slow it down. The shelving unit slipped off the side, creating a nice smooth ramp that Peanut descended gracefully to land face down in the wash.

And, for the record, I don't see any more landscape paintings in my future.

Monday, December 04, 2006

Today's Moment

While lying halfway inside the trunk of a Honda Civic, it occurred to me that only a cartoon character could reasonably hope to accomplish what I was attempting. I must have looked like the Grinch stealing Christmas. But I got the tree home, anyway.