5.9.09
leaving las vegas...ok, not vegas, loa
less than two months from now i will be on my way to a new adventure. leaving my job, the place i've called home for the past 3.5 years, and heading out to do whatever i want for a while in the US and NZ.
exciting.
scary.
god, i have not had this much leisure time in one chunk since i was 11!
this is just when i need to be doing this - oddly not when i have an alternative job offer (have turned down several since i came here) or when i am assured of some great spot in a phd program with a GA that sets me up for the time i am in school. no. it's when i have NOT A CLUE what i am going to do...no idea where i am going to go...and no real way to plan anything because i am going to be in NZ for the 3 months before i have to 'get a life' somewhere.
well...i wanted to come here and learn not to plan too much. wanted to stop worrying about 'what's next' and just be in the now. well it's now and there ain't much more to think about!!!
enjoying the idea and reveling in the void.
later folks...
l.b.
exciting.
scary.
god, i have not had this much leisure time in one chunk since i was 11!
this is just when i need to be doing this - oddly not when i have an alternative job offer (have turned down several since i came here) or when i am assured of some great spot in a phd program with a GA that sets me up for the time i am in school. no. it's when i have NOT A CLUE what i am going to do...no idea where i am going to go...and no real way to plan anything because i am going to be in NZ for the 3 months before i have to 'get a life' somewhere.
well...i wanted to come here and learn not to plan too much. wanted to stop worrying about 'what's next' and just be in the now. well it's now and there ain't much more to think about!!!
enjoying the idea and reveling in the void.
later folks...
l.b.
21.6.09
exterminator in chief
so am thinking about this whole obama killing the fly on tv and have come to one conclusion.
we are obsessed with famous people. so much so that we are unable to realize that killing a fly is not that noteworthy. i know - i do it all the time. this obsession leads us to think that people who are famous cannot do ordinary things. they don't kill pests or snore or watch tv or leave skid marks on their underwear. when famous people do these things what happens?
these things become famous.
and yes, i did watch the fly swatting action on youtube. it was funny. seeing famous people doing mundane things is funny. it's when they do the famous things that we all yawn and ignore them. no one really gets into a tizzy when a movie star makes a movie or a president signs a bill. these things are ho hum in their lives and therefore ours. we expect famous people to do those things and therefore it rarely makes front page news.
i suppose we all get noticed when we do the unexpected. i just think it's funny that we all do those things and expect that famous people do not.
he got that sucker.
20.6.09
summertime
so in honor of the fact that it has been raining and gloomy for the past 3 weeks or so i am going to start singing my summertime song. perhaps i can counteract the continual statement from all of the locals if you mention the weather:
"we need the moisture"
my garden disagrees.
we pick peaches and we make a pie
sit and eat it by the fireside
joking talking lauging feeling wild
summertime is like a happy child
playing kickball on the side yard lawn
running 'round with silly costumes on
drinking whiskey while we're shootin' pool
summertime is when we break the rules
dancing underneath the full moon light
nothing better on a friday night
pickin' strummin' with the violin
summertime it lets the music in
jumping off beside the waterfall
sticking toes in cracks to climb the wall
drinking homebrew while we're throwing discs
summertime is when we take the risks
i miss summer when in comes the fall
winter's cold and isn't for us all
spring is beautiful but just too sweet
summertime it really can't be beat
"we need the moisture"
my garden disagrees.
we pick peaches and we make a pie
sit and eat it by the fireside
joking talking lauging feeling wild
summertime is like a happy child
playing kickball on the side yard lawn
running 'round with silly costumes on
drinking whiskey while we're shootin' pool
summertime is when we break the rules
dancing underneath the full moon light
nothing better on a friday night
pickin' strummin' with the violin
summertime it lets the music in
jumping off beside the waterfall
sticking toes in cracks to climb the wall
drinking homebrew while we're throwing discs
summertime is when we take the risks
i miss summer when in comes the fall
winter's cold and isn't for us all
spring is beautiful but just too sweet
summertime it really can't be beat
18.6.09
life on mars
got an email from my sister today that was pretty funny.
"I was bored and looking up the dinosaur dig that we saw in Hanksville and I found out some interesting information about the area. If you all remember, we saw a research station while driving along scenic Cow Dung Road. We all speculated at the time about its purpose and I wanted to inform you all that it is the Mars Desert Research Center; Popular Science did a feature on it: http://www.popsci.com/military-aviation-amp-space/article/2009-01/getting-ready-mars-migration
Anyway, I thought it was cool...and I'm giggling to myself as I sit here picturing a group of pissed off teenagers (suffering from drug withdrawal) pushing Mormon handcarts through the desert running into a group of highly trained scientists wearing high-tech space suits (training for a Mars exploation) while a lizard chuckles (and enjoys his dragonfly lunch) from a nearby a bentonite rock!"
just loving the way she writes!!!
not to mention that i think it's amazing that they are preparing to land on mars about 45 minutes from where i live. there are days when i think that living in utah is like living on another planet but, well, this takes that a little to literally!
"I was bored and looking up the dinosaur dig that we saw in Hanksville and I found out some interesting information about the area. If you all remember, we saw a research station while driving along scenic Cow Dung Road. We all speculated at the time about its purpose and I wanted to inform you all that it is the Mars Desert Research Center; Popular Science did a feature on it: http://www.popsci.com/military-aviation-amp-space/article/2009-01/getting-ready-mars-migration
Anyway, I thought it was cool...and I'm giggling to myself as I sit here picturing a group of pissed off teenagers (suffering from drug withdrawal) pushing Mormon handcarts through the desert running into a group of highly trained scientists wearing high-tech space suits (training for a Mars exploation) while a lizard chuckles (and enjoys his dragonfly lunch) from a nearby a bentonite rock!"
just loving the way she writes!!!
not to mention that i think it's amazing that they are preparing to land on mars about 45 minutes from where i live. there are days when i think that living in utah is like living on another planet but, well, this takes that a little to literally!
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