Tag: random musings
member name: Kathryn E.
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July 19, 2006 11:47 AM EDT --
Heat's addled my brain
Cannot think
Heat's addled my brain
Vapor steams from my fingers, as they fly on the keyboard
Heat's addled my brain
I cannot sleep
Heat's addled my brain
No AC except . . .
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April 02, 2006 01:36 PM EDT --
On a lazy Sunday afternoon, I call to my two cats, Mao and Cheddar. And they come running.
I called "Baby Fooooood." Sure, they know the words, "Baby Food." They're cats. . . .
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April 07, 2006 05:44 AM EDT --
Lunch counter sit-ins at Woolworths
JFK elected President
Peace Corp program announced
Yuri Gargarin, first man in space
Bay of Pigs
Alan Shepard, first American in space
16,000 U.S. advisors sent to Vietnam . . .
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May 02, 2006 02:59 AM EDT --
Breathing is life.
It is involuntary.
We cannot will ourselves to stop.
But we can will ourselves to breathe faster or slower.
But even this feat cannot last forever.
In the end, we must trust enough . . .
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May 07, 2006 07:47 AM EDT --
I have an idea.
People have emailed me with some ideas about this Monday's Welcome Newcomer article that I'm doing.
A lot of people are doing terrific stuff in that department.
Undiscovered . . .
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May 17, 2006 07:42 AM EDT --
cooking with gas tonight, dirt included
laying it out in the open
soul, dirty
flesh raw, bones bare to skull
god, what have I done
cooking with gas tonight, dirt included
I'm real
we've all got . . .
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April 13, 2006 01:34 PM EDT --
..it's been 10 minutes, and no one has commented, yet.
You've heard the stories: Gather produces an intoxicating high unlike any other. This is all too true. And you don't get a hangover, . . .
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April 18, 2006 10:57 AM EDT --
I have a piece of the Berlin Wall on my refrigerator. This is from 1989, when a friend joined hundreds of thousands, who helped to tear it down.
The piece of the wall is thick concrete, and you can imagine . . .
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May 04, 2006 09:06 PM EDT --
When I was in college, when I felt self-indulgent and wanted to write, I would say 'I'm feeling mossy.'
It was an oblique reference to Walt Whitman. More mundanely, I was feeling creative. . . .
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May 09, 2006 03:24 AM EDT --
"Hey, you there – don't jump."
A short, balding man with a twinkle in his eye and appearing to be ageless, yet elderly, caught the younger man by the arm, and stopped him . . .
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June 15, 2006 10:34 PM EDT --
Breathing is life.
It is involuntary.
We cannot will ourselves to stop.
But we can will ourselves to breathe faster or slower.
But even this feat cannot last forever.
In the end, we must trust enough . . .
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June 17, 2006 05:25 AM EDT --
Customers drive me to the brink of despair and beyond. Some days, everything's too much.
They'll rip open up the plastic bags on the comforters, pull out a comforter, then try to stuff it back . . .
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June 18, 2006 06:19 AM EDT --
Mrs. Oleski, is Stephen your son?
Yes.
Cool. Is Kristina your daughter?
Yes.
Kewl.
Would you like to join the PEN 15 club?
Jim, that line didn't work on me when my kids tried it, either. Your . . .
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July 17, 2006 11:21 PM EDT --
Jimmy Olson, copy boy, ran to Lois. "Clark is missing!"
"Impossible! He was just here a minute ago."
Perry called for Lois.
"Lois, in my office, now! I want you to find Superman. . . .
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August 02, 2006 02:39 AM EDT --
Sherry, I have 16 Candles
For You Belong to Me
This is Dedicated to the One I Love
He's the Leader of the Pack
So, Please Mr. Postman
Take Good Care of My Baby
He's Where the Boys Are
And Stand . . .
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April 16, 2006 09:28 PM EDT --
That's right. A bath. You CAN bathe cats. Cat care books recommend it, but I don't know why. The cat gets wet, cold and meows. You get wet, cold and you howl.
But if you're so inclined, here's . . .
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April 01, 2006 04:13 AM EST --
The morning Sue Hapenny was born, circus elephants danced, lions jumped through rings of fire, and choirs of angels sang throughout the heavens. Or so she was told.
After hours of labor in which . . .
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April 09, 2006 05:29 PM EDT --
When I was at MIT, I worked with the group, the W3C. World Wide Web Consortium.
You can look me up on the website, www.w3c.org. under Alumni, by my maiden name, Kathryn Esplin.
I had come to MIT and . . .
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April 16, 2006 02:31 AM EDT --
(This is a continuing fictional series in the lives of Susan Hapenny and her friends. This installment takes place in 1967, in Monterey, at the Monterey Pop Festival.)
"Our Weekend in Monterey" . . .
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April 19, 2006 03:22 AM EDT --
In 1952, Eisenhower was in the White House, ranches and bungalows sprung up everywhere, men wore Hawaiian shirts on Fridays and gave barbecues on Sunday afternoons. In 1952, women stayed home to mind the . . .
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