1/4/07

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[Note: this post was originally written in the first week of March. Today it is April; I planted hyacinths, narcissi, and tulips in the yard.]

This is really cute. Really cute, but also a little strange.

But I'm a horrible sucker for ducklings (I still scream "DUCKIES!" like a six-year-old at Easter displays), so here he is:

Meet Stumpy (How horrible. Don't the people who name baby animals have any imagination? I would definitely have gone with "Slepnir." (Amusing: searching for "Slepnir" on Google gives you an ad link pointing to Ebay. Searching for "A bridge in China," as far as I can tell, does not.))

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Where have I been for six months, and why is my first post in all that time about a duck?

First, I've been dealing with my life. I'm trying to get a new job, and thinking about going to graduate school, for Museum Education in 2008. I'm trying to go out more with friends in and around Boston. I've been celebrating the first dating-anniversary of [livejournal.com profile] raxvulpine and myself (!). I've been trying to deal with my parents, who are worried about their parents and about me. I've been doing research for a essay on C.S. Lewis (the Space Trilogy are wonderful books, and are making me think about God differently than I have in a while, I think). I've been reading a lot, which is a wonderful rediscovered pleasure. I've been involved with Bryn Mawr alumnae-type official stuff for the local chapter of the Alumnae Club. I've been giving some serious thought to my relationship and ideas about God, lately, and have also been trying to keep in touch with old friends, plan trips, do origami and embroidery and probably clay sculptures again. I or one of my housemates have also been ill for a largish portion of Jan. and Feb. Oh, and two days a week I do taiji. I have also been cooking a lot.

Also, my old computer (purple Compaq, c. 1999, RIP) decided that 1 GB of new memory was more than it could handle. I have given up trying to rehabilitate it, Frankenstein-like, with new parts--it would work if I hooked it up the way it was before, but as that was so slow as to be nearly useless anyway, and I couldn't play movies or CDs, I decided to save the hard drive and basically scrap the rest, waiting for the end of the year to (hopefully) buy a new laptop. So, I end up using a kind of dying old laptop loaner. [Note: this problem has been somewhat fixed, as I can now access my files through a windows machine, and I'm slowly working on setting it all up the way I want.]

Thirdly, I type all day at work. When I get home, I don't want to, and in some cases can't manage to make myself, type for another two hours.

Fourth--and this is the important one--I find my life changing. For most of my adolescence and early college years, I was a very lonely child. Now I am discovering people for the first time.
They're really interesting and fun.
This isn't to say that I don't care anymore about the internet or the people I've met through it.
It's just to say that my life is full of other things now, too, and so that's not my only or even my preferred way of making connections to people anymore.
It's kind of nice.

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