The Visible Woman...April 23, 2001

Monday

April 23, 2001

"Do I contradict myself?
Very well then I contradict myself,
(I am large, I contain multitudes.)."

Walt Whitman, Song of Myself

poison ivy print

thunder busters and crawling skin

We awoke to the sharp crack of thunder. Thunderstorms are common in our part of the world. May is our rainy month and it's nearly May. (Yes, I know, April showers, but May is really a time of heavy rain here.) When it finally settled down, FFP took first the dog and then the dry cleaning to the little shopping center about a mile away which contains both Pampered Pets and Shamrock Cleaners. "I didn't want the dog and the cleaning in the same car."

Yesterday, my mother told me that she got compliments at church on her new dress and told everyone that she got it as an early mother's day present from me since I wouldn't be here. Mark one for the good guys.

Speaking up and saying what you think is contradictory to staying in the weeds and biding your time in a job. Of course, in fairness to the company, staying in the weeds would be contradictory to the job. Of course, in recent weeks I've been wondering exactly what the job is. You would, too.

My dad hasn't been feeling too well. The doctor says that is has, at least, poison ivy. I know about that from about this time last year.

FFP and I have a cold supper of pate, cheese, caviar and wine. We watch the Monday night TV programs he likes. I read some paper.

Then I fool around with Fireworks some. It baffles me in some ways. Also, I'm not sure how much I really want to do things like disjoint rollovers, slicing, dicing, animating and pop-up menus. But I am gradually figuring it out. I think. In any case, I'm staying up too late fooling with it for sure.

I had lunch at Borders. I'm always amazed at how many magazines there are and how specialized. I'm also amazed at the success of Idiot's Guides, Dummies Books, etc. Today I saw The Complete Idiot's Guide to Home Schooling. I don't know about you, but I was scared enough for these kids to start with.

I was feeling really creative today. I was thinkng up some fictional things I wanted to write and also working out how to do some work things. It remains to be seen how creative the latter were. It's one of those things where you keep thinking you are having a breakthrough but then, days later, you realize you are wrong.