The Visible Woman...January 16, 2004

When you've been doing scheduled things and, suddenly, there isn't much going on, it can be a shock or a pleasure.

I need to be here from 11 until after 1 to watch for workmen who probably won't come. Otherwise, my day is my own.

There is a danger that such a day will fall into sloth.

I don't feel like that happened, though. I got to the gym and had a reasonable workout. I was here to cover while FFP went to a meeting. I caught up the journal. (Yeah, I know, hardly an accomplishment.)

I managed to look at a bunch of WEB sites in seeking accommodations in France.

OK, maybe I didn't accomplish everything I should but I did stay busy! And the freedom from appointments and, let's face it, the almost complete freedom from workmen felt good. The only work that took place was the glass blocks (which see on the left) and measuring for the cultured marble vanity top. I know people need to work in order to finish. But it's sort of freeing when they don't work.

	suddenly free When you've been doing scheduled things and, suddenly, there isn't much going on, it can be a shock or a pleasure. I need to be here from 11 until after 1 to watch for workmen who probably won't come. Otherwise, my day is my own. There is a danger that such a day will fall into sloth. I don't feel like that happened, though. I got to the gym and had a reasonable workout. I was here to cover while FFP went to a meeting. I caught up the journal. (Yeah, I know, hardly an accomplishment.) I managed to look at a bunch of WEB sites in seeking accommodations in France. OK, maybe I didn't accomplish everything I should but I did stay busy! And the freedom from appointments and, let's face it, the almost complete freedom from workmen felt good. The only work that took place was the glass blocks (which see on the left) and measuring for the cultured marble vanity top. I know people need to work in order to finish. But it's sort of freeing when they don't work.
you begin to get the ida with the glass brick in
JUST TYPING You can just do it. Bring in the garbage can and recycling container. Empty the dishwasher. Clean your dishes. Make a call that needs to be made.
		Food Diary. *breakfast* couple of cups of coffee *lunch* about ten crackers with Brillat Savarin cheese four pieces of turkey bacon green onions *snacks* none dinner [34th Street Cafe] 1/2 bottle of Penfold's Shiraz Mouvedre Seared Tuna with accompaniments lamb and raisin stuffed chile relleno with rice and a cream sauce bites of FFP's coconut cake Today I - really enjoyed the cheese and crackers at lunch but I porobably shouldn't have done it.
Meta: I am back to, more or less, real time. Good thing because I forget what food and exercise I did relatively fast.		Time flies.... FFP is up early to rescue the paper from the rain because it has an article his dad wrote and his picture in it. He is back from the club before I get up. I am home by 10:30. A guy is putting in the glass blocks. Somehow I liked the old kind that were mortared in the traditional way. I work on the journal, do some e-mail, make reservations for stuff we want to do. I fix a snack for lunch and a guy comes to measure for the vanity. I catch up the journal. I surf for Paris stuff and talk to a friend about the trip. I am eager to go out when FFP wants to and we go in a rain and come back in a deluge to eat at 34th Street.

		Reading. Newspapers. Dear General: Eisenhower's Wartime Letters to Marshall edited and annotated by Jospeh P. Hobbs. The Conquerers by Michael Beschloss...in bed.
		nothing
		Exercise forty-five minutes on recumbent bike some abs and lower back exercises fifteen minutes on the treadmill
	. .	113/60 78 I'm in a good mood. I have lots of little things to handle but I'm not feeling too bad about accomplishing things.
	It's a Tangled Web we weave...these days of our lives.	One year ago "Several times today, I felt as if I'd just awakened and found myself wherever I was. I felt weird and disconnected. I don't know if this is a result of having so few obligations and making the decisions about what to do with every minute. Is this a retirement 'effect?'" Two years ago "But I don't really object to people trying to use chemicals to get themselves where they want to be. It's just that endorphins and other brain chemistry accidents seem to work better for me. And caffeine and alcohol, of course.".