Thursday, February 23, 2012

This Is What Happens When You Go To Bed With Sylvia Plath

Imagine my surprise!  After all these years of good intentions I finally borrow a copy of The Bell Jar (or should it be "The Bell Jar"?  I can never remember.) and dive right in.  Not scary at all!  Yippee!  And it didn't make me any more suicidal than usual.  I loved the way Plath combined words.  I've got to return the book today; so I can't find any examples.  Not sure I'm brave enough to try the poetry.  Definitely going to check out some biographical stuff.  I wonder what her Mom was so afraid of.

Imagine my surprise!  Thursday today.  I had almost totally convinced myself that it was Wednesday.  Garbage guy at six thirty was my first clue that I was mistaken.  Pills B and C come in a dated, plastic dispenser pack and they both had Thursday as the next dose.  DJ teacher posted song of the day which he faithfully does the morning of his radio broadcast; so I admitted it was /IS Thursday.

Imagine my surprise!  I did NOT miss my Darling Middle Daughter's birthday!  I crafted a card of real card stock and intentional stickers.  I had made another vow not to buy into the corporate/Hallmark/holiday thing.  And so I splurged on cool, colored markers, card stock, and a package of neon stickers.  Two store bought cards would have cost just about the same amount.  Since I already had envelopes I now have supplies on hand to send cards to the people I care about.  Yay me...  And I have a legitimate excuse to blog troll all the pretty paper ephemera blogs.

Imagine my surprise!  The weather is supposed to suck for the next few days.  I crave the sunshine.  I am not complaining about the lack of snow or the relative warmth of this winter season.  I know it's not an anomaly, but rather a harbinger.  We have fucked this poor planet unimaginably badly and now she is saying, "Nyah! Nyah! Nyah!"  Or maybe begging, pleading for mercy.  I tremble at what the ecosystem (is that even a term that's in use these days?) is going to hand us in the next few decades.

Today is library day.

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