8:00 Wednesday night

This evening, in the car in front of me, there was a little white poodle. I could just see his head, and he was clearly very VERY happy to be riding in the car. He kept running to the window and peering out, then dancing around on the seat. Wouldn’t it be nice to be...

Duck Duck Goose

Ok, here’s another thing about the workshop I went to on Sunday: we were talking about Chakras. Do you know about Chakras? You should at least know that they’re different energy fields in your body. There are seven of them, plus a few more over your head. It’s just a...

monday night

i had approximately 17 minutes of rehearsal tonight. actually, a few more minutes, because after we all sang the “can of beans” song, we sat around while the woman who plays elizabeth sang a song with the guys. her part consists of singing “today i’m...

here at panera on friday afternoon…

a couple of old guys just wanted me to look up “inert material” on askjeeves.com. doesn’t inert mean that it’s dead? like “inert gases?” they were talking about some bomb stuff that had been found or something and that it was “inert...

a little bit of everything on wednesday

my plan was to just stay in bed today, but i decided to get up. i’m not sure why. maybe because it’s so beautiful outside. but i was really, really enjoying sleeping. i hurt my hand swimming today. this is the same hand with the weird, painful bruise on it. as i swam,...

lots of activity today

here’s the first photo taken today at the GRAND OPENING CELEBRATION for the abraham lincoln museum. i took many, many photos, and will eventually show you some more. me and four lincolns ok, wait, here’s a couple more of them, while i’m at it: our president snipers...

first night of rehearsal

this was the first night of “paint your wagon” rehearsals. let me just say that the play is a little weird. the leading man, ben, buys a wife from a mormon guy who has two wives who don’t get along so well. and after a while, ben, who has appeared to be...

friday the 15th of april

and a beautiful day it is, sunny, warm, perfect. life is good. if you live here in spfld, have you listened to the NEW 93.9 fm, ABE RADIO? i think the call letters are wabz. right now they’re playing TEN THOUSAND SONGS IN A ROW, commercial free. every time i turn on...

the night before tax day…

ok, i’m pretty sure this is where this blog started LAST YEAR. how is it possible that i’ve been writing this a whole year now? how? anyway, i just want you to know that tomorrow afternoon there will be new GRACEUNCENSORED FLYERS out and about in spfld, so please go...

wednesday night

i was going to go to sleep at 9:18, but not yet, i just want to write a little first. today was historic for me. i ran for an hour and a half, the longest i’ve ever run in my life. it wasn’t bad, actually, except that after about an hour, my knees started to hurt. but...

made it through monday…

i finally, finally got to sleep at about 4:30. and woke up at 7:30, and was the 62nd person in line for the museum opening gala celebration. and, because of my perserverance, i got two fancy blue tickets. they were giving away 200 blue tickets, which means that you...

surly at 3:35 a.m.

i can’t think of a more surly time than the middle of the night on sunday. i woke up at 2. kept thinking that surely, SURELY, i’d fall back asleep, because i was lying here feeling very tired. i had a busy day. well, i went running for a long time, anyway. by three, i...

saturday afternoon, blonde

i was on the highway driving home this afternoon, and i roared past a semi. the driver honked at me, and as i looked in the rearview mirror, he waved, and then blew me a kiss. i attribute this to my newly-blonde hair, which i’m getting more used to every day. and it’s...

thursday night…

…but wait, what happened to wednesday? i meant to write yesterday, but somehow the time slipped away. here’s one more glamour photo from the play: leaping about That’s one of my especially graceful moments, in full professional high-quality ballet regalia. WHEW,...

tuesday night

if i don’t have a plan, i get nothing done. i got nothing done tonight. i got the cd of the cast photos from “you can’t take it with you” in the mail today. 263 photos. that’s a lot of photos. if i knew how to do it, i could put some of them in some kind...

the agony of defeat…

first, i’d just like to note that on sunday, when i posted that photo of my legs, my plan was to walk around and find a bunch of different images of spring, and put them all up here. instead, i was too lazy, and only managed to take the photo of my legs because they...

Sunday, April 3rd, 2005, 4:42 p.m.

Here I’ll sit… I’m sitting here on the dock, it’s sunny and gorgeous and I’m going to stay here till the end of October. I’m writing this by hand, and when I have to go type it into the computer I’ll be annoyed because I won’t be able to read my own writing. But...

friday!

how about that? you wait long enough, and friday gets here, every single week, it seems like. my day is done, not really a “work” day, but a few work activities, then some work-like activities were accomplished. i printed out my new column and took it...