Category: Everyday
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Idleisms (which became: Out of balance)
Butt In Chair: the great injunction for writers (okay, perhaps not as great as ‘Done Is Good’, as it’s a bit less presentable in mixed company – whatever that means these days) from Susan M. I am in my chair today, having moved myself and computer from the living room, where the increasingly beaten-up couch,…
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Fall back
I love getting that hour back in the fall, when the clocks return to ‘real’ time. It’s silly, I suppose – living up here in the north, where by late October the night has eaten more than half the day anyway (official dawn-to-dusk is now eleven hours, and in December that will go down to…
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Against junk; and a small panic
I’m bothered by the amount of junk in my life – by which I don’t mean anything that Bukowski or Burroughs would talk about – but more like what’s meant by junk mail, junk television… junk yard dogs. Well not exactly that last one, but you know what I’m saying. Over the years my reading…
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That weird humming
Every year my neighbors change – this is an area with lots of students, some of whom are a bit unpredictable. I’ve never had a real disaster (as V– seems to have this year, with loud music from upstairs), but some of the changes are a bit, well, peculiar. For instance: I keep being awake…
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You May Have Won
Well that’s odd. After mentioning answering Winning Lottery spam e-mails yesterday, I keep receiving them today – the spammers couldn’t possibly be reading this, could they?…. Or perhaps there’s a truly amazing new generation of bots – ah, the development of technology. Either way, I’m wondering about the repercussions of public exposure. Yet again….
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Changeable
The weather is changeable, and… so am I. (Hmm, another version of a phrase I’ve used before.) Chilly but bright autumn days; then dark gray days that move into winter. And I’m similar – I did finish editing the three articles; a mixture of satisfaction and mild frustration (the third article is from ten years…
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Interspersed
Overlapping experiences: • have had a cold for three days, groggy and sniffling (sniveling? – that always seemed to be a different sound of course); every once in a while my face crinkles up, I mumble ‘damn’, and sneeze to one side or the other. • the weather is gray and increasingly wintry, but •…
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Through the mazes
I continue to respond to the summer and its work in a rather murky and unsatisfying way. The weather has moved quite firmly from hot to chilly, and gray to boot (not ‘grey’, it’s not that subtle). I have piles of things that need to be done, but plenty of time to do them –…
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Cooler heads
Over the past couple of days the temperature has been dropping; today it is actually cold – raining, gray. Not miserable though; there’s a light behind the clouds, and it all just feels cool, refreshing; the mild autumn chill (yes, I know, in August? – well, this is northern Europe, near the North Sea) is…
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Living badly
Yesterday: left the apartment so that the cleaner could take over; had lunch at a nearby Italian restaurant. Ended up eating too much, eating wrong, feeling terrible – exhausted at the end of the day. The patterns: bad eating, no exercise, television, Internet – by the time I woke this morning I was so angry…
Paul Attinello 