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Happy poetry day, avid readers... I haven't found any of my own material that I'd hoped to stumble across. Hopes were set on closet cleaning and finding a stored cache folder full of old transcriptions and manuscripts. For now, I leave you with this.

Kissing - Fleur Adock

The young are walking on the riverbank,
arms around each other's waists and shoulders,
pretending to be...
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Feeling better and somewhat rested... Whereas yesterday's theme was laundry, I believe today's will be furniture. AlienPrincess is itching to go purchase new dressers and the wardrobe to match at Ikea. The involves moving stuff out, making construction space for new and moving it in place. When I arrived home from my folks' last night, she gushed the details of her plot. There was also...
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I am spent, without anything left to give, loan, or borrow. I am tired beyond anything but the spare well of language left that shall leave me when I end this entry. I have just finished working 51 hours over the past three days. I was granted 3.5 hours of sleep last night after quality time w/ SGCT'ers. Immediately upon waking I dashed to work...
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Another day of work, dictated by needs other than my own. Thursdays are what would normally be considered 'professorial office hours', a time and a place to be found usually performing paper shuffling and answering questions about it. I can, at times, use this allotment towards other things. Today I popped my head in for such reasons, checking in w/ staff & residents alike and...
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So...a proper update rather than yesterday's quickie. It was my second day off while still having to make appearances at work and around the town. There was some relative drama at the group home that required a gentle hand for smoothing over. I was also volunteered by my Mom to research Fairfield county soup kitchens contact info for my recently sentenced cousin and the 200...
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I just got finished watching the film, Standing in the Shadow of Motown. I grew up on steady streams of Motown, Stax, misc. jazz, big band & classical. How exactly I turned being a noise-landen guitarist, I don't know. According to this movie, I should have had some fantastic nickname. Growing up, the closest was "Icky:, due to my last name's pronunciation. As a...
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Not too shabby of a day at work... 'Twas a double as is tomorrow's and the day after that. Tonight though was voluntary. Friday nights at my group home are pizza and bowling. Not too bad of a way to earn overtime, eh? The usual constant of working these shifts is the residents mopping the floor w/ me at bowling. For me, it's a drunken...
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Briefest blurb of an update... At his point in time, I won't be hanging out at Flux tonight. I was enthusiastic of the prospect yesterday but I've spent the entire last day of my vacation performing favors for other people while being forced to leave no time for myself. In the rush to set-up a wireless network, de-bug two computers, pay someone else's library fines...
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Uhhhh....food....coma...setting...in.... alienprincess and I just got back from a cook-out at my parents. Tons of food for just a slight handful of people, far fewer than I'd expected. With that much good grub staring at you, it approaches being a culinary double-dare. I made a variant of greek cucumber and onion salad...one with plum tomatoes and a cilantro-yogurt dressing. AP's mom and sister came out,...
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Saturday morning, 11:31 AM - 5 hours 15 minutes of sleep received. ManRay was fantastic!!! I think the overriding comment or question that went along w/ the night was, "Was the trip up worth it?" That points out how silly it is to use distance as a barrier to visiting amazing friends. Whenever I feel skiddish or have to use that as a measured weight...
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I'm updating briefly before heading out to FLux and catching up w/ some of my favorite SGCT'ers. Vacation so far has been pretty bland. Today I had to pop my head in at work to take a quick observed re-certification test that couldn't be rescheduled. I passed w/ flying colors but it's still something I would've rather taking while working, not while I'm specifically not...
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I think work could've ended on a better note but, I am now vacating...this being my vacation and all. Work consisted of 14.5 hours of watching the clock, waiting for 11pm to strike. The first half I was along side a new staffperson who seems to be working out well. He volunteers for tons of hours, is genuinely engaged about what goes on with our...
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