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Happy anniversary to me. Today is our third wedding anniversary. Got a big gift card as a thank you present and we're going to go blow it on wine and appetizers and dessert! Whoohoo!

Not much else to report. Stephanie's been studying all day and I've been doing odds and ends and reading The Tipping Point.

It's hot today. Real hot. I have too much of the Scottish Highland blood. I don't deal well with heat. I don't deal well with much when there is heat. Even if we had AC in the house it wouldn't be in the budget to run it. I hope I don't melt.

The mural is coming along nicely. The artist seems to be happy with...
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No Train To Stockholm

One night Johnny sang the truth to me
on an unknown bound train from Tennessee.
Taught me all the letters in alone
Singing freedom is what you think it is,
but there ain't no train to Stockholm.
Received your invitation to the war.
I sent it back, so please don't send no more.
I'd rather lie in some jail all alone....
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I'm becoming a muralist! In my struggle to combat all of the things that eat at my mind and make me freak out about my current life and commitment, I've been volunteer a lot of time working on a mural that a friend of mine was commissioned to do on a community center in a near by town. It's a 20x50 wall so it is...
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I'm finally getting the panics of homeownership. We bought the house last November and now I'm just getting to the point of wanting to flee. I love the house but when I think about the mortgage and such, I also think about how much traveling I could be doing, and how much different my life might be right now, this summer, if I didn't feel...
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My real job is done for a few months now. I start a quick four day gig this morning, then I'm in a lot of trouble. I need to find something for next week. I hate the stress of job hunting. It gets in the way of so many things. I just want to be able to show up and do whatever thing I'm supposed...
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Why am I awake at 6:45 in the morning? Last day of school yesterday. Began drinking at 1:00 pm. Went home at 1:00 am. A good time was had by all. But mass quantities of booze and beer were consumed. The ice luge was a hit. The beirut table of course was busy. But now I'm awake. not sick. Just awake.

I suck at sleeping.

Tomorrow is graduation. I am really proud of so many of my students. But it is always a hard time for me. I know that I am part of what is soon to be their history. They will move on and go out into the world and if I am lucky I will hear from time to time how they are doing. Yet, they are...
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Ah it continues. I suck at sleeping. There seems to be no end to the ways in which I am really just bad at seeping If I am able to get to sleep, I don't usually stay asleep. Then there are the times where I just don't fall asleep. Then there are nights like last night. I read for a while and then got really...
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Maybe I'll learn to play a new song today. I'm feeling a pull towards the classic blues of the delta.

There has been so much tying of loose ends lately that I don't know what to write about. I feel like there is so much going on that I just am not sure where to begin. Or if I should bother to begin at all....
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