There and Back Again

Pondering: Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else. (James M. Barrie)
For the last three weeks, I feel like I’ve been living off of a suitcase.  After awhile it gets a little boring and tiring.  I miss my bed, I miss my own bathroom, I miss my own car, I miss my [...]

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Pondering: Here is a lesson in creative writing. First rule: Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. All they do is show you’ve been to college. (Kurt Vonnegut)
On my trip to Austin, TX last weekend to attend the 3-day Austin City Music Festival, I brought with me a copy of Ian [...]

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Pondering: When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him. (Thomas Szasz)
My good friend and co-worker Dina and I went to lunch yesterday to talk about the upcoming performance evaluation of three of the seven managers she directly and I inidirectly manage. (Just noticed how [...]

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Pondering: I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end. (Margaret Thatcher)
My 920 AM flight to San Francisco from Las Vegas has been grounded and won’t fly out until 1130 AM. Fuck, fuck, fuck! I am staying positive despite the delay but my patience is waning. To think [...]

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Pondering: Everybody likes to go their own way–to choose their own time and manner of devotion. (Jane Austen)
One of our many stops today was St. Colman’s Cathedral in Cobh, Co. Cork, Ireland. My sister and I went inside the cathedral to have a look at the altar, the windows and the overall architecture. [...]

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Spanish captain Iker Casillas and teammates celebrate after winning the UEFA EURO 2008 final between Germany and Spain at the Ernst Happel stadium in Vienna, Austria. (Image: © Daniel Dal Zennaro/epa/Corbis)

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Pondering: Aging is not ‘lost youth’ but a new stage of opportunity and strength. (Betty Friedan)
I am trying to get into the new Coldplay CD which I have been so excitied about for the past few weeks and it’s taking awhile. There are definitely songs that I instantly fell in love with - Lost [...]

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Pondering: Tears fall in my heart like the rain on the town. (Paul Verlaine)
Showtime’s The Tudors Season 2 ended with a bang… I mean with a beheading. Poor little Anne Boleyn’s bad karma came full circle in tonight’s episode and her little head left her body while her father abandoned her and her husband [...]

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Pondering: When people meet me I think they’re surprised to find out I’m not always angst-ridden. (Martin L. Gore)
This one just cracked me up. Isn’t this just adorable?

Truly a replica of Martin L. Gore’s looks circa Playing the Angel tour in 2006. This gal created this and posted more pics in [...]

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Pondering: “Take everything you like seriously, except yourself.” (Rudyard Kipling)
Listening to: And Your Bird Can Sing (The Beatles)
For the first time ever in my thirty four years of existence, I rode the ferris wheel. Pathetic, some would say. I’ve been on many rides but never the ferris wheel. I remember long time [...]

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