26 July
Got to work yesterday, and the b'loon was flopped over on my desk.
"This b'loon has fallen too fast!"
"Just like our stock!"
"Then, it's an appropriate b'loon to be given away at the stock option meeting after all!"
God, what a gorgeous day it was yesterday. Unbearably lovely, so beautiful that I actually took a whole hour's lunch and spent it laying on the grass in that little dot of a park on the corner of 9th.
Apparently, the rain that everyone was so hysterical about the other day actually broke the heat after all. I'm sorry I doubted you, weather people! Though I really could have done without the "It's a-comin'! It's a-comin'!" horseshit on the radio, but I'd put up with mounds of that stuff in order to get another day like yesterday.
The Raccoon takes half a day off every Thursday this summer to pick her daughter up from camp, which means that the rest of us have taken a half day off every Thursday as well.
Okay, not really, but we sure did yesterday! I don't think anyone got a single thing done after 1.30p or so, I certainly know that I didn't. I mean, normally I have something pressing to take care of, and I work like a beaver while everyone else just stuffs their thumbs up their asses and spins around, but I had not alot that needed doing immediately, it was a beautiful day, I was feeling a little dopey and dreamy, and the boss was gone, so I wrote a couple of entries, I checked my email, I did the minimum amount of work that I could get away with.
Besides, The Raccoon will be on vacation next week, so I'll be working an insane amount then, I deserve a bit of a rest now.
I watched Places in the Heart the other night, my God I had forgotten how much I love that movie. Actually, that's not true, I remembered exactly how much I loved that movie, I just didn't remember all of the reasons why.
I had forgotten that astonishing last scene, and those wonderful children, who looked and sounded like real regional kids--and after my recent experience with a child actor, it's pretty amazing that I can appreciate a child's performance at this time!
And Malkovich, who was robbed of an Oscar, and Danny Glover, and Ed Harris and Amy Madigan, and my beloved Terry O'Quinn, whom I think I hadn't heard of when the film came out. And Sally Field, whose performance has been overshadowed by her famous Oscar speech.
What a well-scripted film. What a well-directed film. What a well-shot film. What a treat to watch.
Wahoo! At last, at last, Ty Robert has arrived! Welcome to the world, little one. You sure lucked out in the parents department.
Today's
horoscope:
You could feel very scattered and overwhelmed today as you try to be all things to all people. It is not your job to do EVERYTHING!
One year ago today:
Today we will probably be stringing the engineers up by their entrails, and I don't want to miss that, so I'm off.
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