Updates ...

Update to my post from 10/19 -- no email this year.  First time in five years.  I hope that he has found happiness.  A friend (thanks PM) sent me this on that day and I thought I'd share it.

"I read your blog this morning and want to respond with borrowed words from John O ‘Donohue (I think we are related thru some clan inbreeding):

Try as best you can, not to let

The wire brush of doubt

Scrape from your heart

All sense of yourself

And your hesitant light.



If you remain generous,

Time will come good;

And you will find your feet

Again on fresh pastures of promise,

Where the air will be kind

And blushed with beginning.


You better be trying your weird on. DC in less than 2 weeks!"

Yeah, PM, you made my day with that -- thanks friend.  You rock.  See ya in DC next week.  I've done my part to prepare the city for our arrival :) Dubliner -- Be Warned!
 
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The food at Farmer's Market was as good as I'd remembered.  Their coconut cream pie rocks ... ate half yesterday and finished the rest for breakfast.  Yeah, breakfast ... coconut is a fruit, right?  cream is milk?  crust is bread?  see where I'm going with this ...
 
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Working on a project for work (grant database) and essays for grad school.  Add in a stats mid-term and you've got a pretty good handle on why I need to behave myself this week.  *sigh*
 
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Yesterday was a rough work day -- had to lock myself in my office to avoid displaying 'career limiting behaviors' -- probably a good move on my part. 6 months.  6. Freaking. Months.