An old house on a hill over an Artesian Spring
I'm at a festival of sorts, for children, old houses, well kept, line the street, there are clowns and mimes and jugglers and there's someone with a sparkler...
It's some sort of children's festival, I don't know where, only that people have come from as far away as Philadelphia for it, and I'm thinking they must be perverts, only that I'm reassured they're not, it's just that good a festival...
...On the top of a small hill, my house, old, perhaps a couple of stories high, and I'm inside, upstairs, when I see the walls begin to break apart, the drywall is crumbling as if it were being eaten by ants or termites, the same patterns crumbling the walls, ...
...And I'm shouting to the people inside (the children) to get out, the house is going to collapse, it was built above an Artesian Spring and the crumbling I was seeing was the water percolating up through the drywall...
...A couple escape, the house, it falls to pieces, the drywall and walls have been entirely dissolved, a couple of people I didn't know were inside, they pick themselves up from the ground, pull aside the black plastic (Vapor barriers?), they were hidden in the walls, I check and they're OK...
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Overwhelmed...
Really, with my schedule and all it's a miracle I get anything done. And with the new addition of a social calendar I've been getting pretty much nothing done. Friend comes over for coffee, sees the same pile of tents, sleeping bags and prospecting equipment that's been piled up in the kitchen for the last 2 1/2 months, sees the desk and vacuum left splayed (unconvincingly) across the living room floor and tells me I'm deranged...she's not going to take off her boots.
...she's at the other extreme, her house, cleaned top to bottom twice a week, whether it needs it or not. Equally deranged in my books, I have the same rhythm, just yearly, and she caught me at the wrong end of the cycle. I've got to clean up, it's starting to oppress me, weigh upon my soul...
...I used to have a live in maid, gave her a room for free if she'd clean, only I wouldn't let her clean the bedroom or my desk and I refused to unpack all the boxes I had stacked in the kitchen and after a time she began to feel a bit overwhelmed herself and decided she'd prefer to pay rent and so moved out...
...and when I finish the cleaning there's the stack of paper notes by the computer, books to read, projects to complete, cleaning has always been at the low end of my priorities, and I realize that I'm starting to feel a little overwhelmed...
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Off Beat Figure Drawing
If I could draw just a little bit,...no, an awful lot better, I'd be attending these:
Link: http://www.offbeatfiguredrawing.com/
Rather more interesting models, live music, wine, and I suspect a more competent array of amateurs. Which I'm thinking might be some incentive to start practicing ... need to wire up the tDCS and get to work.
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Falling
Her boyfriend and her, they've gotten good enough they can go it alone, I can practice my skating. I've got a long ways to go. It's funny, when you first learn to skate your preoccupation is with keeping your balance and not falling down. But there's an Ice Marshall here, petite cute Asian girl, she's obviously a figure skater and trying copy a few of her moves ...
...It's to be expected, it hurts only momentarily and all pride was lost when I tied on the skates. I'll need to buy elbow, knee-pads, I suspect acquiring these moves will involve a fair bit of falling, these aren't things that can be undertaken at low velocity, the pirouettes, flying leaps, backwards skating on a single foot, some things can only be learned at speed and with a great deal of accompanying failure. Never mind, it'll keep things interesting...
...meanwhile, the Italian Girl and her boyfriend are skating together, occasionally stumbling, tumbling, tripping into one another, regaining their balance, for them, it's all about not falling.
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