June 12 2009 Word at Random Spoken

After days of hard work I have flushed my mind of thought with about four hours of an interesting puzzle-like game on the xbox. The time just vanished. Now I'm thinking about a cup of coffee in the morning and a sit on my front porch with more of that Lovecraft stuff, and humming the Shostakovitch piece we marched in high school (probably because I'm in the middle of a short novel called something like A Day in the Life of Ivansomething-or-other name in a language that reminds me of Russian music.) I spent all my paycheck on a double-family trip to the movies, so I can't buy the veggies this weekend I want to plant, but I might be able to pull off a file thing to help with the cleanup of all that teaching stuff in the other room. Maybe I'll make some fruit drinks for tomorrow afternoon, with frozen grapefruit and limeade. I really don't feel like thinking about today or yesterday or organizing my thoughts at all. I'm quite pleased with my current state of mind.

I worked early this morning, after a half-hour drive to Palisade. I took the highway, which I've never done on my own before (reminder to all this is only part-way through year 2 of me having a license.) The Mercury drives at highway speeds better than the Mercedes, but there's no comparison of the handling. The Mercedes part was picked up this morning so I get it back sometime next week. Teaching went well, but I botched up the invoice. It was early when I wrote it. I was not awake. My younger student and I had fun; I love it when she's in a good mood. Her learning curve is way steeper than when school was in. I prepped for her all morning. The disorganization of my thought is seeping through in my writing, so I'll leave my assessment of the morning there.



I went outside and took a few pictures of some random things. I looked at the photos after I had done the above writing, so I chose this picture of the Mercury-Mercedes face-off.