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I am sitting on a pier at sunset watching a thunderstorm complex about 30/35 NE of me drift slowly east. The setting sun is illuminating the back of the anvil, and the whole thing has matured and is beginning to rain itself out. They got a heavy downpour up in Lapeer County from this one.
Aristus
(66,509 posts)"The Importance Of Being Earnest."
Classic...
discntnt_irny_srcsm
(18,483 posts)csziggy
(34,139 posts)That is one of my favorite plays!
Tobin S.
(10,418 posts)Jen is off at a work party. There was a dress code and I don't have anything in my wardrobe for the occasion that fits. Besides, my foot is in an air splint because I just about broke it last week at work. Looks nasty but it's healing.
It's good to see you this evening. How have you been?
CaliforniaPeggy
(149,766 posts)We're in NY, and tomorrow we fly to London. Our final destination is Rome.
You paint a lovely picture with your words...
Tobin S.
(10,418 posts)when you are in Rome? Wait. Is Vatican City in Rome? I'll pay you back.
CaliforniaPeggy
(149,766 posts)Yeah, the Vatican City is in Rome!
But I'm afraid those hats aren't for sale, at any price!
And you don't want to be Pope...
Chan790
(20,176 posts)I've mentioned this before but I went to The Catholic University of America, our board basically overlaps the USCCB and we're a pontifical university: we take direction directly from Rome. The chairman of our Board of Trustees when I was an undergraduate was Bernard Cardinal Law and he was in a bit of hot water--and I was at the head of the movement on campus demanding his resignation. We had no traction and a lot of student support and alumni support. So we started holding protest actions on campus and the administration started to go after us personally. The day before the semi-yearly BoT meeting, I was in the computer lab making up posters and signs on the university's tab, wearing my own mitre made out of a plastic FedEx envelope, painted and marked up, sittlng next to my bullhorn when the President of the university Fr. O'Connell walked in, so I did the only thing I could do...I stared him down dressed as the pope.
Yeah, you can make your own papal mitre, provided your head is big enough, by taking a large plastic mailer, putting it on your head with the corners in the front and the back and make a perpendicular crease running from temple-to-temple or ear-to-ear. It'll peak in the front and the back. It should retain shape once you take it off your head if you make the crease right (put it under a heavy book for a few hours to make it permanent) and you just have to paint it as you see fit. I recommend a coat of opaque white rust-o-leum to hide the printing on the bag.
csziggy
(34,139 posts)Kali
(55,027 posts)Have a great trip!!!
rug
(82,333 posts)Tenacious little bastard.
HeiressofBickworth
(2,682 posts)Reading DU -- doing a little posting.
Basically, the last two days have been a mish-mash of doing little things and then doing nothing. The rest of the family left for Fiji on Thursday so it's just me and the 4 cats at home.
My granddaughter decided on a trip to Fiji as her graduation present. Same thing her mother (my daughter) got for her graduation. She is going with one of her aunts -- my daughter went with her parents and one of HER aunts. I made some beachy clothes for my daughter for her trip and my granddaughter found them in a box and decided she wanted to wear them. I gave my daughter a diamond and sapphire ring for graduation and my daughter gave it to my granddaughter for HER graduation. It seems we started some kind of tradition.
I have a list of things I want to accomplish before they get home, which I may OR MAY NOT actually do.
Lady Freedom Returns
(14,120 posts)Sitting here @ 1:40 am 6/23/13 watching "Countdown to Zero" and playing on DU.
Denninmi
(6,581 posts)Trying to wake up so I can head to the gym, then face stopping at the store with a mountain of cans to return. My family drinks way too much pop. I must have $40 worth of returnables. I cleaned out the garage yesterday and found all if the bags I have ignored for months.
Lady Freedom Returns
(14,120 posts)I keep forgetting I might want to add the words Arizona time whenever I talk time!
Denninmi
(6,581 posts)EDT but by all rights we should be Central, our solar noon is about 40m past clock time
discntnt_irny_srcsm
(18,483 posts)...what about the Western UP where EDT puts dusk at about 10:40 PM this time of year?
I think the Western UP is almost as far West longitude of Chicago as Chicago is West of Detroit.
Bertha Venation
(21,484 posts)You paint a lovely picture. Thanks for taking me there with you.
I am sitting on my front porch, listening to the rain. I love the sound and I love how it smells. The coffee is strong and hot. I'm waiting for my guests to make their way into the day.
I love life.
NJCher
(35,807 posts)Rain....coffee...guests.
Cher
GoCubsGo
(32,100 posts)It's about all I can handle after only 4 hours of sleep.
Phil Lesh looks like such a nerd.
hobbit709
(41,694 posts)Chan790
(20,176 posts)The tea is cold, my UI just ended (yesterday), my friends are useless, I live in an employment desert (everything for 2 sq. miles is low-quality retail) in the middle of the fastest recovering state on the East Coast, I hate it here and I have no place else to go. I feel like I'm about to end up in a McJob long-term and be stuck here even longer in poverty. I do some catering on the side to raise some money but it's too irregular to live on. (If I could live off complements I'd be golden--I got compared last month to Ferran Adrià. He's arguably the best chef in the world.)
So, off-chance...anybody back homeward (CT or NYC. Screw it, I'll go to any mid-sized or larger US city at this point) looking for a brilliant creative driven problem-solver who has held every public-facing position (either professionally or as a volunteer) in the NPO sector from community organizer and activist through development director and outreach coordinator to director-level co-head-of-organization in a consensus-run organization. Also, I've been through two start-ups including tax-exempt certification. I'm a published writer and a member of two professional societies (Association of Fundraising Professionals and Public Relations Society of America). Like just about everybody here on DU, I have campaign experience, both electoral campaigns and referendums.
(I figure advertising my availability on DU can't hurt. I know we have Career Help and Advice group but I read it and I feel like everybody there is churning in the same situation I am. We need a separate jobs board here so we can leverage our collective DUness to hire each other. I'd hire off here if I were in a hiring position.)
NJCher
(35,807 posts)I haven't even finished it yet but it's an inspiration. It also tells the stories of people in "employment deserts" who have figured out income-making projects without having to go to an office.
Making a Living Without a Job by Barbara Winter
Cher
I may just buy it for myself...I have some Amazon gift cards from last Christmas still.
NJCher
(35,807 posts)She teaches you how to set up "profit centers," so that you don't become dependent on any one source of income. Your catering could be one profit center, and you'll probably come up with others.
My life is sort of set up like this. I have...hmmm...3 profit centers now, and I am setting up a 4th one.
If one falls through, another can carry you until you get a new one.
Best of all, the things you set up are fulfilling and interesting to you, as opposed to helping someone else fulfill their dream.
Cher
NJCher
(35,807 posts)With a guest pup dog sprawled on my computer room floor and a purring black cat on my shoulder. Sipping a cold raspberry tea.
Watching a movie.
Trying to get over working too hard in my gardens yesterday.
Cher
Kali
(55,027 posts)and the dogs bark, the macaw squawk (my sons are sitting up on a hill by the interstate waiting for some friends to go target shooting and the guard animals are disturbed by the truck parked up there)
and the cows and calves coming in to water bawling to each other. quite a ruckus!
elleng
(131,296 posts)12+ hours after you asked, drying off after a run through rain in MD/DC, listening to http://www.weta.org/fm/listenlive Faure now, and finishing my first cuppa.
hunter
(38,341 posts)... reading and posting on DU using an old laptop I bought broken for $10.
Everyone else in the house is asleep, even the dogs.
Nobody here works a regular "9 to 5 M-F."
ConcernedCanuk
(13,509 posts).
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watching the critters wander by
listening to the birds,
eating a meal embellished with fresh chives cut off a patch I found right outside my back door.
and posting on DU
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Inkfreak
(1,695 posts)alarimer
(16,245 posts)I have a report due July 1. And too many things going on at the office to actually get anything done.