made of lose
Nov. 15th, 2007 02:31 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ravenThere is a world map in my kitchen. It's any old projection, any number of crumpled edges, and it's battered and well-used, well-loved. Every night, every day, there will be some conversation in that kitchen about places we've been, places we're going to go, and then someone, sometimes me, lots of times not, jumps up and traces an index finger along a journey, carries us with it forwards into time and space.
Today: me, Chinese foreign policy which I am still not finished with at 2.38am and subsequent inability to get out of bed; Claire hasn't done her exam questions; Maria is reduced to making wee models of cholera bacteria out of jellybeans, the others are worring about economics and iridium, there is woe.
And? The map has fallen down. How's that for a metaphor?
It is very, very cold outside, and absolutely still. I hadn't realised, but it's three degrees below, and rather lovely and I wish I were not filled with woe. As Claire says, it is beyond fail: everything is made of toilets.
Anyway, whilst I sit here and woefully fail at Chinese foreign policy, this is something I meant to post before and forgot: Pretty Bird Woman House, a women's shelter in South Dakota which I've written about before in here, has been torched. They're soliciting donations and it's a particularly noble and relevant cause. A meme very much worth propagating.
Back to work.
Today: me, Chinese foreign policy which I am still not finished with at 2.38am and subsequent inability to get out of bed; Claire hasn't done her exam questions; Maria is reduced to making wee models of cholera bacteria out of jellybeans, the others are worring about economics and iridium, there is woe.
And? The map has fallen down. How's that for a metaphor?
It is very, very cold outside, and absolutely still. I hadn't realised, but it's three degrees below, and rather lovely and I wish I were not filled with woe. As Claire says, it is beyond fail: everything is made of toilets.
Anyway, whilst I sit here and woefully fail at Chinese foreign policy, this is something I meant to post before and forgot: Pretty Bird Woman House, a women's shelter in South Dakota which I've written about before in here, has been torched. They're soliciting donations and it's a particularly noble and relevant cause. A meme very much worth propagating.
Back to work.
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on 2007-11-15 03:19 am (UTC)I'm sorry about the woe. *hugs*
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on 2007-11-15 04:05 am (UTC)*deep breaths* Can do this. Yes, I can. Have to be up at ten. WOE.
Good luck good luck! I am sure you will be more efficient than me and be done before four in the morning! I have much faith in you.
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on 2007-11-15 06:49 am (UTC)I... am so not going to be done by four in the morning. Paper is half done at just over eight pages. Upper page limit is seven pages. *weeps*
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on 2007-11-15 03:28 am (UTC)no subject
on 2007-11-15 10:21 am (UTC)no subject
on 2007-11-15 07:58 am (UTC)The map! The map!
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on 2007-11-16 03:31 am (UTC)no subject
on 2007-11-15 10:22 am (UTC)Come and have lunch at 1. *throws glitter* Je t'aime.
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on 2007-11-16 03:32 am (UTC)no subject
on 2007-11-15 01:21 pm (UTC)Hanging right next to it is a big map of New Zealand. I therefore have three images of home on my wall. This makes me unreasonably happy.
...It's possible that I might be homesick.
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on 2007-11-16 03:33 am (UTC)