white noise

5 minutes ago there was a thought in my head...it suggested that i blog since it's been a while and a lot happened this week. now i'm sitting here staring at the screen and i hear nothing but the whir of my computer and the muffled hum of passing traffic. if a pin were dropped in the recesses of my brain, i would hear it.

an image is just now slowly coming into focus in my mind: a pink flowering tree with branches supple and long like a willow, visible outside a window at work. and with the image a word: whimsical. that's it.

nothing else...nothing. God is good. i like nothing. if you've never had this type of experience, i highly recommend it. i'm almost afraid to move for fear of my mind coming back to the din of life.

a great day for rain

i'm actually quite happy that it is raining today. you see, my parents arrived home from florida yesterday which means i have lost my spot in the garage. in a normal household, rain would do nothing to alleviate this situtation and in fact would often make things worse: having to go to the car would mean a walk in the rain. however, at my house a white car sitting outside is so much safer if it is raining. why? rain discourages bees from flying, thus the amount of little yellow and brown specs (fondly known as bee poop) will be much less in these conditions. i am buying a car cover first thing...

week: long or short?

so this weekend i had a lot of fun rekindling old friendships and dedicating some time to "newer" ones. but as with all weekends, if you're having fun they are definitely going by too fast. you'd think the opposite would be true of the weekdays when you aren't having fun. after this week, i'm not completely sure.

this week i have been super busy, to the edge of breaking from the exhaustion. the words go, go, go, come to mind. thankfully right now i have a few moments of relief before teaching my class at penn college (spending that time writing is the only way to keep myself from falling over in a trance). i wouldn't say the week is going by fast, because i have been ready for the weekend since monday around 9am, but the days themselves are going by fast. if that makes sense.

on monday, a half hour before i usually leave work, i begged a co-worker to actually set back the clocks an hour (he wouldn't - said everyone else might like the fact they only had a half-hour left of work). all week has been like that...too much to do and too little time to do it in. and yet i can still grimace while making the statement, "it's only thursday"

a slight disappointment leads to something marvelous...

yesterday i was kind of bummed to find out that our post office closes at 4:30, cuz that meant i had to hold onto a package (that i had been attempting for some time to get rid of) for another day.

therefore, today just before lunch i found myself driving into bloomsburg to visit the post office and rid myself of the pkg. as i came out of the post office, it occurred to me that i had put a quarter in the meter, so i might as well pick up lunch in town while the car was thus happily situated. while walking across the street to la fontana, i noticed the beauty of the day...not chilly at all! anyway, i picked up my pizza and started back for my car with the full intention of eating my lunch in the office - my recent workload doesn't play well with the word "lunchbreak" . somewhere during that walk of a block and a half, the sun peeked out of the clouds and i fell in love with the idea of eating outside (screw the pile of work on my desk). tons of options came to mind, but none quite as tempting as driving down to the park...once there, i sat on a piece of playground equipment, eating my pizza and basking in the remnants of sunhine.

it wasn't as warm as when the sun had been showing off its glory, but i decided to stick it out and enjoy the outdoors. sadly, after my first piece of pizza i could stay no longer, for as i listened to the sounds of nature, nature called me personally. :)

it was nice while it lasted. and hey, had i not had to go to the post office, i would have never seen the sun!

the aftermath

wednesday i thought i lost my cell phone - i frantically looked for it for 3 whole minutes until i went to pick something up and couldn't because my phone was in my hand the entire time - apparently i had been searching with only one hand (thankfully i can blame my mental lapse on the anesthesia from the egd i had an hour before)

egd results - i'm not mental!!! i do have a slight esophageal problem

crazy busy at work...not the week to take a day off for the endoscope, but relaxing all day wednesday was lovely