Buchaknow, at times like these, all the memories of teachers who disliked me, the friends who excluded me, the scoldings, the (perceived) slights came back like a bad animation, and I felt I was a terrible person. Funny how good news and compliments really do roll off my back. And thank goodness I had the presence of mind not to cancel spending time with good friends, too; their presence and words got me out of the rut, and reassures me there's nothing wrong in choosing friends wisely.
I was/am going through a Keanu Reeves binge on the DVD-hire/rental front and saw Thumbsucker one day. I didn't like the film much but the interview between the novel writer Walter Kirn and director Milke Mills was fascinating I watched it two and a half times, and I listened to a bunch of Walter Kirn interviews. I was so relieved to discover there were other chronological-grown-ups who (im)patiently waited to become the adult person s/he felt s/he was meant to be.
Meanwhile, I finished one cashmere scarf which was half woven and left neglected for months; it's the first piece in the last Log Cabin warp, I think, but the two navy warps are so close in color, size and texture I can't tell the difference. I just remember using two "different" cones, and I rarely have two cones of the same yarns of cashmere. I'm thinking of rethreading it in an undulated twill or some such and joy-weaving the next four.
I put the purple warp (second photo, middle) on the big loom; I don't know what exactly I'll do but I'm thinking of swirly network twill of some description. I've seen enough of them and don't feel excited by them at the moment, but looking at what's available at the Suter Gallery shop, I thought they would look different from anything else, (my other stuff included,) so I think I'm on the right track.
Ben had a week off but it rained the whole week so we splurged on plants, hoping to do something about our place, again, this winter. Right on queue, Monday was a lovely still day and I gardened a couple of hours, followed by another hour and a half on Tuesday. I felt a wee ting on left wrist on Monday, but by Tuesday lunchtime the tings had spread to both wrists and elbows. I didn't garden Wednesday or Thursday but made the mistake of reading blogs on Thursday and made it worse by not using the mouse but fiddling with the tiny touch pad. I couldn't think of anything interesting I could do at home, so yesterday I went into town to run errands and saw two movies, but the familiar dry, white feeling on my muscles are definitely bad. Darn. (She types as she confesses.)
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One more nasty: I got rung by the hoax "Windows services" (they never say Microsoft when they ring me) four times in three days and the last time I freaked out because they knew my name.
The very first time "Simon" rang I told him I had a bad connection and could I ring them back, whereby he turned nasty and threatening without giving any numbers so I hung up. Since then I hung up every time.
The last time, though, I was annoyed but not impatient, and pretended to be an idiot/deaf/clueless old lady until "Simon" hung up on me.
Ben read in the local paper a couple of nights later that these idiots rang the Richmond Police Station. I haven't had any calls since, but then I don't answer unless/until folks start to talk to my answering machine.
In the TV news, they reported that some folks were threatened in a rather nasty, unspeakable ways. Crikey.
Isn't that bizarre, as well as horrible! Why would anyone want to make such calls? I don't understand anyone, including myself, but I especially don't understand rubbish like that.
I generally like reading your thoughts, and on some days if I don't want to I can just move on. I don't see it as paying out, just sorting out your thoughts. More tricky for people who might think they are directly involved. It would be nice if they responded in some way, on the blog or directly - a conversation can clear up a lot of misunderstandings if people focus on listening hard.
The scam is some sort of a big-scale scam to get money off of you, like many other similar ones, Judy. Maybe it's a NZ-unique one? I contacted Microsoft and they didn't want to know.
I don't find a lot of people around me who like discourses; perhaps I like it more than others because I was a philosophy major until I discovered I had enough credits to graduate if I switched to English major and discourse is all we did. Or perhaps I speak harshly. I do get excited, though, during discourses: I smell the vapor of minds working collectively and doing more than the sum of individual minds, and get high on it.
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